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What is Folk Dancing?
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.
1. East Mississauga Community Health Centre - Kinsi 905-602-4082 ext. 454
2555 Dixie Rd. Unit 7, 2nd floor, Mississauga, ON L4Y 4C4 Canada
(S. of Dundas St.)
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Wednesdays: 10:00 ~ 11:30 a.m. Fall session starting on September 7, 2011.
2. Yee Hong Centre for Geriatric Care, Lower Level - Isabella 905-568-0333 ext. 4610
5510 Mavis Road, Mississauga, ON L5V 2X5 Canada
(S. of Matheson Blvd. W.)
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Thursdays: 1:00 ~ 2:15 p.m. Fall session starting on September 15, 2011.
1. Square One Older Adult Centre - 905-615-3207
Off-site Location: Meadowvale West Church
6945 Meadowvale Town Centre Circle, Streetsville, ON L5N 2W7 Canada
(Mississauga Transit Bus Terminal)
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Mondays: 10:30 ~ 11:30 a.m. Fall session starting on September 12, 2011.
2. Credit Valley Seniors Club - Bob 905-823-5579
Location: South Common Community Centre
2233 South Millway, Mississauga, ON L5L 3H7 Canada
(NW corner of Collegeway and Erin Mills Parkway)
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Mondays: 2:00 ~ 3:00 p.m. Fall session starting on September 12, 2011.
1. Chinese Golden Age Club - 905-507-2280
Location: Square One Older Adult Centre in Square One Shopping Centre, Lower Level
(Near The Bay and Bank of Montreal)
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Sundays: 3:00 ~ 4:30 p.m. All year round, on-going basis.
For more information, please call Kathy Lin at 905-270-1834, or E-mail: k.lin@rogers.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 Square One 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.
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| Kathy Lin Dancers Performance Cooksville United Church |
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| Kathy Lin's International Folk Dance |
 Ge Ge Dancers: Amy, Kathy, Bing-Jie |
 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 | Chinese Ge Ge Princess Dance Part 2 - YouTube | |
| Ethnic Folk Dance Part 1 - YouTube | Ethnic Folk Dance Part 2 - YouTube |
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| Flower City Brampton Chinese New Year Celebration February 3, 2011 |
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 Folk Dances from Around the World (The World Dance Series) |
 International Folk Dancing, USA |
• Andy Pollock's Folk Dance Page. Syllabus Menu includes step-by-step instructions on how to do a number of folk dances, e.g. Andy's Oberek (Poland), Staro Ratarsko (Serbia) by Dave Skidmore, and many other detailed folk dance steps.
• Ballroom and Sequence Dancing Compared by Diane and Peter.
• Crescent City International Dancers. What to Wear to folk dance.
• Dick Oakes' International Folk Dance Resources . Include: Standardized Abbreviations for International Folk Dance Descriptions. International Folk Dance Articles. Folk Dancing and Health by John Gratiot, M.D. Folk Dance for Health by Rick Allen. The Teaching of Folk Dancing: An Overview by Dick Oakes.
• Folk Dance Etiquette by Dick Oakes.
• History of Traditional Dance by Jenna E. Caputo, eHow.com. "Traditional dance, also called folk dance, dates back before history was officially documented."
• Hugo's Folk Dance Resources. List of about 100 dances. Click the link for each dance to go to dance instructions and/or a video clip of the dance.
• International folk dance from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
• International Folk Dance. Blog spot and clearing house for more information about International Folk Dance, includes links to videos.
• Learning to Folk Dance. Folk Dance Tips from International Folk Dance in Lawrence, Kansas.
• What Is Folk Dance? From wiseGEEK. "Folk dance is a collective term that is used to identify a wide range of dances that have to do with dances and traditional dancing performed by the common people within a given culture."
• What Is Folk Dancing? By David Fankhauser. "Folk dancing is a social, cultural and physical activity. The sheer enjoyment of dancing in a circle of friendly people is reward enough. But, in addition, like all dance forms, it is an excellent means of improving one's physical (and mental) fitness."
• What Is Sequence Dancing? By Diane and Peter: "Sequence dancing is one of the most popular forms of social dancing for all ages 9-90 (yes 90 or even more!)"
• International Folk Dance. YouTube video, 4:07 min.
• International Folk Dance 9. YouTube video, 0:57 min.
1. Asia
• Chinese Dancers in Beautiful Costumes - Flower Dance 2009. PowerPoint Presentation accompanied by Chinese music.
• 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 Hände 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
• 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
• Bulgarian Folk Dance. YouTube video, 5:56 min.
• Dancing Hungarians. YouTube video, 1:51 min.
• The Hungarian "CSÁRDÁS" is The Tango of the East. YouTube video, 1:00 min.
• Hopak - Ukrainian Dance. YouTube video, 6:38 min.
• Dance of the Zaporozhian/Ukrainian Cossacks. YouTube video, 5:57 min.
• Irish Dance. YouTube video, 3:24 min.
• Riverdance "Thunderstorm". YouTube video, 2:07 min.
• Lord of the Dance - Cry of the Celts [Michael Flatley]. YouTube video, 4:56 min.
• Danish Folkdance. YouTube video, 0:45 min.
• Folk Fair - Scottish Dance. YouTube video, 0:54 min.
• Magnificent Mazowsze - Polish Folk Dance. YouTube video, 8:45 min.
• Hungarian traditional folk dance 1: Somogyi táncok. YouTube video, 7:13 min.
• Zorba the Greek. YouTube video, 3:42 min.• German Dancing. YouTube video, 4:36 min.
• Bavaria Schuhplattler part 2. German folk dance. YouTube video, 2:48 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.
