Folk Dance Info

The community of folk dancers spans the globe; people of all ages and cultures who share a love of music, dance and folk traditions. Here are some sources of dance steps, music and information about other dance groups, teachers and traditions.

Dance Descriptions

There are many web sites which include international folk dance descriptions. These are a good way to remind yourself of the dance steps if you have already learned the dance and have the music.

Ethnic Dance Chicago

A site run by Paul Collins has a sampling of international folk dance music that you can play back as well as a lot of other information and links reflecting Paul's interests, such as information on square and contra dancing, minidisk players, events and information about Chicago, the Door County Folk Dance Festival, folk dancing in the schools, etc.

Dick Oake's Folk Dance Descriptions

Dick Oake's folk dance descriptions includes lots of international dance notations.

Andrew Carnie's Folkdance Notes

Andrew Carnie's folk dance notes (in pdf format) is an alphabetic list of dance step notations.

Folkdance.com

Click Folk Dance Federation of California in the top menu bar, then click Dance Descriptions.

Yves Moreau

Yves Moreau and his wife France maintain a web site based on their Bulgarian and French-Canadian dance interests. This includes biographies, listings of CDs and videos for sale, dance materials for children, Yvesâ current itinerary of workshops, and links to various festivals.

Folk Songs

Singout

Check this site for words to some of our favourite folk dances.

Yiddish Dance

Helen's Yiddish Dance Page

Helen Winkler has invited us to check out her website to learn more about klezmer dance.

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