Links
Folk Dance Etiquette – some great advice from Dick Oakes.
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Dance Groups in Austin
- Village International Folk Dancers (Austin)
- Austin Scandinavian Dancing
- Csardas Hungarian Dancers (Austin)
- Contra Dancing in Texas, a complete list of contra dancing in Texas.
- Austin Zydeco Dancers.
- Austin Scottish Dance Society
- Scottish Country Dance Alliance:
- Clickity Cloggers
- Four on the Floor, Lindy and Swing classes.
- Austin Swing Syndicate, Lindy, swing, Balboa, and several other dance events.
For other folk dancing in Texas and the southwest, check out:
- Texas International Folk Dancers, a great resource for folk dancing in the southwest, including the annual Texas Camp.
Musicians
- AIO, playing engaging world music from a variety of countries
- Slavadillo
- Homegrown Contra Band
- Don Weeda
- Shirley Johnson
- Austin Friends of Traditional Music
Other great links
- Folk Dance Etiquette Posters – a fun collection drawn by Nancy McGowan Pruitt
- International Folk Dance resources page maintained by Dick Oakes
- Dunav.org – a sharing place for Balkan music, dance notes, and instructions
- Recfd.com at one time this was a good resource for dance music. The domain expired on 4/21/11. We hope it comes back.
- A Dance Passion Essay Dancing All the Dances as Long as I Can by Robert Fulghum
- The Pheonix International Folk Dancers maintains great links to national folk dance groups and camps.
- Dancing makes you smarter!
- Sketchy guys – a really good guide on how men should conduct themselves at dance events. Prepared by Richard Powers, who teaches vintage dance at Stanford.
- Texas State Federation of
Square and Round Dancers® - Collection of International Folk Dances hosted on Archive.org
- Folk Dancing as a Soul Celebration – a great commentary about folk dancing by Adam Blatner.
Tributes
- Phil Harris – Several contributions. Added July 29th, 2010. Updated August 5th, 2010.