FolkLib Index - Wisconsin Dance Groups

          This page lists links for Dance groups and individual dance performers based in Wisconsin. It also lists all groups that performed at the 23rd annual International Festival held in the Madison Civic Center in 2004. Groups without links are assumed to be from the Madison area.
          Wisconsin Dance Organizations

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• .Atimevu Drum and Dance [Active: 19??-] [Madison]
  B  
• .Baskaran, Kripa - Page ( Author ?) [Madison] - (see also: Kripa Baskaran and the Natyarpana Dance School)
• .Beglan, Sean (irish dancer) - Page ( Author ?) [Wauwatosa]
  C  
• .Caledonian Scottish Dancers [Milwaukee]
• .Cashel Dennehy Dancers - Page ( Author ?) ( John Monahan [Archive]) [Milwaukee]
• .Costa Brava [Active: 19??-] [Madison]
  D  
• .Defoe, Thirza - Page ( Oneida Nation)
  G  
• .Glencastle Irish Dancers - Page ( Patrick Crothers) [Greenfield]
  H  
• .Heather Highland Dancers - Page ( Susan Jeffrey) [Madison]
  I  
• .Iberian Spanish Dancers - Page ( Max Kade Institute)
  K  
• .Kinsella Irish Dance Academy - Page ( Author ?) [Milwaukee]
• .Kojo Drill Team [Active: 19??-] [Madison]
  M  
• .Madison Chinese Cultural Association [Active: 19??-] [Madison]
• .Madison Scottish Country Dancers - Page ( Nancy McClements) [Active: 19??-] [Madison]
• .Mesoghios Dance Troupe [Active: 19??-] [Madison]
• .Milwaukee Ballet - Page ( Author ?) ( Wisconsin Arts Board)
  N  
• .K. Nadira de Abrew [Active: 19??-] [Madison]
• .Narodno! - Page ( Tom Dettinger) ( Portal Wisconsin)
• .Natyarpana Dance Company, Kripa Baskaran and the - Page ( Author ?) [aka Natyarpana School of Dance, Natyarpana Dance School] [Madison]
  P  
• .Pommersche Tanzdeel Freistadt (Tanzdeel = dance group) - Page ( Craig Tews / alternate) ( Wisconsin Arts Board), Wis. Festivals ( OTMCF) [Active: 1976-] [Mequon]
            (see also: Pommersche Spaldeel Freistadt -- Spaldeel = playing group)
  S  
• .Sadira Middle Eastern Dance - Page ( Author ?) [aka Sadira and the Riad Dance Company] [Madison]
• .Silver Foxettes and the Guys - Page ( FoxArts.Net) [Appleton]
  V  
• .Viata Romanesca - Page ( Pat & Ken Dretzka) [Active: 1971-] [Milwaukee]
  Z  
• .Zaibas Lithuanian Dancers - Page ( Author ?) [Madison]

Wisconsin Dance Organizations - top / bottom of page |

• . PBS "Polka: Wisconsin's State Dance", an article by Richard March
• . Call For Peace Drum & Dance Company (Madison)
• . Clogging Association Of Wisconsin - Clogging Clubs (in Wisconsin)
            Note: Unlike Polka Bands and Ceili Bands which specifically perform with their respective types of dancing, and have recorded their music, Clogging Bands do not exist. Therefore, Wisconsin Clogging recordings do not exist, and thus there is nothing I can list for this type of music in my forthcoming book, FolkLib Index: Wisconsin Discography.
• . Eau Claire International Folk Dancers
• . Folk Dance Association - Wisconsin Folk Dance
• . The Heather Highland Dancers (Madison) (Susan Jeffrey)
• . Madison English Country Dance Society
• . Madison Wisconsin Scottish Country Dancers
• . Madison Folkdance Unlimited
• . Madison Scandinavian Dance Schedule
• . Square Dance and Round Dance in Wisconsin
• . Sugar on the Floor Barn Dance Society (Cy Rosenthal)
• . Sumadija Serbian Folk Dance Ensemble of Milwaukee
• . Syrena Polish Folk Dance Ensemble (Milwaukee)

• . madison.com Answer Book - Groups and clubs: Dance [Archive]
            Aug. 2004: The Answer Book recently converted everything to PDF format. Unfortunately, they made the files so big, it takes at least 3 to 10 minutes to load one file, and that is at DSL speeds. If you just have dialup, don't even bother with this site. It was designed to be virtually inaccessible to you. Another problem due to the huge files, is that loading one will crash your Windows 98 PC when it runs out of memory (aka "System Resources, 0% free"). The "Groups and clubs: Dance" section at the old site (the link above) had 22 entries. The PDF version "Dance Troupes" section on Page 14 only has 7 entries, and you must load pages 9-40 to see Page 14.

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