DO BALKAN DANCE long enough, and you not only have the potential to learn hundreds of dances; you also learn to count in many languages — Croatian, Serbian, Romanian and Macedonian, among others.

In her book, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy, author and cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich contrasts the “epidemic of melancholia” that pervades much of the modern world with ...

My dancing days were over when Medusa’s closed so I’m more than impressed to see 84-year-old Atanas Kolarovski hardly break a sweat at the annual Spring Festival at the University of Chicago’s ...

FEELGOOD FOLK Clarinet master Ismail Lumanovski (left) and Marco Peris, Inspector Gadje manager and drummer, are featured in ‘Balkancisco.’ (Photo courtesy of Balkcancisco) Once a week, in San ...

PORT TOWNSEND — A Balkan dance party is planned at the Quimper Grange at 7 p.m. Friday. Admission to the dance at the grange at 1219 Corona Ave. will be $5 to $20 on a sliding scale. SEQUIM — Sequim ...

Folk dance groups from 11 Balkan countries gathered in the Aegean coastal city of Izmir, Turkey for the 13th annual Balkan Folk Dance Festival. The dance groups performed in different districts of ...

Musicians from Washington and Oregon will join Humboldt County bands for a night of Balkan dance music on Friday starting at 7:30 p.m. at Synapsis, 1675 Union St. in Eureka. The evening is the annual ...

STONE RIDGE, N.Y. — Stone Ridge Orchard’s Balkan Dance Party is set for May 3 and 4 at 3012 state Route 213. The event starts at 2 p.m. each day and runs to the wee hours. The lineup is set to include ...