Twice a month, community members come together to hear fiddles, the voice of a caller and join hands in a traditional folk dance dating back to the 1700s — contra dancing. In Urbana, this traditional ...

The children learn a dance specially devised for them using folk-dance steps and gesture from Northern India.

The dance uses movements experienced in the English folk dance programmes during the first half of the term, but with specific steps from the Irish folk tradition.

Susan Jurgelski Jul 24, 2006 Jul 24, 2006 Updated Sep 11, 2013 At long last, he and his fellow keepers of German culture in the Lancaster Liederkranz folk-dance group Alpenrose Schuhplattler ...