Contra dancing originated in English court dances way back in the 1500s and it’s still danced today in Seattle, in some ways ...

Each week features a different style of folk dancing, like Irish and English cèilidh nights, New England contra dancing, Cape Breton step dancing, Middle Eastern dancing, and international folk ...

Photographs of traditional English folk events have been given trigger ... debate over whether blackface make-up used in Morris dancing and Mummers’ plays are historically racial in nature ...

Forty years ago a sharp-nosed, ascetic British antiquarian named Cecil Sharp noted that in certain remote parts of England, primitive villagers dressed themselves in strange costumes and skittered ...

There, she joined a group of young people aged between 10 and 18 with a passion for English traditional song ... Charlotte discovered a passion for folk dancing when she started going with ...

Carnival Morris has its roots in the rhythmic, choreographed English folk dances that date back to medieval times ... Photo: AFP “It’s the same steps and jumps as Morris dancing, but Carnival Morris ...

Under blue, cloudy skies, Pullman Morris and Sword, a Morris dance troupe from the Pullman community, performed English folk dances in period clothes, played drums, accordions and a fiddle and ...

THE conference on folk dancing which formed part of the proceedings of the International (European) Folk Dance Festival, held in London on July 15-20 under the auspices of the English Folk Dance ...

Trigger warnings have been issued for photographs of people in blackface costumes at traditional English folk events ... in activities like Morris dancing, banned the use of blackface make ...

Folk dancing should drop terms like “ladies and gentlemen” to avoid “offending minority genders”, a leading music organisation has said. The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS ...

With its communal green, reading rooms, historic pub, centuries-old farmhouses, cricket club and folk dancing troupe, it's a quintessential English village surrounded by the affluent commuting ...