MIT International Dance Club, MIT Student Center, Lobdell Hall

We will start with the live music by Pajdashi who just returned from a tour in Croatia including performances at the Zagreb International Folk Festival. We will rehearse some well-known dances from the northern regions of Croatia (Slavonija, Zagorje, Podravina, etc.) and will follow with teaching of the dances from the Croatian Mountain Region as well as from Dalmatia.  Mr. Bagur, will teach the dances and show similarities, as well as different styles in various regions. Some dances will be accompanied by Pajdashi, and some will be without instruments. 

BACKGROUND ON THE VISITING AUTHOR/ETHNOLOGIST: Mr. Bagur is one of the leading ethnologists and ethno-choreographers in Croatia, whose work spans over four decades of researching and preserving the culture  from the Adriatic and Mountain Folk regions in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Over the years, he has thought numerous dancers in several Summer Schools of Folklore in Croatia and abroad. He created several choreographies for Lado. Mr. Bagur collaborates with the Croatian Heritage Association on many research projects, has been an advisor to the Zagreb International Folk festival and works closely with Croatian Radio Television on creating ethno-documentaries, some of which have received international recognition. Mr. Bagur is an avid photographer whose artistic recordings of ethno life have been exhibited at the Ethno Museum in Zagreb, http://www.emz.hr/pdf/deplian_vido_bagur.pdf, and published in many books, some via Croatian Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research http://www.ief.hr/Publications/tabid/114/agentType/ViewType/TypeID/14/Default.aspx.