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MIHAI DAVID (ROMANIAN)
 Mihai
David was born in Bucharest, Romania, and began dancing at the age of
eight at the Pioneers' Youth Palace. Two years later, he began attending a
School of Choreography in Bucharest, where he studied extensively the
various forms of dance – classical ballet, character, modern and folk.
Before his graduation at age 17, he was dancing with the
Romanian State Folk Ballet Ciocarlia and became their lead dancer. He
continued touring with the troupe throughout Europe until his defection to
Italy in 1966.
A
year later, Mihai immigrated to the United States, where he danced with
the Boston
Ballet Company and had his own exhibition group within the Detroit,
MI, Romanian community. He then moved to California and danced adagio in
Las Vegas, NV. While in the US Army, he danced classical ballet with
a ballet company in Augusta, GA.
Mihai has introduced many of the most popular Romanian dances being done
in the US and Canada. His teaching tours have taken him throughout the
western hemisphere, the Orient, and Australia. Mihai has taught Romanian
dance at the San Francisco Kolo Festival, the Stockton Folk Dance Camp,
and the Santa Barbara Folk Dance Conference. In Hollywood, CA, he opened
and operated his Gypsy Camp CoffeeHouse. He was also co-director of the
Hawaii and Santa Barbara Folk Dance Symposiums and the Catalina
International Dance Festival.
In 2004, Mihai was honored to receive an award at the San Antonio College
Folk Dance Festival. He was attributed with outstanding achievement
in bringing the culture of his country to the world of international folk
dancing.
Today,
Mihai makes his home in Southern California where he operates his own
construction company and teaches Romanian dance in his free time.
For
additional information about Mihai, please click on Dick
Oakes' Phantom Ranch web site.
YVES
MOREAU (BULGARIAN)
For
a comprehensive biography, please click on the Bourque-Moreau
web site and/or Dick
Oakes' Phantom Ranch web site
To
contribute to Yves Moreau's "Memory Book" by sending a
congratulatory card or note:
Elaine
Moczygemba
439
CR 234
Hobson, TX 78117
(830) 780-4005
cdrmoczygemba@yahoo.com
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