Dance and the world dances with you

Events generally in Northern California

New Years Eve Dance Party

Live Oak Recreation Center 1301 Shattuck Avenue (at Berryman), Berkeley, CA, United States

Ring in the New Year dancing with the Berkeley Folk Dancers in a New Years Eve Dance Party! Potluck dinner at 7pm and dancing 9pm to midnight.

$12

New Years Eve Dance Party and Lucy Chang Memorial Fundraiser

All Saints’ Episcopal 555 Waverley St., Palo Alto, CA, United States

Come help Moveable Feet celebrate the arrival of 2025 with an in-person potluck supper and dance party while raising money for Second Harvest, a local food bank! The combined, New Year’s Eve International Folk Dance Party and Lucy Chang Memorial Second Harvest Fundraiser will kick off on Tuesday, December 31, at 7:00 p.m. and wind […]

Free

Berkeley Folk Dance’s Birthday Ball

Live Oak Recreation Center 1301 Shattuck Avenue (at Berryman), Berkeley, CA, United States

Staying Alive Through the Decades Berkeley Folk Dancers will be 84 years old this year! Join us in welcoming our new members and celebrating Berkeley Folk Dancers' 84th year. Join the celebration! Things have changed in the last eight decades, and things have continued. Costumes can be anything that you have fond memories of: your […]

$12 – $27

Peninsula Folk Dance Party

St. Bede's Church Hall 2650 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA, United States

Join the Peninsula Council Folk Dancers for an all-request dance party with MC Clem Dickey! We'll have dances for all levels, beginning to advanced. Dress comfortably in layers; sneakers or low-heeled dance shoes recommended. Donations to help cover the cost of the hall are welcome. We do dances from nearly every country in the world, […]

$10

Global Folk Dance Party

Online CA, United States
Online Event

We're so happy to start 2025 with our online dance friends! Please join us on Saturday January 18 for our first online dance party of the year. We'll have our usual team of dance leaders and this month we're also joined by guest leaders Tom Roby and Sue Rose. Also, wonderul live music will be […]

Free

Cafe Shalom Dance Party

Congregation Am Tikvah 625 Brotherhood Way, San Francisco, CA, United States

Israeli folk dancers from all over the Bay Area dance the night away at Café Shalom’s Saturday party—a monthly tradition since the 1960s! We play a wonderful mix of oldies and the latest dances based on requests. Dancers of all ages are invited to join the fun on the third Saturday of every month. Saturday […]

$10

Hungarian Folk Dance Class

Hungarian Cultural Center 35660 Cedar Boulevard, Newark, CA, United States

Have you always been interested in folk dance but couldn't commit to weekly practices? Do you hear folk music and feel like dancing but don’t know what steps to take? Eszterlánc is here to help! We’re launching monthly folk dance classes! Who we’re expecting: Anyone who wants to move around a little Anyone who will […]

$10

Hungarian Dance House (Táncház) with Live Music

Hungarian Cultural Center 35660 Cedar Boulevard, Newark, CA, United States

Eszterlánc invites you to join us for a Hungarian Dance Day (táncház) on January 25th, 2025. This is our regular start-of-the-year dance house with live music by Forrás Banda (violin, viola, double bass, cimbalom (hammered dulcimer), moldavian drum). There will be several new features: Free film screening before the dance house: The Hungarian film Akkord […]

$5 – $50

Dance Party with Da! Mozhem

Live Oak Grange 1900 17th Ave, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Dance to your favorite international tunes with Da! Mozhem and Cabrillo Folk Dancers. $15 sliding scale admission Be sure to bring tips for the band. If you are not well please stay home. Da! Mozhem Da! Mozhem at the San Francisco Free Folk FestivalDa! Mozhem plays and sings high-energy pan-Balkan music for the joy of […]

$15

Stockton Folk Dance Winter Weekend

Online CA, United States
Online Event

Instead of making you wait all the way to July to enjoy the wonders of Stockton Folk Dance Camp, enjoy the 2025 Stockton Folk Dance Winter Weekend with Dance - Music - Presentations - Videos - Games - Parties - Virtual Hugs https://youtu.be/jQyjPgmQyjU All online via Zoom Featuring an all-star faculty with more than 70 […]

Free

Federation members can add or update their upcoming dance events to the calendar by sending event details to events@folkdance.com