This is a copy and paste from the old website for reference until I get the info in the new table.
These are some dances that most everyone knows and loves at Fort Collins Tuesday Night Folk Dancing. There are links to my preferred dance and music videos available on YouTube. Some tunes, such as Adje Jano, are prolific on YouTube, so the music choice was hard. But with some other tunes, I was lucky to get one hit, or I could not find anything at all.
I have created some danceable playlists on the Fort Collins Tuesday Night Folk Dancers YouTube Channel. The first set is of twenty-five dances for which I could find full-length dance videos of tolerable video and audio quality as well a music videos or stills that are of very good quality. You have your choice, depending on how well you can dance without a leader. In the case of dances with many music choices, I captured ones I like in a playlist titled Alternate Music. That playlist is not so good for dancing, unless you want to do the same dance over and over… Note: The titles of the videos are what the authors gave them, so sorry about some confusing titles. Also, some dances have a different name than the tune/song/music or English translations (Orijent = Brdjanka Kolo, Le Laridé = Tri Martolod, Idam ne Idam = Oi, Ela Mi Felidje, Sweet Girl = Siroon Aghchig.)
TNFD Fav’s #1: Dances playlist on YouTube
TNFD Fav’s #1: Music playlist on YouTube
TNFD Fav’s #1: Alternate Music playlist on YouTube
TNFD Fav’s #2: Dances playlist on YouTube
TNFD Fav’s #2: Music playlist on YouTube
TNFD’s Favorites, sorted alphabetically, incomplete:
* If the dance name appears in purple, there is a page for it on this new site.
Ajde Jano – Serbia
Ali Paşa – Turkey
Alunelul – Romania
- Dance: Tucson Folkdance
- Music: Traditional Folk Music
- Alternate Dance: Kid’s video
Adjon az Isten – Hungary
- Dance: Harvey J Gardner – Sun City Oro Valley
- Music: Ferenc Sebő
Bavno Oro – Macedonia
- Dance: Dunav
- Music: Boris Karlov
Biserka-Bojerka – Serbia
Çobankat – Albania
- Dance: Lee Otterholt in Richland, WA 2007
- Music: Brenna MacCrimmon
Čoček/Ketri Ketri – Romani/Hungary
- Dance: Steve Kotansky
- Music: Kalyi Jag
Čoček/Majko Majko – Romani
- Dance: Dunav
- Music: Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band – Majko, Majko/Ekremov Čoček
- Alternate Music: majko, majko / ekremov čoček (of äm brischtä)
Čoček/Rumelaj – Romani
- Dance: Dunav
- Music: Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band – Rumelaj
- Alternate Music: Grupo Mawaca – Rumelaj (Brazil)
Dospatsko Horo – Bulgaria
- Dance: Karen Faust
Erev Ba – Israel
- Dance: University International Folk Dancers
- Music: Karmon Israeli Dancers and Singers
- Alternate Dance: Emanuel Children’s Home
- Alternate Music: NAMA Orchestra
Harmonica (Harmonika) – Israel
Hashual (Hashu’al) – Israel
- Dance: Tarbut Sefarad
- Music: Ayse Yalniz
Idam ne Idam – Bulgaria
Imate Li Vino – Macedonia
- Dance: Dunav
- Music: MFG ‘Perun’ – TVRodina
Le Laridé – Brittany
Lemonia, Kontoula – Greece/Epirus
- Dance: Kolo Dragan
- Music: Stelios Bellos – Kontoula Lemonia
Lesnoto – Macedonia
- Dance: Ifdocdfio
- Music: NAMA Lesnoto Medley
Ma Navu – Israel
- Dance: Ira Weisburd
- Music: Ofra Fuchs
Orijent – Serbia
- Dance: Dunav
- Music: Miodrag Krnjevac – Brdjanka Kolo
Šetnja – Serbia
- Dance: Dunav
- Music: Traditional Folk Music
Siroon Aghchig (Sweet Girl) – Armenia
- Dance: ethnicdanceguru
- Music: Artie Barsamian and His Orchestra
Tino Mori – Macedonia
- Dance: Denver International Folk Dancers
- Music (4:41): Traditional Folk Music
- Alternate Music (2:42): TANEC
Tzadik Katamar (The Righteous Man) – Israel
Valle Pgonishte – Albania
- Dance: Schwitz-mit-Fritz
- Music (Albanian): Sami Kallmi – Kur kercen sorkadhja
- Music (Greek): Antónis Rémos (Αντώνης Ρέμος) – Díkopo Filí (Δίκοπο Φιλί)