Selected Folk Dance Links
Compiled by Dick Oakes
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For our Colorado friends and visitors, here are a few links for dancing around our beautiful state, along with a few more 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.
- Sonny Newman's Dance Hall (Seattle) 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.
Selected Colorado Club Web Pages
- Boulder International Folk Dancers (Boulder)
- Denver International Folk Dancers (Denver)
- Empire Grange International Folk Dancing (Fort Collins)
- Folk Dancing in Washington Park (Denver)
- Folk Dancing in the Mountains (Nederland)
- Folk Dancing on the Plaza (Boulder)
- Maple Grove Folk Dancers (Wheat Ridge)
Colorado Folk Dance Links
- Avalon Ballroom (Boulder)
- Boulder Israeli Dance (Boulder)
- Boulder Scandinavian Dancers (Boulder)
- Calico & Boots Traditional American Dancing (Lafayette)
- Colorado Contra Dancing (Denver)
- Colorado Celtic Dancing (Denver)
- Colorado Friends of Old Time Music and Dance (Denver)
- Colorado Round Dance Association (Greeley)
- Colorado Square Dance Association (Denver)
- Colorado Welsh Society (Denver)
- Dance . . . Chris Kermiet (Denver)
- Fifth Saturday Scandinavian Bygdedans (Boulder)
- Friends of Traditional Dance (Fort Collins)
- Hoofin' High Country Cloggers (Broomfield)
- International Dance Club (Colorado Springs)
- Koshare Indian Dancers (La Junta)
- Lloyd Shaw Foundation (Colorado Springs)
- Maroon Bells Morris Dancers (Boulder)
- Monday Scandinavian Dancing (Boulder)
- Miriam "Pumehana" Paisner (Boulder)
- Pikes Peak Scottish Country Dancers (Colorado Springs)
- Pikes Peak Traditional Dance (Colorado Springs)
- Rocky Mountain Swing Dance Club (Denver)
- Scottish Country Dancers of Colorado (Boulder)
- Sons of Norway (Colorado Springs)
- Waltz Night (Boulder)
Folk Dance Music, Stores, and Bazaars
- Balkan Bazaar (Suze Stentz, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. A "moving" shop that attends folk dance weekends, camps, and festivals with authentic music, traditional dress and costumes, Cyrillic T-shirts, opanci, books, accessories, jewelry, gifts, and gently pre-owned clothing.)
- Best of NAMA CD (David Owens, Ann Arbor, Michigan. David was the director of NAMA.)
- Ethnic Connection CD (David Owens [Director], Ann Arbor, Michigan. David was the director of NAMA.)
Folk Dance Listings
- Colorado-Arts.net (Denver)
- Colorado FootMad (Boulder)
- Village Arts Coalition (Boulder)
Folk Dance Metronomes
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Folk Dance Players
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Folk Dance Notes/Descriptions
- Asteria Dancing Group (In addition to performing Greek dances, this group has nearly 15 Greek dances notated.)
- Badger Sett Collection of Scottish Country Dances (Ian Brockbank has nearly 50 dances here.)
- BYU Folk Dancers (Brigham Young University's folk dance notes.)
- Contra Dance List (Cambridge has some 225 contra dances, all notated.)
- Contra Dances (Rosemary Slacks has nearly 35 contra international dances on her site.)
- Dance Notes (Andy Bettis has some 60 descriptions in HTML format.)
- Evansville International Folk Dancers (Nearly 400 dance notes in PDF format.)
- Folk Dance Federation of California, Inc. (North) (The Federation (North) has several folk dance notes available.)
- Folk Dance Descriptions (Dick Oakes has over 200 folk dance descriptions in HTML.)
- Folkdance Notes (Andrew Carnie has at least 50 descriptions in Adobe Acrobat .PDF format.)
- Folk Dance Notes (Tom Deering has nearly 40 dances, a few in text format, most in WordPerfect format.)
- Folk Dance Notes (and more) (Bob Shapiro has links to nearly 1500 dance notes.)
- Folk Dance Page (Andy Pollock has over a dozen folk dances described.)
- folkdancing.com (There are 28 Scandinavian dances notated here, plus an Explanation of Dance Holds and a Glossary of Terms.)
- Grand Chain - Ceilidh (About 20 Ceilidh dances notes are listed here.)
- Grand Chain - Scottish (About 20 Scottish dances notes are listed here.)
- Greek Dances (A selection of twelve dances.)
- Highland and Scottish Step Dance Instructions (Ian Brockbank has more than 60 Scottish dances here.)
- Hugo's Folk Dance Resources (Hugo Moule's page of dance notes.)
