Dance Description and Resources


A Barn Dance Repertoire aka 'English ceilidh', instructions

American Country Dances On Line

Andrew Carnie's International Folkdance Notes in pdf format

Asteria How to Dance Greek 

Balkan Dance Notes by Tom Deering

Balkanfolk - Balkan folk dances, music and singing

Modern English Country Dance Definitions and Conventions (US site)

Brooks Academy Irish Set Dances

Bulgarian Folklore Dance & Music

Cambridge Contra dance instructions

Celtic Traditions: All About Irish Dance By Eoin Kavanagh

Contra Dances Keiran Wagle's site

Contra Dance / Contradance in the United States, Canada, and the World

Contradancers of Hawaii Collection of Traditional Contra dances

Cypriot Folk Dances

Dancin-Fool Scottish, Scandinavian, American and International Dance in Los Angeles, CA

Dunav folkdance database in Israel - many well-categorised audio recordings and video demonstrations of popular dances

 Earthly Delights all new dances written by John Garden

Estienne's Country Dance Book Playford dances, PDF

Evansville International FolkDancers  in the US a source for dance notes, music, etc.

Facebook.com/folkdanceinstructions.  Both instructions and videos linked through facebook.

Folk Dance Federation of California.  Many dances in alphabetic order with links to videos and notes..

Folk Dance & Midi Archive Austria

Folk Dance Musings alphabetic list and videos of many dances.

Folk Dance Notes Bob Shapiro's many dance descriptions: from Albania to USA

Georgian Folk Dances

Glossary Of Belly Dance Terms

How to dance the ... hambo, polka and schottische, as at US Contra dances

Irish and Scottish dance descriptions

Irish Set Dance Glossary

Israeli Dances searchable database

Izvor Music - Macedonian & Balkan Folk Music

Macedonian in the UK

Michael Herman's Folk Dancer records on CD

Nordic Folk Dance Links

Overview of Common Dances  Learning to dance common dances for brides, grooms and others

Scottish Ceilidh Dance instructions

Welsh Folk Dances

What Are Céilí and Irish Set Dancing?

What is Contra Dance?