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Folk Dance Federation of California, South, Inc.
By Dick Oakes |
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The Gypsy Folk Ensemble is an active professional world-dance performing company based in Los Angeles, California that was formed in 1978 to preserve, perform, and teach traditional folk and ethnic dances from people and cultures around the world.
The company offers an extensive series of educational and entertaining dance programs for a wide variety of venues such as schools, libraries, festivals, business events, private parties and senior facilities.
The company makes its home at the Gypsy Camp Ethnic Arts Center in Los Angeles which also functions as a dance studio.
Gypsy has been presenting school assemblies, student workshops, and Professional Development sessions for schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District and other cities in California and Arizona for more than 25 years.
The company has also reached out to those unable to attend public performances with a special series for senior citizens in retirement and care facilities and children in hospitals.
Gypsy has performed thousands of shows in festivals, schools, libraries, businesses and private parties, and has appeared on television and in feature films.
The Earth Cultures Project is an arm of Educational Communications, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life on our planet and to fostering cultural awareness and education through the arts. The Gypsy Folk Ensemble is proud to be one of the groups working with the organization to promote its goals.