YILAN, Taiwan (JTA) — It was a cool spring day in Yilan, a town on Taiwan’s northeast coast known for its picturesque rice fields and delicious spring onions. On a concrete clearing beneath a bridge ...

They are doing Rachel in Rio, Lamdi Oti in London, Dira 26 in Dimona and Biladaich in Boston. Israeli folk dancing is all the rage, and is possible almost any night of the week here in Los Angeles.

At New York’s 60th annual Israel Folk Dance Festival, held in April, a few dozen dancers at the opening session circled to their favorite Hebrew songs, those that recalled a time when Israel was a ...

Group folk dancing has long been considered a non-verbal, universal language that brings people together. The Midwest Folk Dance Association held its June Camp Folk Dance Weekend, June 12 – 15, at ...

Folk dancing is alive and well in Houston. The old world meets the new every Monday night when a group organized by the international folk dancers gets together to carry on the traditions of ethnic ...