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 10 images!)
- AADS vzw (Lovendegem, Belgium: Folk dance CDs, others.)
- 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 dance videos, dance music, dance books, entertainment, dance seminars, dance workshops, convention entertainment, sound systems, dance props, dance school assemblies, dance floors, and physical education resources.)
- 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.)
- Dance to the Music of the World (Leslie Hyll's International and Ethnic Folk Dance Links.)
- 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.)
- 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.)
- 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.)
- International Folkdance Link Page (Piet Carels page from The Netherlands.)
- 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)
- Metronome for Windoze computers (Weird Metronome for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, or XP.)
- 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.)
- 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 Greenlake Folk Dancers of Seattle.)
- Recreational Folk Dancing (Bob Shapiro's site has many dance descriptions.)
- 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