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Hilt and Point Sword Dancing is a traditional dance form found throughout Europe. While many sword dances have common themes, it is an incredibly diverse genre of dancing. Different countries use unique swords, music, costumes, figures, stories, footwork, and traditions in their sword dancing. On sword-dance.com you will find a range of dances with photos, history, analysis and other resources. It takes its foundations from a year-long Watson Fellowship by Jeremy Carter-Gordon
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In the News: A Cowboy in the Sword Dance

April 12, 2012
by starofswords
Blog, Germany

My first front page article! Moving up in the world! This has never occurred before in the long history of Traunstein sword dance: The appearance…

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Lastovo Poklad: Costumes, Sword Dancing, and Explosions!

March 29, 2012
by starofswords
Blog, Croatia

On the boat from Split to Lastovo I encountered the least D.A.R.E-friendly emergency instructions card that I have ever come across. In other news, the boat…

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Guns, Garrotes, Swords, and Firewater: Sword Dancing at the Fiesta de San Sebastian

February 1, 2012
by starofswords
Blog, Spain

I awoke in a panic to hear music playing in the street outside, “Damn, the sword dancing must have started already!” I grabbed my gear…

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Sword Dancing Around the Bonfire: First Day in Villanueva De Los Cruces

Sword Dancing Around the Bonfire: First Day in Villanueva De Los Cruces

January 30, 2012
by starofswords
Blog, Spain

The story really continues in the small town of Villanueva de los Cruces on the 2oth of January, during the festival of San Sebastian where…

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Rapper Ezpata-Dantza: Teaching Rapper Sword Dance in Basque Country

November 10, 2011
by starofswords
Basque Country, Blog

This was a day that I had been waiting for for a while: the rapper dance workshop! My rapper swords that I my mother had…

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