Mandala was an American folk dance performing group based in the Boston, Massachusetts area, which presented programs of dance and music from around the world, starting in the mid-1960s.
[1] They performed in the Boston area, throughout the northeast, and occasionally at festivals around the world.
Their repertoire included a wide variety of ethnicities, primarily European (Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Croatian, Russian, Hungarian, Romanian, English, Scottish, Irish, etc.)
In the early years they used recorded music for their performances; later they added their own orchestra.
In 1984 they received a National Endowment for the Arts grant "To add new choreography from North Africa and promote a self-produced home season.