In the Halloween season, American culture briefly participates in an ancient tradition of making the world of the dead visible to the living: Children dress as skeletons, teens go to horror movies and ...

When does movement spill over from something we recognize as dance as an artistic and social form to something else? Something potentially otherworldly, whether ecstatic or demonic? This workshop ...

Russia is such a vast country that it continues to produce autonomous republics few people outside the region have ever heard of — all with their own folk-dance ensembles. One such place is Adyghea, ...

The 13th annual North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance kicks off in Vancouver today with performances by B.C.'s own Puentes Brothers and Finland's Gjalarhorm. The travelling festival, billed as ...

They’re back! Men dressed in white, leaping and dancing with bells tied around their legs, handkerchiefs and ribbons fluttering. No it’s not a revival of “La Cage aux Folles” — although that might be ...

In the medieval church, folk piety was rich in the theatrical and festive observation of Christ’s nativity. We see and hear a faint echo of it down to our own times in Christmas carols, pageants, ...

Medieval folk structures and melodies slathered with signifiers of psychedelia. Save this story Save this story I've been had. The moment the first strains of the first song off Lick of the Tip issued ...