Welcome to Folk Dancing in Canberra

INDEX

Introduction	Featured Region: Brittany
Dance Glossary	Folk Dancing in the ACT
Dance Humour	Breton Fairy Tales & Recipes
Dance Links	Photo Gallery
Dance Etiquette	Special Date of Cultural Interest

Introduction

~~~No experience or partner is necessary!~~~

Folk Dancing is excellent for pleasurable fitness and a friendly sociable atmosphere. International Folk Dancing is very family oriented. Anyone from 5 to 90+ years of age can (and do!) participate and enjoy themselves.

Canberra is Australia's National Capital, located about 300 km southwest of Sydney and about 100 km inland from the east coast.  It is a very beautiful city of approximately 300,000 people, with lots of bush and parks surrounding it and a large lake at its centre. We have a temperate climate with hot summers and frosts in winter. This means lots of blossoms and flowering bulbs in spring and gloriously coloured leaves on the trees in autumn.  One of our main festivals is Floriade, which is held during September/October.  There are spectacular displays of flowers and lots of accompanying artistic events. Canberra also hosts the National Folk Festival which runs for five days over Easter, every year. Approximately 40,000 people attend.

We will be regularly featuring a region or country. We will have dance descriptions, cultural background, hopefully some music and recipes too. Our first region is Brittany.

This section is devoted to special dates of cultural interest.  It will be changed often. (Currently removed - sorry...)

Macedonian Bitola

Dance Humour

Are you addicted to Folk Dance? Follow this link to take the Dance-aholic Test :-)

Attributed to Dick Crum, a folk dance teacher:

1. Beginning dancer: Knows nothing.

2. Intermediate dancer: Knows everything, too good to dance with beginners.

3. Hotshot dancer: Too good to dance with anyone.

4. Advanced dancer: Dances everything, especially with beginners.

In Michigan, a few years ago, there was a Bulgarian Folk Music Ensemble with the name "A Little Bitov Heaven"! (Bitov is the name for a group of Bulgarian folk musicians.)

Women have to do everything a man does but backwards and in high heels! -Ginger Rogers

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(Q)  Why did God invent Line Dancing?
(A)  So the Morris Dancers would have something to laugh at.

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