Celebrations of folk music and dance take place around Bohemia, Silesia and Moravia each year, drawing hundreds of admirers.

A new student organization dedicated to teaching and performing Mexican folklore dances has been created at the University of Wisconsin. Grupo Folklorico De UW–Madison is a new organization on a ...

For more than six decades, the University of Chicago Folk Festival has brought together an array of musicians and performers from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds—all united through a love for ...

When COVID-19 ended many of UMass Lowell’s student activities last spring, UML Folk Dance Club President Sarah Bustin didn’t take it sitting down. Life without folk dance would be difficult for Bustin ...

YILAN, Taiwan (JTA) — It was a cool spring day in Yilan, a town on Taiwan’s northeast coast known for its picturesque rice fields and delicious spring onions. On a concrete clearing beneath a bridge ...

A CONFERENCE on folk-dancing, which is being held in London on July 15-20 in connexion with an International Folk-Dance Festival, will afford an exceptionally favourable opportunity for the ...

Every Tuesday night, a large group holds hands and sways in a circle, while the strains of French accordions float through the warm air of downtown Boulder. This isn’t a cult — at least not a ...

After two years as virtual, the free event at Spokane Community College offers live entertainment Saturday and Nov. 13 from about 80 performers. The variety includes Scottish pipes and dancers, ...

Danny Pollock's interest in Israeli folk dance blossomed in childhood. At age 10, he would sit patiently as his mother took lessons, observing her movements. Then one day as he sat watching, the ...

IN another column of this issue of NATURE (see p. 154) there appears a brief account of the conference, which formed part of the International Folk Dance Festival held in London last week. Lack of ...