Where to Dance

Updated April 11, 2004

Here is a list of links to folk dance location information pages. If your group is not listed please do one of the following, and I will post it here.

• Email me with the URL of your group's website. My email address is rshapiro11@cox.net
• Send me a flyer for your group. My snail mail address is: Robert Shapiro, 2530 NW 62nd St., Topeka, KS 66618
• Email me with the basic information for your group. (When and where it meets, cost, what kind of dancing, etc.)

United States

ALASKA

• Alaska general
• Juneau International Folkdancers You will have to go to near the bottom of the page to see the information about this group.

ARIZONA

• Phoenix International Folk Dancers Phoenix
• Mecholot Esh Israeli Dancing Scottsdale
• Things Folkish in Tucson and Arizona

ARKANSAS

• Folk Dancing in Fayetteville

CALIFORNIA

• Humboldt Folk Dance Club Arcata
• Berkeley Folkdancers Berkeley
• Narodni Folk Dancers of Long Beach Long Beach
• Stanford International Dancers Palo Alto
• San Diego general
• Chang's International Folk Dancers San Francisco
• Mandala Folk Dance Center San Francisco
• Merhaba Santa Barbara
• Sonoma County Folk Dancers Sonoma County general

COLORADO

• Boulder International Folk Dancers Boulder
• University Folk Dancers Boulder
• Summer dancing in Boulder  Boulder

CONNECTICUT

• Jim Gold's classes Darien (click on Fridays
• Always on Sunday West Hartford

DELAWARE

• Arden Gild Hall Sometimes it's Square Dancing, sometimes Folk Dancing. Check out the schedule.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

• Washington D. C. Area IFD

FLORIDA

• Florida general
• International Folk Dancers of Collier County Note: This site hasn't been updated since 1998. If you want to call the numbers listed on the site, the area code is 941.
• Fort Myers Contra Dancing Fort Myers
• University of Florida International Folk Dancers Gainesville
• Pensacola International Folk Dancers Pensacola
• Middle Eastern Dance Pensacola
• Tampa Festival Folk Dancers

GEORGIA

HAWAII

• IFD of Hawaii Honolulu

ILLINOIS

• Argonne Folk Dance Club 
• Ethnic Dance Chicago This site covers both the EDC group and also has a calendar for other dancing in the Chicago area.
• Chicago Barn Dance Company
• Chicago Area
• International Folkdancing Skokie
• Illini Folk Dance Society Urbana-Champagne

INDIANA

• Indiana University International Folk Dancers Bloomington
• Indy Folk Dancers Indianapolis
• South Bend Folk Dancers South Bend

KANSAS

• Lawrence folk dancing Lawrence
• Topeka Folk Dancers Topeka - International and Israeili

MAINE

• DEFFA Newsletter Check the list for Bar Harbor, Brunswick,and Portland. They have international folk dancing

MARYLAND

• Israeli Folk Dancing (all oldies [before 1990]) Potomac

MASSACHUSETTS

• Zdravets - Boston's Friendly Bulgarian Band Arlington
• Amherst International Folk Dancing
• International Folk Dance   Belmont - Call 781-662-7475 for more information.
• Boston Area Folk Dancing
• Speledans Boston Scandinavian group
• (Ken Avner's Israeli group) Brookline
• Cambridge Folk Orchesta monthly parties Cambridge
• MIT Folk Dance Club Cambridge
• Framingham Folk Dancers Note: According to their site, they don't dance during the summer (last day for 2002 is June 12).

MICHIGAN

• Michigan general
• Ann Arbor Folk Dancers
• University of Michigan Turkish Folk Dance Group Ann Arbor - According to the site, it's open to everybody
• Old World Dance Cooperative (OWDC) Detroit
• Scandinavian Turning Dance Detroit
• Marquette Folk Dancers Marquette (This is a newspaper article about the group. The contact's phone number is at the bottom of the article.)
• Detroit Folkdance Club Royal Oak

MINNESOTA

• F-M International Folk Dance Association See North Dakota for description
• Tapestry Folkdance Center - Twin Cities

MISSOURI

• Kansas City general
• International Folk Dance Association of University City St. Louis area
• St. Louis general

MONTANA

NEBRASKA

• Omaha International Folk Dancers Omaha

NEVADA

• Ethnic Express Folk Dancers Las Vegas
• Israeli Folk Dance Reno Reno

NEW HAMPSHIRE

• Folk Dancing at Neskaya Franconia

NEW JERSEY

• Jim Gold's classes Click on Mondays or Tuesdays
• Morristown Folkdancers Bernardsville (The information is towards the bottom of the page under Dancing).
• Monmouth Folk Dancers
• Princeton Friday Night Folk Dancing
• Dance with Tamar Tenafly

