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● What is Folk Dancing?
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● About Kathy Lin - International Folk Dance Instructor
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Folk dancing usually involves a group of happy individuals performing steps in certain formations, such as a circle or a straight line. Folk dancing is a great exercise and a fun recreational activity for people of all ages. Dancing is beneficial for stress-reduction, cardiovascular stimulation, and protects against dementia. Anyone can learn to folk dance as no formal dance experience is necessary and no partner is required. Come and learn a wide variety of international folk dances with music from many countries around the world, have fun and meet new people.
For more information about dance classes, please call Kathy Lin at 905-270-1834, or E-mail: kathylin888@yahoo.com
Kathy Lin was introduced to International Folk Dance (IFD) in her first year of university and fell in love with it immediately. Her passion for IFD grew through university while she learned, danced, and taught other students as an assistant. She put aside her love of dance temporarily after graduating from university to join the work force as a teacher, get married, and raise two wonderful sons who now have successful careers of their own.
Recently, Kathy realized that now is the time to pick up dancing again. She tried ballroom, jazz, tap, clogging and popular line dancing and enjoyed all the dance classes and performances with fellow members of the Older Adult Centre in Mississauga. Since April 2007, she has been teaching line dance to various seniors groups.
In 2007, a program at Yee Hong Centre for Geriatric Care attracted Kathy's attention, and she completed all three courses of Brain Beat Dance (BBD) with Rainbow Dill-Yuen, a senior instructor of Senior Dance Federal Association of Germany, who introduced BBD to Canada in 2003. The music of BBD woke Kathy up and brought back memories of International Folk Dance from over four decades ago. Inspired, Kathy started to collect information, find contacts in the community and purchase music CDs – and before she knew it, she was ready to teach her first folk dance class at the Yee Hong Centre in July 2008.
Since that time, Kathy has been teaching and promoting IFD in Mississauga and surrounding area. Her goal is to grow the popularity of International Folk Dance in the local community.
July 12, 2023. Dance for Health. This 7-minute video shows portions of 11 different dances performed by dancers in Kathy Lin's International Folk Dance classes. Video gives you a good idea of how seniors can learn to folk dance in a short time and have a great time doing it.
To view more performances by Kathy Lin's International Folk Dance Group, go to YouTube.com and search for "kathy lin folk dance".
 Ge Ge Dancers: Annie, Lillian, Anita & Amy |
 Ethnic Folk Dancers |
 Anita, Lillian, Amy, Kathy, Bing-Jie, Annie & Gen-Di |
 Ethnic Folk Dance |
| Chinese Ge Ge Princess Dance Part 1 - YouTube video | Chinese Ge Ge Princess Dance Part 2 - YouTube video | |
| Ethnic Folk Dance Part 1 - YouTube video | Ethnic Folk Dance Part 2 - YouTube video |
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 Folk Dances from Around the World Book & CD (The World Dance Series) |
 International Folk Dancing, USA |
 Canadian Folk Dances: Book & CD (The World Dance Series) |
• International Folk Dance from Wikipedia.
• International Folk Dance. YouTube video, 4:07 min.
• International Folk Dance 9. YouTube video, 0:57 min.
1. Asia
• Traditional Chinese Dance by Deaf People. YouTube video, 6:64 min.
• Aboriginal dance in Taiwan. Taiwanese folk dance. YouTube video, 1:37 min.
• Ethnic Folk Dance, Part 1. YouTube video, 0:33 min. Part 2. 0:38 min.
• Chinese Ge Ge Princess Folk Dance Part 1 - Kathy Lin Folk Dance. YouTube video, 0:26 min. Part 2. 0:33 min.
• Tinikling Dance. Traditional Filipino Bamboo Dance, YouTube, 1:19 min.
• Korean Fan Dance. YouTube video, 4:02 min.
• Traditional Japanese Dance. YouTube video, 3.55 min.
• Geisha Dance - Memoirs of a Geisha. YouTube video, 2:03 min.
• Maiko dance in a Kyoto hotel. YouTube video, 4:10 min.
• Robot Doing Japanese Folk Dance. YouTube video, 0:50 min.
• Dancing in Silence (Thailand). These beautiful Thai dancers are all hearing impaired. YouTube video, 6:32 min. Title changed to: Wetten dass...?! 1000 H nde Buddha's: Chinese Deaf Dance (German: You bet! 1000 Hands Buddha).
