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On the Web
- Folk Dance Association - Helping newcomers discover folk dance: from contra dance to Balkan dance. Publishes Folk Dance Directory, an on-line directory of folk dance groups, events and activities in the US and Canada.
- Mechola: Jerusalem Dance Company - Dance center of Jerusalem, established three representative Folk dance companies, a unique children dance company, a youth dance company, an adult dance company, along with 2 Jazz dance companies.
- NEFFA LinkFest: Folk Dancing - A directory of folk dancing pages
- English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) - Promotes English folk music and dance. Includes lists of events at Cecil Sharp House (London), their books and CDs, and Root Source - a guide to folk activities in England.
- Welsh Folk Dance Society - Includes information on Welsh folk dancing and dances, the Society and its history, teams around Wales, folk dance events and festivals, Eisteddfod. English/Cymraeg.
- The State Folk Dance Conspiracy - Article opposed to the campaign to make square dancing the national folk dance.
- Welsh Folk Dance Society - Information about Welsh folk dance in the United Kingdom, including contacts to dance groups. Also provides access to dance and music books, videos and CDs and educational materials.
- Celtic Bompa's Folk Dancing Site - Dance explanations for traditional dancing focused towards Irish dancing, bal folk, flamenco and Argentinian tango.
- International Folk Dancers of Ottawa - Non-profit group for the support and preservation of recreational folk-dancing in the Ottawa-Hull area of Canada. It sponsors events for local folk-dancers and the community at large, and stays in touch with other folk-dancing groups and their events nationally and internationally.
- Colin Hume's web site - Notes on teaching dance technique, as well as articles on folk dance including "Advice for Americans", offered by a country dance caller. Also offers a shareware dance organiser program.
Wikipedia Articles
- Israeli folk dancing - Israeli folk dancing is a form of dance usually performed to music from Israel, with dances generally created by people from Israel.
- Guise Dancing - Guise dancing (sometimes known as goose or geese dancing) is a folk practice celebrated between Christmas Day and Twelfth Night (traditionally also Plough Monday, and some parish feasts) in Cornwall, UK. The principal activity associated with the guise dancing was the performance of a 'traditional' Christmas (or other) play with the players were dressed in a ...
- The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird - The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird is an Italian fairy tale collected by Thomas Frederick Crane in Italian Popular Tales.Thomas Crane, Italian Popular Tales, "The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird" Joseph Jacobs included it in European Folk and Fairy Tales.
- Barn dance - A barn dance is any kind of dance held in a barn, but usually involves traditional or folk music with traditional dancing. Folk dancing events are often also referred to as "barn dances", despite being held in locations other than barns.
- Dancing Turtle Records - Dancing Turtle Records is a London-based independent record label set up by Dominic Brown in 2005, with the aim of releasing cutting edge music from emerging artists around the world. Their releases have a strong leaning towards the genres of folk, electronica, indie and world music.