Library of Congres – 1940

Women leading through History

Couple dances: but since when do women guide? Exploration of historical photographic collections in search of women leaders.
Le Grand Bal, un film de Laetitia Carton

It’s the story of a ball, a big ball

It was on July 5th, the preview of Lætitia Carton's movie Le Grand Bal, in the small Luminor, cosy movie theater in the Marais, historical neighborhood of Paris.
Matthew Henry – Unsplash

The Dansuality Concept

Is dance about sensuality and sex, or is there more ? What about the famous "flow" ?
Samuel Lagneau Reveillon Chatillon 16

Switch leading and coguiding

For several months now, the video below went viral amongst dancers. The speakers, two professional dancers are explaining a concept existing for decades in social dancing but unusual / partly…
Marsinne – Photo : Samuel Lagneau

Mazurtango and romantic folk

A short summary of the birth of the bal folk mazurka dance, it's evolutions in bal folk festivals and the arrival of tango
Unsplash – Kyson Dana

Engage your body into the dance

When we talk about dancing, we come up with various subjects like social relations, fun, musicality, pulse, variations, spins, good or bad dancers, connection, leading, following… And from time to…
Flickr – Vladimir Pustovit

Why I want to try every dance

If you want to start something else but you don’t know what, prepare yourself, I have A LOT of ideas. I started to dance 9 years ago and I couldn’t…
Unsplash – Jens Thekkeveettil

The amazing creativity of bal folk music

There is something truly amazing happening in bal folk dancing for several years now. People going to festivals across Europe, probably noticed the huge numbers of bal folk bands of…
Cadansa

Why Cadansa is such a Dutch festival

Next october, a new edition of the fantastic bal folk festival Cadansa will take place in Duiven, The Netherlands. A quite big and magical event only Dutch could have invented.…