Folk dances are strongly linked to local identity and culture. The know-how of these dances survives at the local level through small groups of people who gather to learn, practice and preserve these traditional dances. Their preservation for the next generations is of major importance. The aim of this thesis is to use already digitised folk dances and create a learning application using immersive virtual reality. Focus will be given on extracting existing steps of the dances. A classification of the steps will be done allowing users to understand and potentially learn how to dance. The implementation will be done in a game engine (i.e. Unity) and HTC Vive head-mounted display will be used for visualisation and interaction. An evaluation will be done with users to access the effectiveness of the VR application as well as the step analysis.