• Thai Folk Dance - ramthai. YouTube video, 7:34 min.
• Thousand-Hand Guan Yin. YouTube video, 5:55 min.
• Traditional Vietnamese Fan Dance performed at VSA UCI's Culture Night "1306". YouTube video, 2:24 min.
• HJ1:Authentic (real) Bharatanatyam Bharatnatyam Indian dance. YouTube video, 5:12 min.
• Punjabi Folk Dance. YouTube video, 5:15 min.
• LAWISWIS KAWAYAN: Philippine Folk Dance. YouTube video, 3:05 min.
• PANDERETAS : Philippine Folk Dance. YouTube video, 4:51 min.
• Java Traditional Dance. YouTube video, 4:29 min.
• Tibetan Folk Dance. (Poor quality). YouTube video, 8:06 min.
• Tibetan dance. YouTube video, 3:39 min.
• Uyghur dance: Dolan meshripi (CCTV dance competition). YouTube video, 5:12 min.
• Uyghur dance: Dap usuli (Sun worship in Uyghurs). YouTube video, 3:48 min.
• Xinjiang Uyghur Dance. (Excellent). YouTube video, 4 min.
2. Middle East
• Sadie BellyDance. YouTube video, 3:32 min.
• Lebanese Folk Dance - Dabke Ala Dalouna Cedars of Lebanon Folkloric Group. Lebanese folk dance. YouTube video, 3:36 min.
• Iranian Folk Dance. YouTube video, 6:13 min.
• Iraqi Folk Dance. YouTube video, 6:12 min.
• Turkish Folk Dance. YouTube video, 1:00 min.
• Turkish traditional dance 1. YouTube video, 0:34 min.
3. Africa
• Traditional African Dance. YouTube video, 1:34 min.
• South Africa - Zulu traditional Dance - Awesome!!!! YouTube video, 0.25 min.
• Swazi Dance. YouTube video, 0.41 min.
• Pretty Zulu Girls show their wedding dance. YouTube video, 3:18 min.
4. North America
• Pow Wow. North American Indian folk dance. YouTube video, 3:53 min.
• Hopi and Pueblo Indians doing Eagle Dance. YouTube video, 1:35 min.
5. Central America
• Mexican Folk Dancing. YouTube video, 0:42 min.
• Mexican Folk Dances. YouTube video, 2:15 min.
6. South America
• Dance of the Amazon Indians. YouTube video, 3:11 min.
• Peru Huayno Dance. YouTube video, 3:19 min.
7. Europe
• Bavaria Schuhplattler part 2. German folk dance. YouTube video, 2:48 min.
• Bulgarian Folk Dance. YouTube video, 5:56 min.
• Dance of the Zaporozhian/Ukrainian Cossacks. YouTube video, 5:57 min.
• Danish Folkdance. YouTube video, 0:45 min.
• Folk Fair - Scottish Dance. YouTube video, 0:54 min.
• German Dancing. YouTube video, 4:36 min.
• Hopak - Ukrainian Dance. YouTube video, 6:38 min.
• Hungarian traditional folk dance 1: Somogyi t ncok. YouTube video, 7:13 min.
• Irish Dance. YouTube video, 3:24 min.
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• Lord of the Dance - Cry of the Celts [Michael Flatley]. YouTube video, 4:56 min.
• Magnificent Mazowsze - Polish Folk Dance. YouTube video, 8:45 min.
• Riverdance "Thunderstorm". YouTube video, 2:07 min.
• Zorba (Syrtaki) - Jakub Zajaczkowski. YouTube video, 3:56 min.
Zorba: Lajkonik. Karol Grzebien, Sebastian Cyran and Jakub Zajaczkowski. "Zorba's Dance" by Mikis Theodorakis. Artist: Mikis Theodorakis.
• Zorba the Greek. YouTube video, 3:42 min.
• Zorba the Greek. YouTube video, 3:42 min.
• USSR 05.08.1991 - Russian folk dance - KALINKA. YouTube video, 4:10 min.
8. Australia, South Pacific
• Aboriginal Dance Theater, Kuranda, Australia. YouTube video, 0:53 min.
• Cook Islands Dance - Tiare Tipani. YouTube video, 3:57 min.