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3½ Minute Folk Dance By Susan Wickett-Ford

About Biserka-Bojerka By Dick Crum
About Dajčovo horo By Dick Crum
About Dobrudžanska rŭka By Dick Oakes
About Ersko kolo By Dick Crum
About Ličko kolo By Dick Crum
About Norway By Roo Lester
About Orijent By Dick Crum
About Rŭčenica By Dick Crum
Advocating for More Couple Dances By Loui Tucker
Afghan Dance By Katherine St. John
Albanian Folklore Compiled by Jay Michtom
Alcohol and the Dance By Michael Kuharski
Allure of the Tango By Richard Duree
American Rom, 1987 By Carol Silverman
American Rom, 1995 By Ivan "John" Filcich
Ancient Egyptian Dance By Paul Pritchard
Andorran Dance and Music By Paul Pritchard
Animated Folk Dance GIFs By Marucho
Ankle, Foot, and Folk Dance By Cynthia and Sheldon Berrol
Appalachian Dance and Music By Paul Pritchard
Are You a Dance-Aholic? By Loui Tucker
Argentine Tango By Ned & Marian Gault
Armenia and the Armenians By Tom Bozigian
Armenian Dance By Tom Bozigian
Armenian Dance History By Gary and Susan Lind-Sinanian
Armenian Dances By Gary and Susan Lind-Sinanian
Armenian Dancing By Anthony Shay
Armenian Folk Dance Types By Ron Houston
Art and Science of Dance Ethnology By Richard Duree
Attending Folk Dance Camps By Jim Rothman
Attracting and Retaining New Folk Dancers By Mindy Belli
Attracting New Dancers By Andrew Carnie
Australian Aborigine Dancing By Paul Pritchard
Australian Colonial Dancing By David Ogilvie, Ann D'Arcy, and Susan Maddrell
Austrian Courting-Type Dances By Morry Gelman
Austrian Dance By Paul Pritchard

Bagpipes By Richard Maheu
Balkan Dance By Dick Crum
Balkan Dances By Lou Pechi
Balkan Words from Turkish By Michael Kuharski
Balkanalia Sheet Music By Richard Geisler
Ballroom Dance By Bill Pillich
Basic Steps for Bourées By Germain and Louise Hebert
Basic Steps for Hungarian Dances By Andor Czompo
Basque Jota By Roo Lester
Basque Musical Instruments By Victor Eskenazi
Basques and Their Dances By Candi deAlaiza
Beginners – Behavior Basics By Loui Tucker
Beginners – Care and Feeding By Loui Tucker
Beginning Non-Partner Techniques By Suzanne Rocca-Butler
Belá Bartók and the Music of the Balkans By M.J. Corry
Beware of Gift Giving Customs in Foreign Lands Compiled by Dick Oakes
Beware of Your Behavior in Foreign Lands Compiled by Dick Oakes
Biblical Roots in Jewish Dance By Karen Codman
Books A Bibliography
Boys' Night Out in Leadville By Anthony Shay
Brazilian Dance Compiled by Jay Michtom
Breton Folk Dance By Pavel Ricardovich
British Isles and Scandinavia Sheet Music By Richard Geisler
Bučimiš By Richard Unciano
Buck and Big Circle Dancing in Appalachia By Richard Duree
Building a Dance Community By Chris Kermiet
Building the Folk Dance Archive, Part 1 By Ron Houston
Building the Folk Dance Archive, Part 2 By Ron Houston
Building the Folk Dance Archive, Part 3 By Ron Houston
Building the Folk Dance Archive, Part 4 By Ron Houston
Bulgaria and Its Dances By Michel Cartier
Bulgarian Collection Sheet Music By Richard Geisler
Bulgarian Dance By Jaap Leegwater
Bulgarian Folk Music Instruments By Yves Moreau
Bulgarian Village Music By Martin Koenig
Buy Their CDs! By Lou Pechi

