The Reykjavík Folk-Dance Association was founded on the Iclandic national holiday, June 17, 1951. The main puropse of the Association is to study and spread knowledge of national folk-dances and realeted activity  as a part of the Iclandic  heritage. The goals of the Association are:
a) To stimulate people´s interest in folk-dancing, both national and international to promode the teaching of folk dancing and to maintain an information service for folk-dancers.
b) To collect and write down decriptions of folk-dances, to collect folk-songlyrics and to record their music.
c) To promote national costumes in their orginal form.