aifd.cc or AIFD Newsletter October 2, 2020 This Friday's AIFD/HIFD Virtual Folk Dance, October 2, 7:30-9:30pm, will be hosted by AIFD. Zoom link Meeting ID: 847 8053 8417 Password: 393160 Link to dance program and teachers. If you have any comments on our virtual dances or dance requests, we would love to hear from you! Please email us at teaching_director@aifd.cc. Need one more chance at a dance done on Friday night? Can't remember the name of a dance you'd like to see taught? Check out the list of selected dances from AIFD's music library, provided by Franklin Houston. If you don't see your dance and would like to see the full list of dances, or have problems using the list, email Franklin at music_librarian@aifd.cc. List of other online events compiled by Denise Fynmore. To be added to the newsletter distribution, please email newsletter_editor@aifd.cc or click here. Have something you'd like to see in the AIFD newsletter? Do you have an upcoming event you'd like to announce, a poem you'd like to share, a dance experience you think other dancers would enjoy? Feel free to submit it to the AIFD newsletter and we'll make it fit. ZOOM TIPS John Bloom of HIFD has posted some good information on how to help better your virtual dance experience: An introduction to using Zoom. Updated PC-performance tips. Also, the dance leaders would like to provide you with some ideas on how to have an easier time following us during our virtual dance sessions. For dances that move around a lot, try taking smaller steps and doing quick little pivots in place to face your screen again. Also, putting up a mirror opposite your monitor screen can assist you in viewing the dance leader while your back is to the screen. A Zoom limerick: "Push the furniture out to the wall Don't trip on the dog or you'll fall Dancing by Zoom In your own living room Is better than nothing at all" by Dorothea Migliori (Albuquerque IFD newsletter, September 2020). Tks to Chuck Roth for forwarding. Link of the week: Harry Potter theme. If you would like to be removed from our newsletter distribution, please notify us at newsletter_editor@aifd.cc or click here.