2025年1月27日 · This article examines possible ways to look at and define folk dance, how various groups might conceive of their dances, and how the study of folk dance was born and developed. See also dance , for a general treatment of dance as an art form.

2025年1月27日 · If there is only one category of dance, it is unlikely to be labeled as folk dance or in any other particular way. European cultures have dances that are identity markers. Some examples include the Schuhplattler (“slap dance”) of Germany and Austria, the jota of Spain, the jig of Ireland, the tarantella of Italy, and the hopak (or gopak) of ...

2025年1月25日 · Dance - Folk, Ritual, Ceremony: When tribal societies in Europe gave way to more structured societies, the old dance forms gradually developed into what are now called folk or peasant dances. For a long time these retained much of their original significance.

2025年1月27日 · Square dancing has an honoured place as an American folk dance, although Congress has never declared a national dance. Other forms of dancing have also been identified as American folk dances, such as Appalachian clogging, Cajun dancing, country (including contra) dancing, and line dancing.

The sword dance, oldest of English folk dances, is an example. A group of young men carrying ribbon-decked rapiers performed this dance. They moved in a circle, weaving in and out around each other.

Folk dance - Global, Cultural, Expression: Folk dances and their association with national identity have made them vehicles for government propaganda. In Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, the government used charming folk dances to embody the mystique of an idyllic Germany.

The kolyacha is among the better-known examples of social folk dance. A fisherman’s dance indigenous to the Konkan coast of west-central India, the kolyacha is an enactment of the rowing of a boat. Women wave handkerchiefs to their male partners, who move with sliding steps.

Fandango, exuberant Spanish courtship dance and a genre of Spanish folk song. The dance, probably of Moorish origin, was popular in Europe in the 18th century and survives in the 20th century as a folk dance in Spain, Portugal, southern France, and Latin America.

Folk dances abound all across the country, and huge crowds of people can be found dancing at festivals and weddings. Dance and song features heavily in Indian cinema (so-called “Bollywood” films), too. But where does Indian dance draw its roots from? Here are six of the most important classical dance forms of India.

2025年1月14日 · The nationalist movements of 19th- and early 20th-century art music drew on folk tunes and their styles, as well as folk dances and themes from folklore and village life, to develop distinctive repertories.