Saturday September 21, 2024

Dance workshop with

Lee Otterholt

 Lee Otterholt, born in the US of Norwegian-American parents, lived and worked most of his life in Norway as a professional dancer, dance teacher and choreographer. The last 20 years Lee Otterholt has been active on the international scene, teaching international folk dance (“Balkan and Beyond”) at festivals, workshops and camps in Europe, the US and Asia and leading folk dance cruises and tours to many parts of the world.

He moved to the US, to Laguna Beach, California in 2003.  There he founded and led the international folk dance performing group “SYRTAKI,” and he is the lead singer in the BalkanBeat band “Zimzala.”  He teaches regularly at local folk dance clubs in the area and teaches his own recreational folk dance group every Wednesday and Sunday evening at Laguna Woods.  He is the chairman of the Laguna Folk Dance Festival.  In 2015 he received the National Dance Award, presented at the San Antonio Folk Dance Festival.

His workshops here in Albuquerque have been some of the most fun, varied  and memorable of all. We are so glad to have him for

ONE NIGHT ONLY!

It’s our regular dance night, so we hope to see everyone come out and learn dances together.

For More About Lee, visit
http://www.leeotterholt.com/