Another year, another Tulip Festival has begun. According to the local newspaper, the Holland Sentinel, there are fewer high school kids doing Dutch dance this year. Nevertheless, the dancers still ...

HOLLAND, Mich. (WOOD) — In Holland every spring, Tulip Time Festival attendees are delighted by the city’s Dutch dance performances. The tradition was started by a Holland High School gym teacher in ...

HOLLAND — In the early 1930s, a Holland High School physical education teacher named Ethel Perry decided to teach some of her students Dutch folk dancing. Twelve students, then known as the Dutch ...

HOLLAND, MI -- Four months of 80-hour work weeks all culminate for 12 minutes of dancing to kick off Holland’s Tulip Time Festival. Before a single wooden clog hits the street Dutch Dance Director ...

HOLLAND, Mich. — Tulip Time has put out a call for dancers at next year’s festival! 2025 will mark the 90 th anniversary of the Dutch Dance program, a staple that connects attendees with the area’s ...

Why are there so few references to folk-dancing and music in local history? The record of folk-dance and dance tunes is sparse at best. Didn’t our ancestors bring any folk-dances from Germany and ...

CAPE MAY - The Van Wickle Dutch Dancers perform Klompen dancing, Dutch folk dancing performed in wooden shoes, during Captain Mey Day-A Celebration of our Dutch Heritage presented by the Washington ...

When I became involved with the newly-split and named Kutztown Pennsylvania German Festival in 1995, building stands alongside Richard Shaner, which thankfully regained its name back to the ...

The Kutztown Folk Festival is a bit like Thanksgiving. Like Thanksgiving, people don’t come to the annual summer celebration so much for what’s new, but rather for what’s old: Traditional music and ...

THE conference on folk dancing which formed part of the proceedings of the International (European) Folk Dance Festival, held in London on July 15-20 under the auspices of the English Folk Dance ...