Seymour International
Folk Dance Links
International Folk Dance clubs are places where our "village people" teach themselves dances. These are mostly village dances, and it is up to you to figure out how to include yourself. We can use spontaneous spot teaches and reduced speed tracks, but most of your dance will be self-acquired. This is not a dance class. We purposefully select dances that are ones where someone who doesn't know the dance isn't likely to mess up other people in the circle or line as you stumble through learning them. There is also the more graceful option of learning behind the line before joining. We point you to links and music, the means for learning these at home should you feel you want to learn these well enough to be a leader or teacher for the dances we present to you.
Learning new dances by video has advantage and disadvantages. The advantage is you can adjust the speed of these with the Youtube software. The settings for speed are under the gear icon in lower left of screen. Click on the settings gear icon, select your desired speed in the third menu. You can do these in between home chores and errands, and even using your phone in a waiting room or during your bus ride.
The disadvantages are you can't ask questions and sometimes the orientation of the video is not from behind the line, whereas in-person learning, you can see and hear everything more clearly.
We do this for fun, and not for scholarship. There will be style differences for all leaders! There is always room for individual expression in recreational dance. This is also not a performance. You are responsible for your own learning and keeping up with others. Below are links to the youtube playlists. These are not publicly searchable, but are "unlisted" access links. Let us know if you are having any problems using these.
Youtube playlist SeymIFD Easy & Slow
Youtube playlist SeyIFD 2024 Summer
Youtube playlist SeymIFD 2024 Autumn
Youtube playlist SeymIFD 2025 Spring
Youtube Playlist SeymIFD Prospective
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Seymour International Folk Dance spreadsheets for reference
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% Recently Taught Dances from last two months %
(newest ones are added to top of list, if tere are two dates, it may be a dance covered by Mon & Tues different times)
traditional fr Pirin region of Bulgaria
Here is a cover of "Zaljubih Mamo Tri Momi"
video is of choreographer showing the dance
USA-Canada-Turk-Albania "International"
The uncut music by Ayde Mori, with long intro, is here
Erik Bendix is showing the dance Ventzi Sotirov taught him
Here is a video of another singer covering the version Tatiana Srbinska sings on the rercording we use.
Here is the recording we use with Tatiana Srbinska singing
Choreographed with trad steps by Bora Gajichka 1976
Music from N. Macedonia
tb Yves Moreau
traditional from Bulgaria
You can dance to the tune we use at 11:34 of this video of Tom Pixton
playing 6 dances that were taught by Yves Moreau.
traditional from west Thesaly, Greece
tb Joe Graziosi
traditional from NW Turkey
Koroglu refers to the folk hero and to the mountain range
the Ercument Kilic 1985 version, but to new music
Ацано млада невесто ('Atsano')
taught by Dick Crum and many others
traditional from N.Macedonia
tb Tineke van Geel of Netherlands
who learned it from Artushat Karapetian
This dance has another version in the first part of the Armenian-American
performance suite, Daronee
Steve Kotansky took trad Albanian steps and applied these to another piece of music
these were reused by Lee Otterholt teaching another dance to this music.
This music is also used for another Kotansky dance. It's complicated, there is, apparently, a conflict,
The dance itself, is not from Albania. However, by way of these two great dance teachers, we still like this dance.
Armenian American
fr N.Macedonia
fr Serbia
tb Dick Crum in 1960s
Linda Eh
cb Ira Weisburd:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NuAQ1lCTzM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-xnleR7HS4
Music is by Grupo Mania, recorded in 1996, well sung by Elvis Crespo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dElUL4hvbJE
Trikot (Hanter Dro & An Dro)
fr Brittany, France
Croatia dn Serbia
fr Israel
cb Avner Naim, in 1994
fr Bulgaria
as tb Yves Moreau
fr Bulgaria
Strumichka Petorka (Jan 13)
tb Bora Gajicki in 1976
you can find some music here
Nevesto Mori (Jan 13)
astb by Sema Saatcioglu Deeds
Mandrele (Jan 13, legacy)
tb Sunni Bloland
fr Romania
Yoav Ashreil 1960
Israel, we use new music
Siriysko Horo (Jan 13, requested)
Syrian folk dance to "Hely Mely" (Jan 13)
TB Yuri Yordanov, locally by Steve Salemson
Joc Bătrânesc de la Niculiţel (Jan 13)
Romania as tb Lia and Theodor Vasilescu
We use newer music for this dance.
Alunelul (Jan 6th, requested)
children's dance fr Romania
We use E.Perlini version at link here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW9LM_zGqKM
Lesnoto (Jan 6th, requested)
traditional pan Balkan fr Macedonia
Many songs possible, we use "Oj ti Pile" at link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLG78DagXA4
Paraliakos (Jan 7)
Crete, Greece
tb Lee Otterholt
Grckoto (Jan 6, 7)
and Grchkoto
Pan Balkan, Bulgarian, "Greek dance"
Sfarlis (Jan 7)
Greeks in Trakia, Bulgaria
Dancu (Jan 6, 7)
new traditional Vlach in Serbia
tb Steve Kotansky
Kouvenda stin Kouvenda (jan 6, 7)
Greece and Albania derived, tb Mea Nordenfelt, NL
Su Passu Torrau (Jan 7th)
traditional fr Sardinia
tb Yves Moreau
Vashki Sat, (Sally, Dec 16,17)
Bianca de Jong (NL)
Vlach choreography fr Serbia
Sarit din Bogdan Voda (Sally, Jun 03, Dec 17)
tb Yves Moreau
Bogdan Voda, Romania
Zensko Kapansko (Sally, Sep 19, Jan 7)
tb Yves Moreau
Bulgaria-Canada