NEW MEXICO

• New Mexico Folk Dance
• New Mexico general
• Mesilla Valley International Folk Dancers Las Cruces
• Southern New Mexico Music and Dance Society Las Cruces Contras

NEW YORK

• Jim Gold's classes Bedford, Upper Nyack
• Brooklyn Heights International Folkdancers Brooklyn -  George Tomov, instructor
• Free Dancing in Central Park Manhattan
• Honey Goldfein-Perry's Israeli classes East Meadow, Queens, Manhattan
• International Folk Dancing at Cornell Ithaca
• Michael Ginsburg's groups Manhattan
• Dance with Tamar Manhattan Israeli Class
• Benny Levy's classes Plainview, Woodmere, (Note: much of the instruction in the Wednesday night class is in Hebrew)
• International Dancing in the Rochester Area Rochester
• Syracuse International Folk Dancers

NORTH CAROLINA

• Chapel Hill International Folk Dancers

NORTH DAKOTA

• F-M International Folk Dance Association

OHIO

• Cincinnati Folk Dancers Cincinnati
• UC Folk Dancers Cincinnati
• University Folk Dance Circle Cleveland
• Columbus Folk Dancers Columbus
• Miami Valley Folk Dancers Dayton
• Southern Slavic Folk Dancing Dayton

OKLAHOMA

• Oklahoma City International Folk Dancers
• Tulsa International Folk Dancers

OREGON

• NW Folk Dance Regular EventsOregon general

PENNSYLVANIA

• Beaver Folk Dancing Philadelphia area
• The Tuesday Night Folk Dancers Pittsburgh
• Susquehanna International Dancers Bloomsburg

RHODE ISLAND

• Island Folk Dance and Song Society> Jamestown

TENNESSEE

• Nashville International Folk Dancers Nashville
• Nashville Israeli Folk Dancers Nashville
• Oak Ridge International Folk Dancers Oak Ridge

TEXAS

• Austin general Austin
• Austin International Folk Dancers Austin
• University of Texas Hungarian Dancers Austin
• Dallas International Folk Dancers Dallas
• El Paso International Folk Dancers El Paso
• Houston International Folk Dancers Houston

UTAH

• Israeli Folk Dancing Salt Lake City

VIRGINIA

• Richmond area dancing
• Virginia Beach International Folk Dance Club

WASHINGTON

• Balkana Youth Dance Ensemble Seattle area - This is primarily a performing group (ages 7-25), but according to the director, "Everyone is welcome to come and dance with the company and all members perform."
• University of Washington Seattle
• Seattle general
• Seattle Scandinavian
• WSU Pullman International Folk Dancers  Pullman
• Walla Walla International Folk Dancers

WISCONSIN

• Eau Claire International Folk Dancers
• Israeli Folk Dancing Madison (This is an e-mail link which is the only information I have).
• Madison Folkdance Unlimited
• Milwaukee Folk Dance

Outside the United States

AUSTRALIA

• Folk Dancing in Australia
• Folk Dance Canberra
• Perth International Folk Dance Group

CANADA

Alberta

• Calgary Folkdance Fridays
• Edmonton IFD

British Columbia

• Vancouver International Folk Dancers British Columbia - Vancouver
• Folk Dancing in Victoria British Columbia - Victoria
• Burnaby International Folk Dancers Burnaby

Nova Scotia

• Dance Nova Scotia Dartmouth, Halifax (Halifax group not meeting during summer. New schedule will be posted in fall.

Ontario

• Ontario FD Association  Primarily an invitation to join, but it does list a couple of locations.
• International Folk Dancers of Ottowa
• IFDC at the University of Toronto Toronto

ENGLAND

• UK Dance Events All types of folk dancing all over England
• Society for International Folk Dancing UK listings
• Folk Around Bristol
• Chelmsford Folk Dancers
• Cornwall
• University of Exeter
• English Folk Dance and Song Society London
• Lancashire Folk Lancashire 
• Rutland Folk Dance Club
• Friday Folk St. Albans

ITALY

• Israeli Dancing in Italy

NETHERLANDS

• Netherlands

NEW ZEALAND

• New Zealand Folk Club Directory
• Ruritanian IFD Club
• Farandol Folk Dancers Christchurch

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