And Now To Start. This is the blog for the International Folk Dance Video List. The video list page is the collection of my folk dance videos in a visual folk dance video list at: http://ifdvl.org/videodancelist.htm .
This web site represents my ongoing project of video recording folk dances and posting the dances to the web.The videos are listed on the site in two formats.: On the top of the alphabetical pages is a video player that is an alphabetical list of the international folk dances available on royisdancing my YouTube page.
Below the video player is an alphabetical list of the dances I have collected. Clicking on the dance name will bring up a video of the dance. If I have found a dance note source on the Internet for the dance then link to the dance description is also listed. Each dance is listed only once even though I may have multiple videos of a dance in the collection. Check the Video Players for the all of the videos.
The videos on the list are there for all folk dancers to use. If you need more than a simple link that you can steal from the video players address, then email me Roy.
Some of the videos can also be found on You Tube .
Saturday, February 21, 2009
I have migrated the majority of my videos to www.youtube.com/user/royisdancing . One of the videos Sarba batuta has become a hit in Romania. I have recently uploaded a number of videos to the site and added a few new events to the past event list.
Roy Butler, a Grass Valley native, who now lives in Loomis, started folk dancing in December 1973. A dance at Sierra Collage was canceled and the girl who he was going to take said she knew of a place to dance and took him to a folk dance class in Navada City. He has been dancing ever since.
Roy began teaching folk dance in the 1980s after attending Stockton Folk Dance Camp, the premier folk dance camp on the west coast. He is currently teaching at three classes Social Dances of the World, Introduction to International Dance and Lincol Village Dancers, a.k.a. The Roy Butler Dance School.
Roy specializes in easy beginning folk dances.
There are two types of beginning folk dances: those choreographed just for beginners and the social dances danced by the average person in the country of origin. Roy teaches the social dances.