Where to practice folk dance Midi-Pyrénées

Every first Thursday of the month, the MJC Pont des Demoiselles in Toulouse offers a traditional ball workshop. Traditional music teachers and their students can take the stage to test their repertoire, make people dance and put themselves in the situation of ball musicians. This is a real moment of conviviality and sharing, where amateur and experienced dancers can join the musicians on stage to enjoy the music.

The MJC of Castanet-Tolosan is committed to the transmission of the heritage repertoire in all its diversity in a convivial and festive way by proposing traditional dance classes. In a collective practice, you can take part in dance classes of the Oc country and of the neighbors (Basque Country, Berry...) as well as of traditional dances of Europe (Balkans, Ireland, Catalan countries...) for all levels. The group also participates in several festive events during the year.

Beginners or experienced dancers, it is the pleasure of dancing to discover and practice that brings together the members of the Club de danses d'Occitanie et d'ailleurs de Tournefeuille one Tuesday per month. The association proposes to learn the numerous dances that can be found in traditional balls all over France, but especially those more specific to the Occitanie region: rondeaux, bourrées, béarmais jumps... To practice, a ball open to all is organized once a quarter.

For more than forty years, the Occitan Center for Traditional Music and Dance has had as its goal the dissemination of traditional music and dance, the sensitization and transmission as well as the conservation and valorization of this vernacular heritage. It organizes concerts, offers courses as well as training courses of Occitan song, and also organizes workshops of initiation. To your instruments: accordion, oboe, Gascon bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy..