Betty Casey traveled 25,000 miles while researching inter-national folk dancing as practiced in the United States. Her book covers the folk dance scene better than any I’ve seen. Illustrated with 157 photographs and line diagrams, it contains information about folk dancing history, pioneer leaders in the folk dance movement, guidelines for setting up a group, and descriptions of over 150 dances from 30 different countries and areas worldwide.
The section on folk dance camps and organizations is a helpful guide to finding local folk dance groups. Since most groups tend to stick together for quite a while, chances are that most of those mentioned are still in existence.
