I have been doing Israeli dancing since September, 1955. (That was at age minus 2. At least, that's what I tell people). That was when I started going to a Hebrew High School in Rochester, NY, twice a week: Sunday mornings and Mondays after regular high school. I was asked to be in a performing group and performed during my high school years. In 1959, after graduating from high school, I was pronounced old enough to join the International Folk Dance group, and caught that bug as well. In 1963, I attended Blue Star Israeli Dance Camp directed by Fred Berk, who was a great inspiration as a dance teacher. I have attended dance weekends every year since then to 'keep up' my repertoire and for just plain fun. Because there was not an Israeli group at the time in Rochester, NY, I started one in Sept, 1963.

In Sept, 1966 I moved to Pittsburgh, PA, where I joined the International Dance Group there and eventually became its main instructor for the last 3 years I was there (I left in Sept., 1972). Because there was no Israeli group there either, I started one in Sept, 1968. While in Pittsburgh, I performed with several groups at the Pittsburgh International Folk Festival, including Israeli, Russian,and Hungarian. In 1971, I choreographed the Israeli group's performance

I lived in Israel for three and a half years (Nov, 1972 - June, 1976) doing not only Israeli dances but co-instructing an International group in Jerusalem that became nationally famous, because we did Balkan dances with the Balkan styling that is familiar here in the States.

In 1976, I moved back to the States, back to Rochester, NY, for a year and a half. I rejoined the folk dance groups there that I had left 10 years previously. I also was recruited for Da Igramo, the then new International folk dance performing group.

In 1978, I moved to Connecticut and eventually became the leader of the Hartford International Folk Dance group, which I led for 15 years until the group became too small to continue. During that time, I eventually became the choreographer for the Monday Night International Folk Dance group (which eventually had to move to Tuesday nights, and then to Thursday).

In 2001, I moved to Raleigh, NC, and have been dancing International and Israeli here ever since.

In 1991, I explored the new (for me) area of videotaping a dance camp in order that I might have a visual record of the dances taught for future review. In 1996, I was asked to video the teaching at, of all places, Blue Star and to offer the video for sale to the participants in order that they might remind themselves of the dances which they had learned at the camp. Since then, I have been invited to be the official videographer at Machol Miami, Hilula, Hilulim, Hora Aviv, Chagigah (Wisconsin), Kochavim (Texas) and Karmiel USA(Georgia), and Toronto IsReal Dance Festival. These camps are great for learning the dances either from the people who choreographed them or from other excellent teachers.

I hope you enjoy any of the videos that you order and continue to enjoy the ones you may have ordered in the past. And by all means, keep dancing.

If you have any questions, please email me at:
larrymarcus
@yahoo.com
or phone me at:
(919)790-8846

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