Folkdancing in NJ is very vibrant! Come join the groups in our area!
Folkdancing in America is an amalgam of the folk traditions of many countries around the world. Typically, dances are drawn from Eastern and Western Europe, Israel, and the Americas. Some people come for the great music!
Groups in the NJ area welcome beginners by teaching
easy dances at the beginning of the session, with teaching and more intermediate-level
dancing after that. Partners aren't needed.
Here are pages devoted to
NJ dancing:
Folkdancing:
Morristown Folk Dancers
Maplewood Folk Dancers
Monmouth Folk Dancers (Red Bank)
Palisades Folk Dancers
Princeton Folk Dancers
Metro NY-area listings Excellent Page!
Jim Gold - Northern NJ, CT and NY
Rutgers DEFUNCT LINK (anyone know the current address?)
Contra dancing:
Swingin'
Tern - Chatham (Click on Swingin' Tern)
Here are good resources with folk dance music and instructions:
Instructional videos of MFD dances from our own group
Dick Oakes' PhantomRanch
Andrew Carnie's list of pages with Folkdance notes
Dance instructions and videos galore! Click "Search>>"
button on Left panel
Bob Shapiro's list of dance notes DEFUNCT LINK
(anyone know the current address?)
Happy Dancing!
Andrew Carnie's old list of notes (temporarily, more complete)