Folk Dance in a sentence

Sometimes described as New England folk dance or Appalachian folk dance, contra dances can be found around the world and have much popularity in North America and the United Kingdom where weekly or monthly dances and annual dance weekends are common.

There are a number of modern dances, such as hip hop dance, that evolve spontaneously, but the term "folk dance" is generally not applied to them, and the terms "street dance" or "vernacular dance" are used instead.

The programme started with Rajasthani Folk Dance ‘Bhawai’ and Assam Folk Dance ‘Bihu’ and this was followed by the musical play ‘Maa Sheranwali’.

Country dance overlaps with contemporary folk dance and ballroom dance.

The dance closely resembles Krishna's dance with the gopis (milkmaids). citation citation In Bilaspur, the Raut Nach Mahotsav folk dance festival is organized annually since 1978.

International folk dance groups exist in cities and college campuses in many countries, in which dancers learn folk dances from many cultures for recreation.

The Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company has been lauded for preserving many of the various traditional folk dances found throughout the Philippines.

The term "folk dance" is reserved for dances which are to a significant degree bound by tradition and originated in the times when the distinction existed between the dances of "common folk" and the dances of the "high society".

This folk dance is also popular among the Harp tribe of the state but is called a different name, Wangala Dance.

A group of Greek youth performing a dance in traditional clothing at the Greek Folk Dance Festival.

During my years in Gurugram, I was part of a dance group and have performed Bhangra, Odissi, Haryanvi and Rajasthani folk dance forms.

The fact-based film depicts the story of a young man from a dance troupe that performs Lengger Lanang, a folk dance from central Java usually performed in pairs, with men often taking both male and female roles.

There was an overwhelming outpour of local talents that included a range of performers: classical, semi classical dance, folk dance, Bollywood, Tollywood, Mollywood, Urban Gypsies, students from Shivangini school of Kathak, storytellers of Ekta Popat.

For the original dance, the ISU would designate a rhythm or set of rhythms each year that all dancers must perform to, or a specific theme, such as folk dance.

In the 1970s, the Boston-area Lesbian and Gay Folk Dance became the first group to regularly contra dance without gender roles;sfn its dances were referred to as "gender-free" or "gender-neutral" dances.

I've borrowed from the modern dance, from the classical, and certainly from the American folk dance – tap-dancing, jitterbugging.

Morris dance is a form of English folk dance usually accompanied by music.

The institution provides training in national dance forms of Bhutan such as mask dances and also preserves the folk dance heritage.

It received second prize in skit, folk dance, debate, photography, on-the-spot painting, and collage.

The Bélé is a folk dance that originated in the French West Indies, as a synergy between traditional African styles and Caribbean influence, and has since been replicated in other islands.