On a Friday evening in Yerevan, the sound of traditional Armenian music echoes across a crowded square. One by one, people ...

India is a land of rich culture and heritage. This mix of cultures and diversities has given the nation many types of dance forms. Every state in India has its own dancing style. Some of them came ...

The history of dance can be categorised into three main time divisions: (i)The evidence of dance forms found in the cave paintings, engravings, and sculptures of the Indus Valley Civilisation and ...

If you’ve been craving some new indie folk artists for your playlist, you’ve landed on the right page. We have been keeping a close ear to the indie folk scene lately, and a handful of new names have ...

Candice is a writer and horror obsessive living in Athens, Georgia, with her husband and their very handsome cat. It was partly her strong interest in the films of Bong Joon-ho and Park Chan-wook that ...

The Vancouver Folk Music Festival has announced the lineup for its 49th annual event, loaded with legends and rising stars from Canada, Europe and around the world. English folk icon and activist ...

In this series, we celebrate special interest groups. Whether you get together to play tennis, board games, take long walks, eat lunch, create art, connect with your neighbors or gather with friends, ...

Why is the young man at right leaping over a kitchen utensil? Well, this is part of the Zaporezhetz Sword Dance, and he would have been leaping over one of the (prop) swords, except someone forgot to ...

Lohri, celebrated every year on January 13, is one of the most vibrant winter festivals in North India. It is most popular in Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, and Himachal Pradesh, where people gather around a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The Georgian National Ballet Sukhishvili brings its blazing version of the country’s folk dances to New York. The Georgian National Ballet Sukhishvili brings its blazing version ...

AT a joint meeting of the Royal Anthropological Institute, the English Folk Dance Society, and the Folk Lore Society, held on Tuesday, November 23, in the Parry Theatre of the Royal College of Music, ...