SAN JOSE, Calif. - A Mexican folklore dance troupe based in San Jose says its mission is to promote Pride through performance. The group started nearly a decade ago and wants to continue creating a ...

It was a weekend of international dancing, workshops, sing-alongs, jamming and partying till the midnight hour. The 48th annual Laguna Folk Dance Festival, held March 2-4 in Laguna Woods Village, ...

Folk dancing is alive and well in Houston. The old world meets the new every Monday night when a group organized by the international folk dancers gets together to carry on the traditions of ethnic ...

Nuestras Raíces is a family-run business that has a mission to keep the rich cultural traditions of Latin America alive by teaching and performing dance and music from Ecuador and surrounding regions.

Group folk dancing has long been considered a non-verbal, universal language that brings people together. The Midwest Folk Dance Association held its June Camp Folk Dance Weekend, June 12 – 15, at ...

On a wood-floored ballroom in Balboa Park, a smattering of international folk dance enthusiasts paced their way Sunday through provincial traditions from Quebec, Scandanavia, Scotland, Romania and ...

How can it be that so many people know how to do the Chicken Dance? I’ve been to events where hundreds of people instantly get up from their chairs and start flapping their arms, shaking their hips ...

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 ...

On Sunday afternoon, Portuguese Hall in Arroyo Grande came alive with dances and festivities during the Folk Dance Federation's May Day in the Village event. Attendees enjoyed live music, watched ...

Igor Moiseyev, the ballet-trained dancer and choreographer whose pioneering vision of theatricalized folk dance not only created an acclaimed Russian company but influenced artists and audiences ...