Taught a two-credit hour International Folk Dance Course (HPR 100) as an adjunct instructor in the Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation (HPR) at Wright State University for thirteen years.
Danced with Zivio!, an amateur performing Yugoslav dance group in Dayton, OH.; performed with Zivio! for two weeks in a tour of Yugoslavia in 1987 (by invitation).
One of the regular teachers at the Miami Valley Folk Dance Club, Dayton, OH.; teach a wide range of dances including line, circle, individual, couple, contra, and set dances.
Lived in Sweden for two years (1999 - 2000) as a visiting professor at Uppsala University in the Department of Information Sciences; studied Swedish "polskor" (couples turning dances done to three-beat music) in my spare time.
For Swedish polska dancing: received the "Big Silver" Medal in 1999 (Sveg, Sweden) and "Diploms" in 2000 (Myrviken), 2001 (Orsa), 2003 (Orsa), 2004 (Trångsviken), 2005 (Orsa), 2006 (Trångsviken), 2007 (Orsa), and 2008 (Östersund), all from the Svenska Folkdansringen. Currently, I'm the only non-Swede to hold eight diploms.
Taught at folk dance groups/workshops in Ohio (Dayton, Columbus, Cincinnati), Virginia, Arizona, Boston (MA.), Sacramento (CA), Santa Cruz (CA), Detroit (MI.), Uppsala (Sweden), Folklore Village, WI. (spring weekend workshop 2000, midsommarfest 2007), and Fairwater (WI.).
Taught Scandinavian dances with Roo Lester in Ohio (Dayton, Cincinnati, Columbus), Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh), West Virginia (Oglebay Camp), Indiana, Kentucky (Kentucky Dance Institute, Christmas Country Dance Week in Berea 2008), Wisconsin (Folklore Village), Maine (Mainewoods Camp 1998, 2001, 2009), California (Stockton Folk Dance Camp 2001 and 2009, and the North/South Folk Dance Teacher's Seminar), and Champaign Illinois.
Taught regularly at the Columbus (Ohio) Scandinavian Dancers group for several years.
Publication: International Folk Dance as a College Course, Viltis, Vol. 51, No. 4, pages 4-5, 1992.
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