Dance and Folklore of the Tyrol By Richard Duree
Dance and Music in Dixie – 1860-1865 By Paul T. Pritchard
Dance and Music of Anatolia By Mitch and Laurie Allen, 1984
Dance and Music of Far Northern Sweden By Kenneth Seeman
Dance Definitions Compiled by Dick Oakes
Dance in Colonial Virginia By Paul T. Pritchard
Dance in India By Paul T. Pritchard
Dance in the Old West By Richard Duree
Dance Movement Compiled by Dick Oakes
Dance Tips By Richard Duree
Dances of France By Marvin Smith and Teri Hoffman
Dances of Georgia By Graham Hempel
Dances of the Victorian Old West By Richard Duree
Dances of Poland By Ada Dziewanowskaé
Dances of Pontos, Greece By Nikos Savvidis
Dances of Slovakia By Vonnie R. Brown
Dancing in Biblical Times By Vyts Beliajus
Dancing in Greece By Athan Karras
Dancing in Turkey By Hugh Thurston
Dancing in Your Heart By Lou Pechi
Dancing Seems Faster By Lou Pechi
Decline and Resurrection of International Folk Dance Compiled by Dick Oakes
Dick Crum Culture Session, 1979 Submitted by Carol McGinn
Dick Crum Culture Session, 1980 Submitted by Carol McGinn
Dick Crum Culture Session, 1981 Submitted by Carol McGinn
Dick Crum Culture Session, 2005 By Dick Crum
Dilemma of the Basic Locomotor Movements By Ann I. Czompo
Do It Right the First Time By Dick Crum
Dobrudžan Dances By Richard Unciano

Early California Fandango By Richard Duree
East is East and West is West By Ron Houston
Efxinos Pontos By Martin Koenig
English as the Preferred European Language By A. Nony Mous
English Country Dancing By Marianne Taylor
English Dance Steps, Terms, and Styling By John Hancock
English Dance Terms By Tom Kruskal
English is Tough Stuff Courtesy of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Enjoy Dancing By Lou Pechi
Enjoy the Taste By Lou Pechi
Enrich Your Dance By Richard Duree
Ethnic Dances of Greece By John Pappas
Europe Collection Sheet Music By Richard Geisler
Everybody Dance Magazine By Rudy Dannes
Evolution of English Ballroom Dance Style By Richard Powers
Evolution of Jewish Folk Dance By Nathan Vizonsky

Federation Survey, 2016 By Marshall Cates
Festival Planning for Dunces By Bob Altman
Field Theory of Dance By Michael Kuharski
Folk and Ritual Dance of Korea By Paul T. Pritchard
Folk Dance Among the Greeks By Athan Karras
Folk Dance and Culture in Romania By Ron La Farge
Folk Dance Categories and Their Problems By Dick Crum
Folk Dance Demise By David Henry
Folk Dance Etiquette By Dick Oakes
Folk Dance Etiquette By Lou Pechi
Folk Dance Etiquette By Richard Powers
Folk Dance for Health By Rick Allen
Folk Dance in New Zealand By Sylvia Vowless
Folk Dance in North America By Vyts Beliajus
Folk Dance of Israel By Gurit Kadman
Folk Dance Revival By Mitch and Laurie Allen
Folk Dance Situation By Vyts Beliajus
Folk Dance T-Shirts By Lou Pechi
Folk Dance Tips Courtesy of the Juneau International Folkdancers
Folk Dance Traditions of Ireland By Danny Hathaway
Folk Dances from Scandinavia By Anta Ryman
Folk Dances in Italy By Anton Giulio Bragaglia
Folk Dances of Bulgaria By Yves Moreau
Folk Dances of Cono Sur By Dick Crum
Folk Dances of Portugal By Paul T. Pritchard
Folk Dances of Russia By Graham Hempel
Folk Dances of the Hollanders By Rod La Farge
Folk Dancing's Third Dimension By Richard Duree
Folk Dancing and Health By John Gratiot, M.D.
Folk Dancing in Switzerland By Karin Gottier
Folk Dancing in the South By Jerry Duke
Folk Music and Dance of Finland By Per-Erik Boij
Folk Music and Dance of Georgia By Paul T. Pritchard
Folk vs. Ethnic: What Is the Difference? By Richard Duree
Foothill Folk Dancers: A Learning Experience for All By Jan Rayman
Forms of Folk Dance Notation By Dick Oakes
From the Village to the Stage: Ritual Dance and Dancers By Gail Kligman

