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 from 1980 to 1994.
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 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), and 2004 (Trångsviken), all from the Svenska Ungdomsringen för Bygdekultur.
Taught at folk dance groups/workshops in Dayton, Columbus, Cincinnati, Virginia, Arizona, Boston, Wisconsin (Folklore Village), and Uppsala, Sweden.
Taught Scandinavian dances with Roo Lester in Ohio (Dayton, Cincinnati, Columbus), West Virginia (Oglebay Camp), Indiana, Kentucky (Kentucky Dance Institute), Wisconsin (Folklore Village), Maine (Mainewoods Camp), and California (Stockton Folk Dance Camp, North/South Folk Dance Teacher's Seminar).
Publication: International Folk Dance as a College Course, Viltis, Vol. 51, No. 4, pages 4-5, 1992.
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