Balkan Folk Fitness – by Dancers Without Borders

A 1.5-hour Balkan folk dance workshop tailored for any age to participate in.

EVERYONE can dance! All you need is your dancing shoes and be ready to have some fun!

Balkan Folk Fitness embraces folk music and traditional dance culture from across the Balkans, and uses it to bring people together of ANY age and experience for a fun, social and active session that allows the group to move, sweat and enjoy the vibrant rhythms of the Balkans!

Featuring folk dances from Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Turkiye and more, this cross-cultural dance session is inclusive of many different cultures – not just in what is taught, but anyone is welcome to join! Dancers Without Borders creates a diverse and respectful social community that welcomes all ages, backgrounds and levels of experience to join and have some folk fitness fun! 

The group is taught dances step-by-step to a range of different folk music, and makes participants not even realise that fitness could be so fun!

Dancers Without Borders started as an elite Canberra-based ensemble showcasing folk song, dance and costumes from the Balkans. The group is the only organisation in the area to simultaneously embrace song and dance from across the Balkans, including but not limited to Macedonia, Serbia and Bulgaria. While the group’s mission started off by showcasing the beautiful traditions form the region with refined, energetic and inspiring performances, it turned into a Balkan folk fitness class that aimed to bring together people of all ages, background and level of dance to host collaborative workshops so that people could enjoy the vibrant rhythms of the Balkans!