Gadjo in the Romani Camp By Ivan "John" Filcich
Gankino, Kopanica, and More in 11/16 By Richard Unciano
Geisler Tune Books By Richard Geisler
Getting Ready for Camp Compiled by Loui Tucker
Gold Miners Dances By Robin Evanchuk
Greek Costume By Athan Karras
Greek Dance: An Ancient Link – A living Heritage By Athan Karras
Greek Dance By Athan Karras
Greek Dance and Music By Athan Karras
Greek Dance Then and Now and It's Relation to Orff-Schulwerk By Athan Karras
Greek Dance Thrives By Athan Karras
Greek Folk Music and Dance By Athan Karras
Greek Traditions in Music and Dance By Athan Karras

Happy Music Making By Lou Pechi
Hints on Teaching Contras By Grace Wolf
Historical Notes on the Norwegian Rørospols By John Hancock
Historical Notes on the Swedish Bakmes By Gordon Tracie
Historical Notes on the Swedish Gammal Schottis By Gordon Tracie
Historical Notes on the Swedish Hambo By Gordon Tracie
Historical Notes on the Swedish Polska By Gordon Tracie
Historical Notes on the Swedish Polska (an Advance Word) By Gordon Tracie
Historical Notes on Some Swedish Dances By Gordon Tracie
History of Jewish Costume By Alfred Rubens and Mary Sward
History of Ragtime Dance By Richard Powers
History of the Armenian Dance By Gary and Susan Lind-Sinanian
History of the Mazurka By Gene Fuller
History of the Waltz By Jay Michtom
Hokey Pokey By Jeff Brechlin
Hootchie Kootchie By Richard Duree
Horo, Hora, Oro, Kolo By Vyts F. Beliajus
How Folk Dancing Grew By Ron Houston
How I Annoyed Bulgarian Communists and Found Folklore By Dennis Boxell
How I Made a Macedonian Kaval By Melissa Miller
How to Build a Bulgarian or Macedonian Kaval By Mike Slama
How to Make a Large Macedonian Tapan By Dave Golber
How to Re-Bag a Gajda By Jim McGill
How to Start a Folk Dance Club By Bruce Botelho
How to Start a Folk Dance Group By Dave Slater
Hula By Merilyn Gentry and Nora Nuckles
Hungarian Dance Names By Andor Czompo
Hungarian Dance Steps By Andor Czompo
Hungarian Dance Terms Compiled by Dick Oakes
Hungarian Folk Bands and Their Instruments By Kálmán Magyar
Hungarian Folk Dance Types and Dialects By Kálmán Magyar
Hungarian Pre-Wedding Customs By Andor and Ann Czompo

Jämtländsk Bakmes Step from Kall, Jämtland By Gordon Tracie
Japanese Folk Dance By Paul T. Pritchard

Kolo By Rubi Vučeta
Kolo Dancing in America By Dick Crum
Kolo Grammar Ivan "John" Filcich
Kolo Lines By Ivan "John" Filcich
Kolo, Some Background By Dick Crum
Krasi's Art' By Kris Marino
Kwakiutl Dance Theatre By Leona Wood

Language of the Fan By Richard Duree
Last Bastion of the Skirt By Connie and Marianne Taylor
Latvian History and Culture By Mirdza Jaunzemis
Leader in Greek Dance By Athan Karras
Learning to Folk Dance Courtesy of IFD, Lawrence, KS
Lebanese Dances By Samira Tamer
Let's Bring Folks Back to Recreational Folk Dancing By Sanna Longden
Life is Dancing By Lou Pechi
Lil' History on Folk Dancin' By Rudy Dannes
Limericks By Carl Pilsecker
Limericks By Dick Oakes
Limericks By By Loui Tucker
Lithuanian Folk Dances By I. Lingis
Looking for the "Source" By Rae Tauber
Louisiana French Dancing By Diana Polizo-Schlesinger

