Balkan Music &
Dance Workshops

Every summer the EEFC presents two week-long summer camps. Follow the links below to read all about and register for the 2024 workshops!

Mendocino, California

June 15-22, 2024
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Iroquois Springs, New York

August 10-17, 2024
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We award full scholarships to our in-person workshops.
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The EEFC is proud to partner with sister organizations, including the Bulgarian Folk Music & Dance Seminar.

Sherman Oaks, California

Live Pontian Holiday party at Kypseli, with Niko Michailidis

December 18, 2015 at 8:30 am – 11:30 pm

Kypseli Holiday party with live Pontian music with Niko Michailidis on lyra and Vicky Hioureas on daouli.
Open Dancing with live and Greek variety recorded music.
Special mezedes and treats at our holiday table.
Admission: $15
Nikos Michailidis obtained his PhD in the department of Anthropology at Princeton, and teaches at Princeton and Rutgers Universities. His thesis is an ethnography of music-making and belonging in contemporary Turkey, focusing on the rise of the "ethnic music" phenomenon in Turkey with special interest in Karadeniz/Pontian (Black Sea) music.
Nikos has played lyra for several dance groups at past and recent HDF and FDF competitions and has recorded several CDs.

The Tango Room
4346 Mammoth Avenue
Sherman Oaks, California 91423
http://kypseli.org/styled/index.html