Folk Dance

An event open to EVERYONE! 6.00 pm – 7.00 pm: Introduction to folk dancing ... followed by a potluck dinner where everyone brings something to eat and drink, as well as their own cutlery 8.00 pm – 8.30 pm: Children’s dance Bring your children along – they’ll kick off the folk dance with some easy dances. The children from the Giett’ School will perform a few dances with the Band’à Jana! 8.30 pm: FOLK DANCE EVENT with the Duo Balancez vos Ames Refreshments available on site. The duo BALANCEZ VOS AMES!* draws on and explores tunes that evoke a little-known Alpine musical world: the repertoire of Savoyard fiddlers. The musicians (Olivier Geay and Marina Miollany) draw primarily on collected material which they seek to showcase. Viewing this material as malleable, they blend it with their own musical ideas and inspirations to breathe new life into it, using their violins and exploring other sound sources – instruments both real and imagined, traditional and more contemporary. Other fiddle-playing traditions are not excluded, with references to Scandinavia, Panama… *The name of the duo, BALANCEZ VOS AMES !, is inspired by the call for a dance move that is very common in Savoyard quadrilles: ‘Balancez vos dames!’ (Swing your ladies!).