This is always a work in progress. If you know of an interesting folkdance-related link, please contact us. Ditto if you know that a website is no longer active. Interesting articles:
- Read what the AARP has to say about the benefits of dance!
- Did you know that dancing lowers your risk for dementia?
- Wikpedia entry about the benefits of dance
- All the ways dance benefits you!
- Use it or lose it: Dancing makes you smarter
Other folk-dance related websites:
- Folk Dance Federation of California, South Our sister organization representing folk dance in Southern California with member group listings, publications dance notes, videos, and more.
- Stockton Folk Dance Camp A two week-long dance event in late-July, featuring a faculty of international folk dance teachers from around the world. Now 70 years old and continuing! Includes a collection of dance notations for dances taught at Stockton.
- Sacramento Council Everything you need to know about dancing in the Sacramento area.
- Changs Folk Dancers The first international folk dance community in Northern California and still going strong.
- Berkeley Folk Dancers This organization manages FIVE nights of dancing a week!
- Kolo Festival It’s held every year over Thanksgiving Day weekend, featuring teaching, live music, and lots of dancing. Over 50 years old!
- National Folk Organization The BIG clearinghouse for folk dancing in the United States!
- Eastern European Folklife Center (EEFC) A website for a group dedicated to folk music, folk dance, and folklore in the Balkans.
- Dick Oakes Folk Dance Resources A website chock full of information for dancers, dance teachers, musicians and other performers. Includes maps, sheet music, song lyrics, teacher biographes and more!
- MIT Folk Dance Club Songbook Downloadable PDF.
- Southwest International Folk Dance Institute, sponsors an annual summer folk dance camp ("August Camp") in Socorro, N.M., just south of Albuquerque.
- Jim Gold International International folk tours. Jim Gold organizes Folk Tours to countries such as Bulgaria, Greece, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Croatia several times a year.
- San Francisco Free Folk Festival A extravagant weekend of dancing, singing, teaching, performances, live music. etc.
- International Folk Dancers of Ottawa A great index maintained by International Folk Dancers of Ottawa.