Teaching and Planning Committee
THE NORDIC DANCERS’ teachers collectively bring to the group decades of diverse dance experience. For some, this experience includes growing up and dancing in Nordic communities. All the teachers have participated in numerous dance courses and workshops with teachers from the Nordic countries. In addition their enthusiasm for the dances and the accompanying folk traditions strengthens their commitment to keep learning and expanding their own skills and repertoire.
The director of the Nordic Dancers is Chris Kalke and her assistant is Anja Chase. The teaching committee also includes Linda Brooks and Carol Carnahan. Lars Johanson serves as a consulting teacher. Collectively these teachers bring to the group decades of dance experience. This experience includes growing up and dancing in Nordic communities and/or participating in dance courses and workshops with teachers from the Nordic countries. In addition their enthusiasm for the dances and the accompanying folk traditions strengthens their commitment to keep learning and expanding their own skills and repertoire. We rehearse and perform to the fiddling of Paul Carlson.