For our Colorado friends and visitors, here are a few links for dancing around our beautiful state, along with a few others at the end of the list. If you know of others, let us know. But first, a shameless plug for my good friend, Sonny Newman, now helpful in Seattle.
Selected Colorado Club Web Pages
Colorado Folk Dance Links
Folk Dance Club Listings
Folk Dance Notes/Descriptions/Videos
Other Folk Dance Links
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Sonny Newman offers group and private instruction, performance and regular dances in Argentine Tango. Other types of dance and activities available at Sonny's include Swing/Lindy Hop, Salsa, Waltz, Zydeco, and Jazzercise. Everyone welcome! Partners not required.
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Camps and Conferences, Coffeehouses, Events and Festivals,
Musicians and Singers, Performing Groups, and Tours and Cruises.
- Animated Folk Dance GIFs (Naohisa Hamada has created dozens of absolutely amazing animated folk dancers, one of which is shown above, replicated for a total of five images!)
- Albuquerque International Folk Dance Foundation (Albuquerque, New Mexico; A folk dance group that meets weekly on Saturday nights.)
- Balkanfolk (Sofia, Bulgaria; Workshops, news, performing groups, singing groups, events, shopping, and more.)
- Bay Area Country Dance Society (Bay Area, California)
- Bergschuster Spielleute (In Bavarian--a nice site.)
- Bob's Dance and Music (Los Angeles area; emphasis is on Scottish, Scandinavian, American, international.)
- Tom Bozigian (Los Angeles area; emphasis is on Armenian dance, choreography, and dance ethnography, etc..)
- California Kolo Festival (The top kolo festival in the country.)
- CapitolDance.com (Shmuel Batzri's site that promotes Israeli folk dancing through workshops, retreats, and resource information.)
- California Traditional Music Society (CTMS) (Clark Weissman's organization that features master folk dance teachers at their Summer Solstice Festival.)
- Center for Traditional Music and Dance (For traditional music and dance lovers everywhere.)
- Christy Lane Enterprises (Source for many items related to dance.)
- Claddagh Dance Company (Ventura, California; Irish dance info, including classes, choreography, performances, and how you can enjoy Irish dancing.)
- Country Dance New York, Inc. (New York, New York; English and American folk dance in New York City.)
- Dance Gypsy (Greg Scragg's resources for traditional, contra, and international folk dance for dancers with wanderlust.)
- Dance Notation Bureau (New York. Advances dance through the use of the symbol system called Labanotation.)
- DanceTutor.com (This site, to our knowledge, is the first full motion--30 frames per second--dance instruction site on the Internet.)
- Dunav (Balkan folk dance in Israel.)
- East European Folklife Center
- Eliznik Web Pages (Several websites for Balkan folklore by Liz Mellish and Nick Green in the U.K.)
- El Paso International Folk Dancers (El Paso, Texas: A recreational group that meets once a month on selected Sundays.)
- Helene Eriksen (Helene is a teacher and choreographer of traditional dances of the Balkans and Islamic Orient.)
- Ethnic Dance Chicago
- Evansville International Folk Dancers
- Festival Records (The ultimate record source!)
- Folk Dance Association
- Folk Dance Australia (Includes back issues of Footnotes Magazine.)
- Folk Dance Federation of California (North.)
- Folk Dance Federation of California, South, Inc.
- Folkdance Music (Music for over 2600 folk dances from all over the world, many with links to dance notes, such as those on this site!)
- Folk Dance Resources on the Web
- Glossary of Dance Terms (Jim Battisson's offering for International folk dancers, especially in Australia.)
- Greek Dancing NYC (Dances your favorites from all regions of Greece.)
- How to Start a Folk Dance Club (by Bruce Botehlo)
- How to Start a Folk Dance Group (by David Slater)
- Hugo's Folk Dancing Pages (Hugo Moule's site in Canada with many easy folk dances notated.)
- International Folk Dance Association of University City (IFDA) (Serving the greater St. Louis area.)
- International Folk Dancing in New Mexico (Courtesy of Rick Wallace.)
- Israeli Dance Australia (Includes a searchable datatase of over 4,000 Israeli folk dances.)
- Israeli Folk Dance with Meliss (Meliss' personal site includes photos of Israeli dance choreographers.)
- Izvor Music (Balkan folk music, focusing primarily on Macedonian folk music in the izvorno tradition.)
- Kentucky Dance Organization (Home of the Folk Dancer records.)
- Kypseli Greek Dance Center (Pasadena, California. If you like Greek music, check out their CDs.)
- Laguna Folk Dancers (New site of an old but thriving group.)
- Metronome for Macintosh computers (Doggiebox beat sequencer for Macintosh OS X.)
- Mesilla Valley International Folk Dancers (Las Cruces, New Mexico: Recreational folk dancing Monday evenings on wooden floor.)
- Metronome for Windoze computers (Weird Metronome for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, or XP.)
- MIT Folk Dance Club (Massachusetts Institute of Technology's folk dance site.)
- Montana Folkdance Network (Home of International Folk Dancing in Montana.)
- National Folk Organization
- Northwest Folkdancers Inc. (NFDI)
- Ontario Folk Dance Assocation (A non-profit organization interested in the traditional music and dances of the world.)
- Ottawa Contra Dance (Dances feature fabulous live contra dance music and calling from the Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, and New England regions.)
- Miriam "Pumehana" Paisner (Event and concert coordination, poetry gatherings, Hawaiian dance lessons and shows, character actress, horsecare, petcare, and wildlife help.)
- Phoenix International Folk Dancers
- Andy Pollock's Folk Dance Page (The official web site of the Phoenix International Folk Dancers.)
- Princeton New Jersey Folk Dance (Beginners are welcome! Old pros are venerated!)
- Ratchenitza (The official web site of the Balkan Dancers of Seattle.)
- Romanian Folk Costumes (Costumes and other items offered by Dan Baciu of X Trade 2000 s.r.l.)
- St. Louis Folk Dance Association of University City (Incorporated in 1964 and serving the greater St. Louis area.)
- Surma Ukrainian Shop (Costume pieces, books, videos, CDs, cassettes, carved wood pieces, more.)
- Teacher Biographies
- Vitrifolk (4,300 pages, 7,200 images; all in Belgian.)
- Thanksgiving Folk Dance Camp (The Bannerman Family)