HENRY GARFATH has been described as "the Swiss Army Knife of Traditional and Western Dance". Equally at home conducting an advanced workshop for experienced dancers or a party for a group who have never danced before, Henry is your ideal choice for your next dance event - particularly where versatility and adaptability is the key to success!

Henry's wide dance interests and experience are reflected by his membership of many professional organisations including the English Folk Dance and Song Society (he is a former Director and Chairman of the South East Area), Cymdeithas Ddawns Werin Cymru (the Welsh Folk Dance Society), the British Western Dance Association and the Square Dance Callers Club of Great Britain, having organised the Contra and Traditional Dance section of the British National Convention for many years. Henry has represented the Society for International Folk Dancing at Danceworld at Olympia and is one of only three members of Contralab in this country. Henry and his wife, Barbara, are the UK representatives of the Lloyd Shaw Foundation.

In between calling and cueing dances, Henry has written three books on dancing and numerous articles in specialist dance publications. His depth of knowledge and choreographic skills are equally respected on both sides of the Atlantic. As well as teaching dance at many colleges throughout London, Surrey and Kent and Hampshire, he has taught choreography at the New England Folk Festival in Boston, MA and Scottish & Historical dance at Sacramento and UOP Stockton, CA and USA National Square Dance Conventions.

calling since 1960, Former president Square Dance Callers Club of Great Britain

I am very active in the Square Dance scene in the UK: - I call several club nights each week as well as weekend events through my club, All Square At Zero, recruiting new dancers using a variation of the SSD program, and proving fun dance evenings, as well as developing existing dancers, through our Mainstream, Plus, A1 and A2 evenings and workshops. - I regularly call "Saturday night dances" (though they are often now in the afternoon) and weekend events locally, in the UK and, on occasion, in Europe and the USA, and call on an annual Square Dance cruise. - I am now the President of the SDCCGB (the Square Dance Callers Club of Great Britain) and continue to be the Chairman of the L&HC RCA (the London & Home Counties Regional Caller Assembly), which means I regularly present and lead discussions on various topics relating to calling, and teach/mentor several of the new UK callers. - I am a staff caller for Shindig productions and have provided the vocals on over a dozen of their releases. - I also call non-Square Dance parties including Barn Dances, Hoedowns and Mixers, often including Line Dances too (as desired by the organisers). - I am also known for including Rectangles, Triangles, Hexagons, Tandem Squares, and Progressive Squares (moving dancers from square to square) and happily include these for variety when asked to do so.