ROSINA DIDYK

Rosina Didyk was born into a house where music from all over the world was playing on a constant basis. Starting at about four years old, her parents would bring her along to their recreational folk dance group, where people were getting together to enjoy dances from different places, mostly Eastern Europe. She was the tiny person tagging along at the ends of the lines with a huge smile on her face.

Later, she studied gymnastics, ballet, jazz dance, modern, tap, and anything else she could get access to. But, she was always drawn back to those rhythms from places like Bulgaria, Macedonia, Hungary, North Africa, Ireland and even the Appalachian Mountains of the United States. Something about the music just made her want to move and she has been moving to all those rhythms ever since! In the course of her career she has performed as a soloist for AMAN Folk Ensemble, Karpatok Hungarian Folk Ensemble, Viviane’s Egyptian Dance Theater and toured internationally with The Brigham Young University Folk Ensemble and Collage Dance of Boston. Ms. Didyk has toured independently, as well, in Hong Kong,Taiwan,Turkey and Macedonia. In addition, she was also the Artistic Director of AMAN from 1998 until it closed its doors in 2004. In following her love of folk dances, Rosina also discovered a love for sharing these dances with people of all ages.
She has been teaching folk dance in Southern California schools for over 13 years. Now, as a founding member of the Aman Dance Educators, she is exploring new ways to share these dances, incorporating creative components that allow students to more deeply understand these traditions by re-creating them for themselves.

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