Zonguldak Halay Folk Dances Association

Halay Folk Dance Association was established on 20th February 2006. In 2007, the association achieved a great success on the folk dance competition in Vrsac where located in Serbia and became top between the 13 countries. In 2008 , it participated to the Turkish-Balcanic Festival of the Bulgarian city Kırdjali,Oblast. Since then the association was attended various dance festivals around Europe in every year . In 2009 it joined Italy and Greece , in 2010 Romania , in 2011 Portugal , in 2012 Netherland and Ukraine , in 2013 Macedonia. In 2014 Oredea/Romania, 2015 Great Dance Night in Zonguldak with ten different dances. The city competition which is organized in Zonguldak, our association won the championship. We join Berlin International Dance Festival in 2015. The association was organized a big folk dance show night years of 2007, 2008, 2009 in consecutively .Still it has been continuing to perform a different regional folk dances including; Trabzon, Aydın, İzmir, Silifke, Burdur, Zonguldak, Artvin, Bitlis, Van, Kastamonu and Adıyaman. The constitution in our association we have 4 diverse groups consist of children, youths ,adults and hobby and each group is well trained.