European and Middle Eastern Folk Dance by Andrew Carnie is now available online as an open-access resource. This new folk dance book is organized into the following sections: What [...]
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People dance when they are happy but, as dance psychologist Peter Lovatt reveals, dancing results in a potent cocktail of feel-good brain chemicals, greater social bonding and enhanced creativity, all [...]
National Folk Organization of the United States of America
Our Mission: Provide resources, networking, programming, and education in order to encourage respect for cultural traditions through research, preservation, advancement, and dissemination of information. We support all folk dance and folk arts advocates in furthering these goals.
Our Vision: Promote advancement and sharing of cultural traditions in order to keep them alive as treasures for the world.
Our Values:
Synergy: NFO fosters connections and mutual awareness to strengthen community involvement in cultural traditions.
Respect: NFO respects cultural traditions and the people that create and practice them.
Diversity: NFO supports a wide range of viewpoints and practices pertaining to cultural traditions.
Education: NFO believes that obtaining knowledge relating to cultural traditions is essential to their practice and preservation.
Curiosity: NFO encourages everyone to be curious about cultural traditions, and to approach such traditions with the goal of appreciative inquiry.