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On-line Directories and Folk Organisations

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New Zealand General Dance Directories

DANZ - Dance Aotearoa NZ has events, feature articles, and a directory of NZ and other links. www.danz.org.nz

Te Puna Web Directory - many New Zealand dance-related links, run by the National Library of NZ, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa. webdirectory.natlib.govt.nz/dir/en/nz/arts-and-literature/performing-arts/dance/
Kiwifolk Folk and Acoustic Festivals page - www.kiwifolk.org.nz/format/festivals%20frames.html
Whare Flat - Music and Dance Festivals page - www.whareflat.co.nz/festivals.htm
Jambalaya Festival - jambalaya.co.nz
NZ Search Web directory has several pages of dance groups and clubs: www.nzsearch.co.nz/category.asp?id=757
Kadmus Arts NZ Page - festivals, festivals and more festivals: kadmusarts.com/countries/New%20Zealand.html

@URL lists many happenings, resources and organisations. Includes a link to large page of arts happenings. url.co.nz

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New Zealand Dance Organisations and Publications

New Zealand Morris Dancing Directory. www.geocities.com/bedlammorris/

Rokdim Yechefim - Website for a fun and friendly magazine about Israeli folk-dance in New Zealand. Their new website includes back-issues and dance class listings, at homepages.paradise.net.nz/balagan.

Middle Eastern Dance Association of NZ - events, classes, costumes, photo gallery and more. medanz.org.nz
Polish Association in Wellington - tel. +64(4)9778826 - e-mail: If unable to click on it, please type into your e-mail
Royal Scottish Country Dance Society- tuition and events are available almost everywhere - www.rscdsnzb.org.nz.

Auckland University Hispanic Club - listings of Latin dance classes and events. www.geocities.com/hispanic_club/

CeRoc - The Modern Jive. www.ceroc.com.au

Capoeira - homepages.paradise.net.nz/leof/classes.html - classes in Auckland, Wellington and Melbourne.

New Zealand Modern & Classical Sequence Dance Federation - www.sequencedancing.org.nz

Tony's NZ Rock and Roll Club Directory lists clubs all over New Zealand. geocities.com/rockinsnow/

New Zealand Line Dancing website lists dance instructors and gives some history. www.nzld.net.nz

New Zealand Folk Club Directory (kiwifolk.org.nz) lists folk music clubs and some Irish and Morris dance classes and groups.

Ballroom, Tango, etc. etc. www.wheretodance.co.nz (seems to be mainly Auckland studios and schools of dance)

Searches: Google or Yahoo - or search Yahoo.

 

Australia and the Pacific

Folk Dance Australia, Jared's page, and Israeli Dancing Australia list events and links to dancing sites in Australia and New Zealand. Folk Dance Canberra have a nice page too. URL's:
folkdanceaustralia.org.au/, dancingtheweb.com/ausfolkdance, and www.israelidances.com. www.geocities.com/Vienna/1160/moreact.html (Folk Dance Canberra).

Folk Australia list various resources available in New Zealand: www.folkaustralia.com/links.html
IsraeliDances.com www.israelidances.com has a database of over 5000 Israeli songs.
Intercommunity Folk Dance Association, Singapore: http://www.ifda-sg.com/

 

Resources

New Wave - dances for children, with instructions, music and videos: new-wave.folkdance.org.nz

Sit­Dancing - dance programme based on traditional folk dances from around the world, adapted and transformed to enable people of all ages and abilities to enjoy dancing while sitting down and/or standing.

Historical Dances - website with many useful pages, and CDs and books for sale - including The Lost Dances of Earthly Delights, The Christmas Carol Dance Book, and other publications.

There are heaps of sites relating to International Folkdance outside of NZ and we don't need to build another index...! Try starting with:

International - Search Engines and Directories

Google or Yahoo

The FolkloreInfoBank at folkloreinfobank.uw.hu

...and www.folkdancing.org say they have 200 web pages containing detailed listings of 3,000 folk dance groups and 1,000 special events throughout the U.S. and Canada.

We would like to learn of any other directories of participatory dancing in NZ, so he can include a link here - e.g. Cajun, Square Dance, Line Dance, ethnic groups - just send us an e­mail atIf link is not working, please type this address into your e-mail

By the way, have you looked at these folkloric newsgroups?

Newsgroups and E-mail Groups
World_Folklore at Yahoo Groups: groups.yahoo.com/group/World_Folklore/

rec.folk-dancing (seems to be mainly American + Contra, but their wisdom can apply to other dancers too!)

alt.folklore

alt.exotic-music

rec.music.celtic

alt.binaries.sounds.midi.ethnic

alt.music.jewish

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