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Mountain Playshop 2026!
September 25 - September 27
Mark your calendars for Friday, September 25th, 4:00 p.m. to Sunday, September 27th, 11:00 a.m. for the Mountain Playshop weekend is held in Montreat, North Carolina.
Mountain Playshop is a regional dance weekend that attracts folk dancers from North Carolina as well as nearby states to socialize, dance, relax and learn a dance or two. Our guest teacher is Erik Bendix who will teach international folk dance.
About our Teacher
Erik Bendix of Asheville NC will teach international folk dance at this weekend workshop.
Erik Bendix, who grew up in the bay area of San Francisco, began folk dancing at the age of ten. He has taught folk dance in Europe and the United States since 1972. Although he specializes in dances of Europe, especially from the Balkans, Near East, and the Klezmer culture, his dance research extends as far east as Mongolia and Thailand.
Erik has studied and taught Albanian, Armenian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Greek, Hungarian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Yiddish folk dances, as well as traditional Mevlevi dervish whirling dances and Appalachian clogging.
Erik co-founded the Mountain Playhop summer folkdance weekend in Asheville, North Carolina in 1984, and has been a regular teacher ever since.
OUR LOCATION
The dance hall at Montreat Conference Center is a short walk on a level, smooth road from lodging and has water and bathrooms. Attendees may stay on the campus of the Montreat Conference Center, in Glen Rock Inn, or in South Carolina Inn. Glenn Rock has a kitchen and dining room for our catered meals.
Where: Montreat Conference Center
401 Assembly Drive, Montreat NC 28757
Montreat Conference Center: https://montreat.org/
Conference Center phone: 828-669-2911
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
FULL TIME (Fri., 4:00 pm — Sun.,11:00 am)
Includes all teaching, parties, 5 meals, an artists table, and facility use charge.
PART TIME
All meals, teaching sessions, and dance parties can be purchased separately.
Check our website for pricing details.
REGISTRATION WILL OPEN IN JULY
Website: http://www.mountainplayshop.org
Contact: Mountain Playshop Board/ Paul Taylor 865 898 5724
Email: moc.liamg@rolyatarabrabdnaluap
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