Macedonian Dances of Promahi By Dennis Boxell
Magicking in the Spring By Ron La Farge
Many Facets of Folk/Ethnic Dance By Richard Duree
Meetup By Jan Rayman
Métis Dancing By Jeremy Hull
Mexican Dance By Tamara Warta
Mezöségi Táncok By Steve Kotansky
MITPlayer By Neil Rosen, Murray Spiegel, and Charlie Kluepfel
Motif Analysis in Ethnic Dance Research By Richard Duree
Murphy's Law for Folk Dancers By Forrest Holroyd
Music and Dance of Resija By Pavle Merkú
Mysterious Age-Old Zurna By Bora Özkoök
Myth of the Melting Pot By Caroline Golab

National Folk Organization By Mary Bee Jensen
National Geographic Magazine Folklore Index 1914-1997 By Richard Duree
Native American Affairs By Paul T. Pritchard
Native American Dance By Paul T. Pritchard
Native American Dance Traditions By Carl Pilsecker
Native American Dances By Marvin Smith and Teri Hoffman
Navajo Tradition Keepers By Reed Hudleston
Norwegian Dance By Alix Cordray

Old-Time Kolos By Dick Crum
On the Dancing and Teaching of the Swedish Hambo By Gordon Tracie
Opanke By Bora Gajicki
Oriental Dance By Leona Wood
Origin of Misirlou By Ron Houston
Origin of the Folk Orchestra in Bulgaria By Tim Rice
Origins of Irish Dance By Margie Lenihan Tiritilli
Our Folk Dance Universe By Lou Pechi

Peoples of the North Caucasus By Ron Wixman
Peruvian Dance and Culture By Laura Bracamonte
Philippine Folk Dances By Bernardo T. Pedere
Planning a Party? By Jane Farwell
Player Reviews for Dancing By John M. Clement
Polish Dance Steps and Terms By Morley Leyton
Polish Tidbits By Rod La Farge
Polynesian History By Marvin Smith and Teri Hoffman
Pontian Music and Dance By Dennis Boxell
Portuguese Dances By Jay Michtom
Power of Negative Dancing By Lou Pechi
Prayer for Tourists Courtesy of Rae Tauber

Quo Vadis, Domine? By Ron Houston

Ragtime Dance History By Richard Duree
Real vs. Cheorographed Folk Dances By Richard Duree
Rebetika By Athan Karras
Records and All That Dusty Stuff By Richard "Dick" Killian
Recreation in Folk Dancing By Ron Houston
Removing Clicks in Your Music By John M. Clement
Revitalization Committee Report By Preston Ashbourne
Richard Geisler Sheet Music By Richard Geisler
Right and Left By Lou Pechi
Rom Music and Dance By Carol Silverman
Romania's Căluşarii By Richard Duree
Romanian Dance and Music By Theodor Vasilescu
Romanian Folk Dance and Culture By Ron La Farge
Romanian Folk Music Instruments By Ron La Farge
Romanian Folklore By Ron La Farge
Romanian Pipes of Pan By David Vinski
Roots of American Dance By Fred Vajda
Round Dance Glossary By Lambert Knox
Russian Dance and Music By Jay Michtom
Russian Folk Dance By Marvin Smith and Teri Hoffman

Scandinavian Dance By Gordon Tracie
Scandinavian Dance Differences By Stefanie Holzman
Scandinavian Impressions By Dick Oakes
Scottish Country Dancing By Marianne Taylor
Scottish Patterns, Terms, and Styling By C. Stewart Smith
Scottish Step Dancing By Camrin MacKnight
Search for Folk Dancing in Europe By Ricky Holden
Set Dances of Ireland By Danny Hathaway
Sex and Power in the Balkans By Bette S. Denich
Sheet Music By Richard Geisler
Significance of Dance in the Greek Way of Life By Athan Karras
Slovak Folk Dances By Vonnie Brown
Slovakia: "Switzerland without the Crowds" By Richard Duree
Slovenia: "European Jewel" By Richard Duree
Smile! By Dick Oakes
So You Want to Start a Dance Class By Loui Tucker
Social Dances of the Ragtime Era By Richard Powers
Some of My Favorite Dances are Choreographed! By Loui Tucker
Some Thoughts on Experienced Dancers By Chris Kermiet
Šop Dances of Bulgaria By Richard Unciano
Sounding the Hearthstone By Danny Hathaway
Source Book for Ethnic and Vintage Dance Teachers By Richard Duree
South Slavic Folktales By Dennis Boxell
Special Characters Compiled by Dick Oakes
Special Characters Chart By Dick Oakes
Square Dance Shorthand By Jack McKay
Square Dancing By Mitch and Laurie Allen
Standard Abbreviations for Folk Dance Descriptions By Dick Oakes
Starting Dances By Lou Pechi
Statewide: 42 Years and Counting By Larry Getchell
Style in Square Dancing By Jerry Helt
Styles of Appalachian Clog Dance By Jerry Helt
Suggestions for International Folk Dance Programmers By Dick Oakes
Survival or Extinction By Dr. Anthony Shay
Swedish Dance By Gordon Tracie

Tahiti in Music and Dance By Marvin Smith and Teri Hoffman
Táncház: Back to the Roots By Mária Sági
Tango Family Tree By Richard Powers
Tatra Mountains By Janina Krzyżanowska
Teaching Beginners By Dave Slater
Teaching Children to Folk Dance By Mady Taylor
Teaching Folk Dance By Dick Oakes
Teaching Greek Folk Dances By Athan Karras
Teaching Tips By Jerry Duke
Ten Commandments for Folk Dancers By Jack Goldberg
Ten Commandments for Travelers Courtesy of Rae Tauber
Tennis Shoes By Lou Pechi
The Intersection: Beginnings By Dick Oakes
The Intersection Folk Arts Center By Athan Karras
The Intersection: I Remember By Paul Sheldon
The Intersection: A Look Back By Athan Karras
The Intersection: The End of an Era By Athan Karras
The Intersection: Farewell By Athan Karras
There's Someting About Kolos By Ivan "John" Filcich
They Never Tried By Lou Pechi
Three Kinds of Teachers: Which Shall We Follow? By Sarah Gertrude Knott
Times are a Changin' By Sidney Messer
Tips for Folk Dancers By Vonnie Brown
Tips for New Dancers By Loui Tucker
Traditional American Community Dance By Chris Kermiet
Traditional Macedonian Dance By Paul T. Pritchard
Travel in Safety By Richard Duree
Traveling in the Balkans By Richard Duree
Traveling Russia and the Baltic States By Chris Tubutis
Turkish Culture and Dances By Sandy Helperin
Turkish Folk Dance Origins By Bora Özkök
Two-Sex Dancer By Patricia Batt
Types of Israeli Non-Partner Dances By Loui Tucker

Ukrainian Dance and Music By Natalie Kononenko
Ukrainian Dance Terms By Dick Oakes
Ukrainian Folk Dance By Marvin Smith and Teri Hoffman

Values of Greek Dance in Our Society Today By Athan Karras
Viennese Waltz By Walter Grothe
Village Dance Music By Richard Geisler
Vlach Dances from the Village of Osnić By Steve Kotansky

Wallflower Phenomenon By Michel Breger
Waltz, One Step, and Tango Partnering Tips By Richard Powers
We Need a Commercial! By Loui Tucker
Welsh Folk Dance History By Dale Hyde
What's in a Name? By Vyts Beliajus
What's Your Element? By Richard Treitel
What's Wrong With Our Folk Dancing? By Song Chang
What is Authenticity in Folk Dance? By Dr. Anthony Shay
What is Folk/Ethnic Dance? By Richard Duree
What Women Should Wear Overseas By Richard Duree
When Serbians Dance By Dennis Boxell
Where Have All the Children Gone? By Paul T. Pritchard
Who are Scottish Folk and What is Their Dancing? By Richard N. Goss
Whose Dance is This? By Loui Tucker
Why Folk Dancing? By Vyts Beliajus
Why So Many Greeks Dance Today By Athan Karras
Why Visitors Don't Come Back, Another Point of View, and Other Comments By Richard Duree, Sandy Helperin, and Jan Rayman
Women Instrumentalists in Bulgaria By Ron Houston
Writing Folk Dance Descriptions By Dick Oakes

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Yaqui Easter By Richard Duree
Yemenite Dancing By Lisa Codman Arkin
Yemenite Jewish Dance By Israel Yakovee
Yianitsari and Boules of Naoussa By Dennis Boxell
Yugoslav Collection Sheet Music By Richard Geisler

Zagorisios By Richard Unciano
Zorba's Dance From GEO Finland

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