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Leslie Hyll's International and Ethnic Folk Dance Links

Index to Links

All other links

• Berkeley Folk Dancers - Berkeley, CA
• Changs International Folk Dancers - San Francisco, CA
• Ethnic Dance Chicago
• Evansville International Folk Dancers - Indiana
• Indiana University International Folk Dancers - Bloomington, Indiana
• Indianapolis Folk Dancers - Indiana
• International Folk Dancers of Ottawa
• Madison Folkdance Unlimited - WI
• MIT Folk Dance Club
• Monmouth Folk Dancers - Red Bank, NJ
• Nashville International Folk Dancers - Tennessee
• Newark International Folk Dancers - Newark, Delaware; email
• Oklahoma City International Folk Dancers
• Pittsburgh Tuesday Night International Folk Dance Club
• Speledans - Boston Scandinavian dancing

Dance Calendars, Indices, Compilations

• Austrian Folk Dancing & Folk Dancing in Austria - everything you wanted to know about any kind of folk dancing in Austria (especially Austrian) and Germany from Roland Bauer. In English and German.
• Bavarian Schuhplattler Web Ring
• The Dance Gypsy, all kinds of dancing in New England, nice site
• DanceDB - a well done db of contra, english and swing dance in the US
• Folk Dancing in Australia
• Folk Dancing in Portland, OR
• Folk Dancing in Montana
• Folk Dance Association - This is a folk dance directory
• Folk Dance Federation of California, North
• Folk Dance Federation of California, South
• Folk Dancing in the Netherlands
• New Zealand Folk Club Directory
• NW Folk Dance Directory - Oregon, Washington, some Northern California. A good directory.
• Philly Dance - Seven Day Guide to Folk, Social and Traditional Dancing in and around Philadelphia
• Polish Folk Resources
• Recreational dancing in Oklahoma
• Sapphire Swan Dance Directory - nicely done, simple but effective frames
• San Francisco Bay Area - Links to Balkan, Salsa, Swing, Tango, etc. from Jeffry Katz
• Kiran Wagle - Contra Pages Kiran is an outspoken proponent of contra dancing. Here are pages of pages, articles, info, etc.
• Contra Corners - look up dances nationally - obnoxious music on the site, turn your volume down

Festivals and Camps

• Door County Folk Festival - Wisconsin, USA
• Kentucky Dance Institute
• Mainewoods Dance Camp - in Maine, USA
• NEFFA - New England Folk Festival Association. A really big event. Also there is a good link service here.
• Northwest Folklife Festival - the official site
• Stockton Folk Dance Camp - Stockton, California

Performing Groups

• BYU International Folk Dance Ensemble - It has been quite a few years since I've seen them perform but these kids were excellent.
• Duquesne University Tamburitzans
• Gruppo Folklorico Abruzzese "Giovani Voci Dijoriane" - Atessa, Italy
• Krakowiak - Polish Dancers of Boston. Well done, information pages.
• Leyte Kalipayan Dance Company - Tacloban City, Philippines
• Slovak Domovina Dancers - Windsor, Ontario, Canada
• Westwind International Folk Ensemble - a performing dance group in the San Francisco area

Vendors

• A Romanian Gift Shop in Chicago
• Farthingales - period textiles and costume supplies in Canada
• International Folk Rhythms - my favorite place to buy records, tapes, cds, folk clothes, books, things, etc. Tell Joan that Leslie in Dayton sent you.
• Miami Valley Folk Dancers - folk dance instructions on CD - pretty nifty even if I say so myself!
• Supreme Audio - These folks cater their audio equipment business to dancers. Includes variable speed players. We have purchased several items from them over the years, with much satisfaction.
• Video Tapes- from Yves Moreau

Other Interesting Links

• Gauverband Nordamerika Inc. - national schulplattler & tracht organization
• Indanza - it's in Italian
• IsraeliDances.com - The Israeli Folk Dance Connection
• Lark in the Morning - Arlicles on Ethnic Instruments and such
• Lloyd Shaw Foundation - American folk dancing
• MIT Folk Dance Club Songbook
• Noel's Pilipino Folkdance Glossary - the definitive site on Pilipino folk dance including a comprehensive calendar & links
• Royal Scottish Country Dance Society - the mother organization for Scottish Country Dancing
• The Slovak Heritage and Cultural Society of British Columbia - includes pages on dance groups in Slovakia; very nice pages - lots of folk pictures
• Slovaks and Slovakia - another site in Canada
• Society for International Folk Dancing - in Great Britain
• Texas International Folk Dancers - umbrella organization for IFD in Texas

Dance Descriptions

• American Indian Dances
• Andrew Carnie's Folkdance Notes - the new pages with just Andrew's notes
• Andrew Carnie's Folkdance Notes - Andrew's old pages, indexing dance notes all over the web
• International Folk Dance notes - from Andy Pollock
• Choregraphies de Danses Folkloriques - International folk dance instructions in French
• Dance Notes - Bulgaria, Macedonia & Romania
• Dick Oakes' Folk Dance Descriptions
• English Barn Dance Notes - English, American, and other "country dances"
• Folk Dance Federation of CA (North) Dance Descriptions
• Greek Dance Descriptions - from Asteria Dancing Group
• Hugo's International Folk Dance Description - he has some dance variations that I've never seen
• Irish and Scottish Dance Descriptions
• Miami Valley Folk Dancers Instructions - How we do 'em in Ohio
• Northern Junket - a dance magazine published by Ralph Page from 1949 to 1984, these links go to a master index of dances that appeared in the magazine.
  • Contras
  • Square Dances
  • Folk Dances
• Scandinavian dance instructions - from Folkdancing.com
• Stockton Folk Dance Camp Syllabi

Dancing, Health, & Injuries

• Healthy Dancing - by Michael Hanson
• Notes for Healthy Dancing

Dance Clip Art

News Groups and Mailing Lists

Travel Info

• Universal Currency Converter - by Xenon Laboratories

Credits

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Page last updated 01/02/2013