New Year's
Eve Performance in the Polish American Club "POLONEZ"
Florida, Fort Lauderdale
Five pairs escaped the cold of Chicago to travel about 1,360 miles
to sunny Fort Lauderdale. With hotels right near the beach front, we
spent every day relaxing, tanning, taking long walks along the shore
and playing volleyball.
For New Years Eve, our group arrived at the Polish
American Club "POLONEZ"
where the ballroom was decorated beautifully. We started the night
off with one of five national dances of Poland, the Polonez. Once
our five pairs finished the dance, each dancer asked a distinguished
member of the community to join them in another Polonez, led by our
director Ania Krysinska.. This dance was a way for our group to show
our thanks for those community members who had helped us come to
Florida and perform for them.
The guests at the Polish American Club enjoyed dinner and some
dancing. After dinner, we performed a waltz. Our final dance was
Nowy Sacz. It is a dance that was choreographed a few years ago when
Jerzy Zyczynski, a member of the Polish American Club, came to
Chicago to teach it to our group. After our final performance, our
group as well as all the guests who had been enjoying our
performances joined together to dance. All generations combined to
dance until 4 A.M.
Our stay in Fort Lauderdale is a vacation we won’t soon forget.
There were so many people who contributed to making our stay so
memorable. First and foremost, we’d like to thank the President of
the Polish American Club of Ft. Lauderdale, Zdzislaw Zielinski. It
is because of Mr. Zielinski that we were invited to come to Florida.
Without him, our trip would NOT have been possible.
Our thanks go to Jerzy Zyczynski, who has put much time and effort
into our group previous to Florida. As choreographer of the group
“Sadeczoki” Mr. Zyczynski put his own time and effort into
making sure we did our best. We hope we performed his Sacz justice.
We’d like to extend a huge thanks to our hotel owners who made our
stay comfortable and relaxing. Ryszard Czapla, owner of Ocean
Breeze Hotel,
Krzysztof Poprawski, owner of Sunrise
Inn and Zenon Marzec,
owner of Paradise
by the Sea.
To see photos and read more about our trip to Florida visit New
Year's Eve Party in the Polonez club
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