Spend a week sharing the magic of dance

growing the bonds between family & friends

Respecting the past

and embracing our future

Folk Dance Camp

July 13-19, 2025

KDI celebrated another amazing year, with one of the best turnouts in its 72-year history! We’re thankful to everyone who helped make this year a success and are excited for the wonderful memories that lie ahead.

 

Come join us for another fun filled week of folk dancing, fun & family.

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KDI Family Folk Dance Camp

Since its founding in 1953, the Kentucky Dance Institute has helped to spread the joy of folk dancing to all ages. We bring together instructors and dancers from all across the globe to share the magic that dancing together can bring. KDI values inclusion, building life-long friendships and celebrating life through dance.

Years

Dancers

Dances

Scholarships

Who we are

FOLK DANCING

We love dancing! We invite instructors each year that provide a variety of styles and forms. Over the years we have taught dances from countless countries: Israeli, Scottish, Turkish, Scandinavian, Irish, Swing, Balkan, Somalian, Spanish, English Country, Clogging, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Portuguese, American and many more. Each year we provide a mix of styles and forms of dance so there is plenty for everyone.

FAMILY

Your entire family is welcome at KDI! We encourage dancing at all ages and have attendees each year from every decade of life. We love building strong friendships that last a lifetime and we have multiple families that bring several generations to camp each year. Come join us and be a part of our large crazy extended family.

FUN 

Looking for a fun week? Our focus is to ensure that the dancers, staff and instructors all have a great time at camp. So much so that KDI can be addicting! It’s very common for our attendees to come back year after year with many attending for decades. KDI is the highlight of our year each year and we look forward to sharing our fun with you.

Happy campers.

The people and the high-quality teachers brings me back each year.  Everyone is so welcoming here. Even the young kids are welcoming to the other kids.

Joanne Classick

I have been attending every year for 20 years. First with my boyfriend, who became my husband, and now our three sons. They came as infants and toddlers and KDI welcomes small children with open arms…literally. I have innumerable pictures of various friends and acquaintances holding my babies while I join a dance, not to mention the pictures of those boys in a square while on my hip. Decades of fun, warm memories!!! We love our yearly sojourn to Murray, Kentucky.

Chrissy Shah

KDI is the one thing I look forward to every summer! After my first year in 2003, I was hooked! Never have I had so much fun and felt so accepted by such a large, diverse group of people. KDI really is the happiest place on earth!

Kelsey Stuber

Have a question?

Father and daughter folk dancing

Dawn Schwartz

(502) 500-1048

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dawn@knobtiger.com

Camp held at Murray State University, 102 Curris Center, Murray, KY 42071

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