- Irish and Scottish Dance Descriptions (Scott MacHaffy has notated a dozen dances.)
- Israeli Dances (No dances described but lists of Israeli dances, choreographers, etc.)
- Live Circle Dance (Brian Steere's list of dances.)
- Palmer's Pocket Playford (More than 50 dances by William Palmer from the Playfore Ball programmes.)
- The Morris Book, Part 1 (By Cecil J. Sharp. Eleven dances in this book.)
- SetDance.com (Brooks Academy has almost 20 Irish dance sets are notated here.)
- Pluck and Squeeze Welsh Dances (There are 10 dances here from Wales.)
- Stockton Folk Dance Camp Syllabi - 1948 to Present (PDF format with a link on the left.)
- Strathspey Server (The Server links to dance description collections.)
- Thrir Venstri Foetr Dance List (More than 60 English Country Dances are notated here.)
- Vitrifolk Descriptions de danses (Vitrifolk has many, many dance notes available--but all are in French.)
- Helen Winkler's Dance Descriptions (Helen Winkler has about 10 Jewish dances.)
Folk Dance Videos
- Digital Video Research Archive of Morris, Sword, and Clog Dancing (Boston University. English and American performances from 1975 to the present.)
- Folkdance Music (Many videos!)
Organizations
- Earth Cultures Project (A project of Educational Communications.)
Other Folk Dance Links
- Animated Folk Dance GIFs (Naohisa Hamada [MARUCHO] has created dozens of absolutely amazing animated folk dancers, one of which is shown above!)
- Albuquerque International Folk Dance Foundation (Albuquerque, New Mexico; A folk dance group that meets weekly on Saturday nights.)
- Art Kitchen (Los Angeles, California. Leonard Ellis' website of serving a sumptuous smorgasbord of music, painting, poetry, dance, storytelling, animation, quotes, and humor.)
- Balkanfolk (Sofia, Bulgaria; Workshops, news, performing groups, singing groups, events, shopping, and more.)
- Balkan Tunes (Bill Cope's website full of music information and downloads.)
- Beaver Folk Dancing (Beaver College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.)
- Bergschuster Spielleute (In Bavarian--a nice site.)
- Berkeley Folk Dancers (Berkeley, California.)
- Bob Radcliffe's IFD Event List (Robert C. Radcliffe's International Folk Dance Event List)
- 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.)
- Bulgarian Dance (Las Vegas, Nevada. Marin Petrov's classes.)
- 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 (A non-profit formed to educate the general public about folk music, dance, and lore in the Balkans.)
- 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 Celebrate America's ethnic heritage in dance and music. For adolescents, young adults, mature adults, and families.
- Ethnic Dance Chicago - Workshop Dance Teachers EDC's list of workshop folk dance teachers.
- Ethnic Express International Folkdancing Club of Las Vegas, Nevada.
- 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. Inc. (North)
- Folk Dance Federation of California, South, Inc. (South)
- 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 (Links to many folk dance venues around the world.)
- Folk Dancers of Ottawa (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.)
- Folklore Discography Hundreds of record albums and CDs by region, label, tracks, or artist. Very well done!
- Friday Night L.I.F.E. Dancers (Sherry Cochran's folk dance evening.)
- 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 Dancers of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio: International folk dance group.)
- International Folk Dancing in New Mexico (Courtesy of Rick Wallace.)
- Internet Archive (John Clements 78rpm music collection.)
- Israeli and International Dance (Loui Tucker's site with special events, dance background, tips and tricks, dance writings, more.)
- Israeli Dance Australia (Search for dances, translations, choreographers, singers, composers, and lyricists.)
- 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.)
- John Clement's Page (Invitation to Houston International Folk Dancers plus several articles of interest to folk dancers.)
- Kypseli Greek Dance Center (Pasadena, California. If you like Greek music, check out their CDs.)
- Kathy Lin's International Folk Dance (Missasauga, Ontario, Canada: Much information on international folk dancing.)
- Mesilla Valley International Folk Dancers (Las Cruces, New Mexico: Recreational folk dancing Monday evenings on wooden floor.)
- Miami Valley Folk Dancers (Dayton, Ohio: International folk dance group.)
- MIT Folk Dance Club (Massachusetts Institute of Technology's folk dance site.)
- National Folk Organization (Serving the entire United States.)
- Northwest Folkdancers Inc. (NFDI) (Covering the northwestern United States, including Alaska.)
- 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.)
- Phoenix International Folk Dancers (Phoenix, Arizona)
- 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!)
- Romanian Folk Costumes (Costumes and other items offered by Dan Baciu of X Trade 2000 s.r.l.)
- South Bend Folk Dancers (South Bend, Indiana)
- 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)
