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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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In the News: Sword Dance: A Yank Swings His Sword

In the News: Sword Dance: A Yank Swings His Sword

April 9, 2012
by starofswords
Blog, Germany

U.S. Researcher as a Guest Dancer Sword Dance: A Yank Swings his Sword The sword dance is a unique spectacle in Traunstein, whose origins date…

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In The News: US Researcher Doing the Sword Dance in Traunstein

April 8, 2012
by starofswords
Blog, Germany

For the first time in the history of the dance we have a guest dancer in our midst. Jeremy Carter-Gordon studied Ethnochoreology at Bard Collage, Annandale-on-Hudson,…

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Teaching Morris, Late-night Singing, and Raising a Giant Tree. Plus Two More Sword Dances!

November 9, 2011
by starofswords
Basque Country, Blog

I managed to navigate talking on the phone in Spanish sufficiently to call a taxi to take me to the bus station and after some…

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