OMEA 2002 Conference:
Building Community Through Music
January 25-27, 2002
 Sanna Longden
Clinician
Sanna Longden has presented at many AOSA, Kodaly, MENC conferences and chapters. She also spends much time in elementary schools as a resident artist, is an instructor in university courses, and a choreographer of ethnic dances for theater productions.
A longtime international dance leader and ethnic dance performer from Evanston, Il, Sanna�s specialty is to focus on the "folk." She has produced five instructional videos with tapes/CDs; a book, Folk Dance Cultures and Styling, co-authored with Phyllis Weikart (HighScope Press, 1998); and the ancient Passover dance, "Oy, Matzorena," with the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band. She also is an editor of the National Folk Organization�s NFO News, and is a Silver Burdett Ginn author and clinician. In addition, Sanna and her husband and partner, Mars, give private swing dance lessons and teach piano instructors dances of the classical piano music repertoire.
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