Dance Mapping - Arts Council England

12. Folk dance
Groups Organisations Practicioners
South East 137 72 123
South West 59 98 79
East 19 263 138
London 106 304 772
North West 81 140 90
East Midlands 145 326 267
West Midlands 160 336 200
Yorkshire 88 314 81
North East 56 189 82
851 2042 1832
Table 72: Total number of young people dancing per week. 95
The English Folk Dance and Song Society has represented the folk dance world for many
years. It was not the scope of this mapping research to map the field specifically but we did
seek to gather data through the workforce survey on those engaging with these genres. Much
of the data on amateur and voluntary participation will relate to this area of dance.
Recent developments have included a programme called StepBack, which seeks to create
greater dialogue between traditional folk dance forms and other dance forms currently
practiced in the UK:
95 Burns S (2008) Creating Greater Opportunity for Young People to Dance: An Evaluation of the Next Steps and
Dance Links Projects, Youth Dance England
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