Dick Crum

This article refers to the dancer. For Dick Crum, the American football coach, see Dick Crum (American football)

Dick Crum at Pinewoods Camp in 2003

Richard D. "Dick" Crum (December 8, 1928, United States – December 12, 2005), was a prominent international folk dance researcher, teacher and choreographer. He conducted extensive field research in Eastern Europe in the 1950s (Shay, p, 121) and was choreographer for the Duquesne University Tamburitzans. He ran several international folk dance festivals, including those at St. Paul, Minnesota and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Sources

• "Dick Crum". Phantom Ranch. 
• Casey, Betty (1981). International Folk Dancing U. S. A.,. Doubleday. ISBN 9781574411188. “Dick Crum is nationally recognized as an authority on the Balkan folk arts. His field of expertise includes Bulgarian, Greek, and Romanian dances, as well as those of many ethnic groups in Yugoslavia. “  |access-date= requires |url= (help)
• Shay, Anthony (2006). Choreographing Identities: Folk Dance, Ethnicity and Festival in the United States and Canada. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co. pp. ix, 12, 19, 39, 97, 121, 162. ISBN 978-0786426003. “I am especially grateful to longtime folk dance teacher and choreographer Dick Crum, whose encyclopedias knowledge of traditional fold dace is legendary.”  |access-date= requires |url= (help)