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Cost: $70 if before 2/17, $80 after, payable to Oak Ridge Folk Dancers

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Mail to: Paul Taylor, 2215 Fitzgerald Road, Knoxville, TN 37931

Email questions to Barbara and Paul Taylor

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DIRECTIONS to 828 Tulip Street (map link)
Heading East on I-40, exit on 17th St exit (#387), merge onto Dale Ave. Cross 17St at the traffic light (there will be signs for I-40 east and I-275 north). (continued below)

Heading West on I-40, exit on 17th St exit (#387), turn right on Ailor Ave, and then right on 17th St, at the light. Cross under the interstate and turn left at the light onto Dale Ave.

As Dale Ave curves to the north (left), turn right on Blackstock Ave (a small road). Turn left on Heins St, which dead ends at the parking lot for the Square Dance Center.

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BIOGRAPHY of THOMAS G. MASTERSON
250 31st Street, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A. 80305
Telephone: 303 499-6363
email masterst@colorado.edu
www.danceophile.com
www.postoley.org


Tom Masterson is a dance choreographer and master teacher living in Boulder, Colorado. He owns Danceophile Studio and teaches ballroom, swing, Latin, ethnic, character and performance dance. He started dancing at the University of Wisconsin and has taught ballroom & ethnic dance for over 20 years. He has taught and performed extensively in Europe, Canada, Asia, and the United States. He directs Postoley Dance Ensemble (a professional company specializing in the dance, music and song of Ukraine, Poland & Russia), and Boulder's very popular summer "Folkdancing on the Plaza" program. He has also been an artist-in-residence in many schools and universities in Colorado and across the United States.

Dancing is communication, cooperation, and sharing of the heart, mind and soul. Tom teaches different dance programs most every night of the week and works daily with many private students. He has choreographed about 60 dances in the past decade, including wedding & ballroom dances (featured in "Dancing with the Stars" in Boulder in October 2007), dances for large performing ensembles (Hopak!), small performing companies (Krakowski Oberek), recreational dance groups (Magdeburg Polka) and children's groups (Kohanochka). He is also deeply committed to encouraging and supporting ethnic diversity and multicultural understanding in the community, schools, work places, and everyday life. The respect of our fellow beings and appreciation of our heritage is requisite for avoiding the repetition of past mistakes and for future peace on the planet.

Tom Masterson was born and raised in Québec, Canada, and grew up speaking French as well as English. He also speaks German fluently and gets along in Ukrainian, Russian, and Spanish. He lived in Germany, Eastern & Western Canada before moving to Boulder.
Education includes a B.A. from Rice University, M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin (Madison), and ongoing courses of study with many master dance teachers.

Other interests include mountaineering (certified mountain guide, cross country ski instructor, and owner of Back Country Tours company, climbing high hills- just returned from climbing Lhotse (28000 ft) in May 2007), physics (formerly a professor of physics at the Universities of Colorado, Wyoming, and British Columbia; research work in fundamental symmetries), peace activism, running ultra-marathon trail races, bicycling through the Colorado Rockies, rock climbing, hiking, backpacking, ethnomusicology, metaphysics and exploring remote corners of the planet.