New Mexico Camp 2025!
Dates: July 10-13, 2025
Where: United World College
400 State Rte 65, Montezuma, New Mexico
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About  New Mexico Camp

Celebrating 41 years, New Mexico Camp  is a premier camp, held this year on the campus of United World College, Montezuma, New Mexico. The camp is about 90 minutes north of Santa Fe, New Mexico. This year’s camp features teachers Petur Iliev (Bulgarian) and Richard Powers (Dance historian extraordinaire/Social dance teacher).

Dancers seasoned and new alike come to New Mexico Camp for its unique and welcoming community, along with workshops, evening parties, live music, and more. Between internationally renowned guest dance leaders and musicians, camper-organized extra activities like music jams and bird watching walks, there’s something to make this a fabulous weekend for everyone!

2025 Teachers

Petur Iliev is a Bulgarian-born dancer and choreographer whose career is deeply steeped in the rich folk dance traditions of his family. He started dancing at the age of five at the dance ensemble of his father. Later he graduated from the Bulgarian National School of Dance Art and from the Bulgarian National Institute of Choreography in Sofia, Bulgaria. He began his professional career as a Principal Dancer of Kutev National Dance and Music Ensemble where he worked for five years, before continuing his training at the National Dance Institute in New York where he studied under the supervision of one of the gurus of American dance, Jacques d’Amboise. Subsequently, Iliev became the Artistic Co-Director of Believe in Me — a dance ensemble in Austin, TX, where for four years he trained more than a thousand young dancers. Moving to California, Iliev continued teaching dance to hundreds of children in a performing arts magnet school. A year later he was appointed the Artistic Director of Westwind International Dance Company — one of the first companies in the US whose mission was to present to the American audience the richness and diversity of ethnic dance. Iliev has been creating new choreographies for professional and non-professional dance companies in the US and Canada. In 2003 he joined the faculty of the renowned School of Pacific Northwest Ballet and two years later was attracted to the School of Ballet Chicago.

Richard Powers is a full-time instructor of dance history and contemporary social dance forms at Stanford University Dance Division, Department of Theater and Performance Studies. His principal focus since 1975 has been social dance forms, from the Renaissance to today. Specializations include 19th century American and European social dance, dances of the Ragtime Era and Jazz Ages, and currently evolving vernacular dance forms.

His research is drawn from a personal collection of over 2,500 historic dance manuals, the largest personal collection in the world, supplemented with a twelve thousand-title collection of period dance music. Other resources include ongoing exchanges of information with dance historians in the U.S and Europe.

He has studied historic dance with Ingrid Brainard, Julia Sutton, Elizabeth Aldrich, Shirley Wynne, Angene Feves, Wendy Hilton, Catherine Turocy, Elaine Biagi Turner, Ann Jacoby, Charles Garth, Frantisek Bonus, Yvonne Vart, Michelle Nadal, Frankie Manning, Norma Miller and Juan Carlos Copes.

About the United World College – USA

United World College officially the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West, is a United World College school in San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States. Located at: 400 State Rte 65, Montezuma, New Mexico, the college was founded in 1982. The college serves a broad set of students from 95 different countries.

For more information and registration
Email: moc.liamg@pmactsuguamn

Or:
Southwest International Folk Dance Institute
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