New Year Messages for 2012

From Lili and Rita

Thank you Wednesday night dancers for a great 2011 and for support throughout this year.

The time has gone by so quickly and we are proud of the progress and the added dance repetoire we have all acquired.

We have, as always, enjoyed teaching you all and sharing personal events and our dancing bond with you.

We always have lots of fun together , one of the best times is catching up with the week's happenings in our shmooze time.

We are having a well deserved break and will be returning refreshed and ready to dance our old favourites and new dances in 2012.

A safe and a healthy New Year to you.

See you all back in 2012.

We are returning to dancing on:

Wednesday the 8th Feb 2012 at 7pm

St John's Hall (Indonesian Church Hall)

158 Balaclava Rd, Caulfield.

Le Hitra'ot until then

Lili and Rita

 

From Shula and Moshe

2011 has presented us with some exciting and some challenging experiences.

We have had a pretty tranquil period since the end of 'Rikud Oz 2011' however, we have consolidated our repertoire and augmented it with some beautiful 'hot off the press' dances.

Machol was challenged at the closing of 2011 by an attempt to misrepresent and weaken our long standing and strong bond and association with the State of Israel, it's culture and it's people by a Victorian multicultural organization, from which we have obtained an unreserved apology. We are indebted to our committee, teachers and all Machol members who added their voice via a petition for standing up to this challenge as a matter of principle. We are committed to be as vigilant in the future for any such or similar attempt by any organization or indvidual.

We owe a special individual 'Thank You' to Ian Levy who volunteered his time and skills in helping us to negotiate our way in our endeavour to right the wrong on your behalf.

Enjoy the well deserved break from 2011 and come back fully recharged and reinvigorated in 2012.

Shula and I thank Lili and Rita for their work with their class and also their essential help to our classes throughout 2011.

Our committee's unrelenting effort in maintaining and running Machol cannot go unmentioned and we are very grateful for their continuous commitment to Machol.

A Happy and a healthy New Year to you all.

Shula and Moshe

 

From the Machol committee

This coming year we plan we plan to have our camp with El'ad Shtamer in June 22nd-24th in a new venue in Geelong.

El'ad is so cute, young, vibrant and talented. Please make sure to come to camp and encourage others to come too.

Machol has been involved in many community performances and activities throughout the year thansk to the hard work by Lili and Rita. The committee thanks all dancers who gave their time and participated in these events.

The committee thanks sincerely our fantastic teachers Shula, Moshe, Lili and Rita for their hard work in running their classes rain hail or shine. What would we do without them? They run their life around their classes.

We also thank our members who help with cakes decorations and cleaning up after classes and parties. This help is extremely important and Machol could not run smoothly without your essential help. Of course, some go the extra mile.

Special thanks go to Jack Steel for filling in whenever called upon and encouraging the line dancing.

Special thanks go to Ariela for her hard work in providing her artistic skills in decorating our events which always look great and her baking skills providing us with her delicious cakes. Ariela's cakes go hand in hand with Shula's great culinary art contributions.

Last March we had Rikud Oz which was a great success. All attending had a greta time. It was a great effort by all Melbourne dance groups.

We would like to thank all Machol members for their loyalty and commitment to their club. As for those Non members who pop in on the odd occasion we love having you and we hope that you continue to grace us with your presence.

We look forward to dancing together in 2012. Everyone deserves a pat on their back for making Machol such a success. Thank you.

We start again on Thursday the 12th of January 2012.

Lili and Rita's class starts on 8th ofFebruary 2012

Timetable for 2012 with small changes.

Thursday

Lines 8pm - 8:30pm

Circles 8:30pm - 10pm

Partners 10pm - 11pm

Saturday

Partners revision 1:40pm-2pm

Circles 2pm 3:45pm

Lines 3:45pm - 4pm

Partners 4pm - 6pm

We have made these changes in line with the feedback we have received and in a view to try and please as many of you as we can.

Those who love lines will get an extra 5mins a week and those who don't like the extended break will also benefit. The lines group is growing fast so give it a try if you haven't already.

We aim to provide you with the best , most exciting and pleasurable dance experience..

Happy New Year

Your Committee

Lynda Walters
Ida Ajzenman
Max Brenner
Jan Sapir
Betty Rosenberg
Hazel Diner
Esther Blumenthal-Skop