Flying dancers perform at a national folkdance gathering.
| Traditional dancing in Sweden falls into three categories: gammaldans, folkdans, and bygdedans. Gammaldans is what we might call "old-time dancing", and consists of couple dances such as the waltz, hambo, schottis, mazurka, polka, and snoa. This kind of dancing is done pretty much the same way by Swedes all over. Participants in the tour will have a chance for gammaldans while attending at least one of the festivals. Folkdans is the choreographed performance dancing based on old steps and music. This is the dancing that one most often sees in costume. The tour will include at least one folkdans performance, and a possible participation at a folkdans practice session. Bygdedans is the old type of regional dances that go with the old music. The tour will join in with this kind of dancing, as well. |
Folk Dance!