The traditional folk dance, the quadrille, dates back to eighteenth century European settlers. |
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She was mainly taught folk dance, but modern dance was also incorporated to a small degree. |
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As early as the 1920s, the city had hosted performances by foreign ballet troupes and folk dance groups from Europe. |
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The birds twitter, the horn calls back, the mountain folk dance a droll measure, and all's right with the Alpine world. |
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More than half the states have designated a state dance or folk dance, and it is the same one, the square dance. |
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It also includes songs and live music performances, although the core of the show is still the Irish folk dance. |
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Though traditionally they are Gujarati folk dance forms, their appeal has transcended regional barriers. |
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As true folk dance, it is not restricted to professional or specialist dancers. |
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St. Kitts' well-known folk dance troupe, Masquerades, performs traditional dances ranging from the French-derived kwadril to African war dances. |
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At another, with his castanets, he brought alive the feel of a jota, the popular Spanish folk dance. |
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Nightly entertainment at hotels and clubs consists of a floor show of limbo dancing, folk dance, and live bands. |
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And then I will get drunk, and because Mara and her family are Latvian, I will dance some sort of folk dance and look like an idiot. |
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Perhaps the most commonly recognized folk dance, the tarantella, for example, is Neapolitan, with little diffusion elsewhere in the peninsula. |
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In a popular folk dance called the hopak, male dancers compete against each other, performing acrobatic leaps. |
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But he told this reporter that his route was from folk dance to modern dance. |
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The program of events also includes a parade, public address, folk dance, song, and poetry recitation. |
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Born in Elda, he grew up in Madrid and was sent to a dance academy where he studied flamenco, bolero, and folk dance. |
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The Jabro, again, is a popular folk dance of the Changpan tribe of Changthan area of Ladakh. |
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The most famous English folk dance is the Morris dance, still seen at local festivals. |
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More than 500 children from the borough's primary schools do-si-doed to their hearts' content at the annual folk dance festival last Wednesday. |
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The audience sat sedately to start with, expecting a traditional folk dance. |
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While still deadly, Silat is also presented with music as a traditional folk dance. |
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I was joined on my hunkers by a number of other diners, but we resisted the temptation to start a Russian folk dance as we strained to view what was on offer. |
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They come in expecting to see Mexican folk dance or flamenco. |
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In Australia, Calisthenics is a competitive women's sport combining gymnastics, dance, ballet, folk dance, singing, marching, and free exercise. |
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These members come from artistic backgrounds and work in folk dance and the circus but go to school at the same time. |
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Things become even more folksy in the evening with contributions by string musicians Alder from Urnäsch and a folk dance duo from Appenzell. |
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Turkey has a very ancient folk dance tradition which varies from region to region, each dance being colourful, rhythmic, elegant and stylish. |
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One should remember, however, that in the 18th century the Mazurka was not a folk dance. |
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The finale is in Bartók's characteristic style of an Eastern European folk dance. |
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The folk dance in India found it's own roots, moorings and maturity. |
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She taught twice a week, mainly Afro-Caribbean and indigenous folk dance. |
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With painfully fixed smiles, the children kept the curious foreigners entertained for a while, and then at the end invited us to dance a traditional folk dance with them. |
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Many forms of dance including Aboriginal dance as well as experimental and folk dance have no ongoing data collected, and have received limited or no one-time studies as of yet. |
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For instance, in France, the ballet of Jean Baptiste Lully and the folk dance of the Bretonnes and Basque areas have also been regarded as cultural heritage. |
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Yorkshire has a heritage of folk music and folk dance including the Long Sword dance. |
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The commoners folk dance is more concerned with social function and entertainment value than rituals. |
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Yorkshire has a rich heritage of folk music and folk dance including the Long Sword dance. |
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The Javanese Ronggeng and Sundanese Jaipongan is the fine example of this common folk dance traditions. |
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The terms folk music, folk song, and folk dance are comparatively recent expressions. |
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Irish showbands presented a mixture of pop music and folk dance tunes, though these died out during the seventies. |
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The polka, the square dance, and the Irish step dance are very well known Western forms of folk dance. |
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The candombe is a folk dance performed at Carnival, especially Uruguayan Carnival, mainly by Uruguayans of African ancestry. |
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The mare and her foals, as though executing a spirited folk dance, pranced with loud whickerings among the guests. |
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The obvious difference between courtly dance and common folk dance traditions is the most evident in Javanese dance. |
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The theatre company Les Voyageurs and the folk dance group Les souliers dansants allow young people to learn about Franco-Canadian culture in an enjoyable way. |
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Halling, vigorous Norwegian folk dance for couples. |
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Similarly to melodies, folk dance forms, such as the landler, matenik or czardas, migrated too. |
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There are several active groups and organizations which coordinate folk dance classes, workshops, events, festivals, parties etc. Here are some useful links to some of their websites. |
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Russell also had the opportunity to perform in workshops with fiddlers from Ireland, Vancouver and Quebec, while Kearly facilitated a folk dance workshop. |
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As in Cornwall there are very strong traditions of folk dance and mumming, the best known being the Hobby horse celebrations at Minehead in Somerset. |
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Country dance overlaps with contemporary folk dance and ballroom dance. |
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International folk dance groups exist in cities and college campuses in many countries, in which dancers learn folk dances from many cultures for recreation. |
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In the morning session, Indian community teams will showcase Melam, folk dance from Maharashtra, Tamil folk dance and songs in Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam and Tamil. |
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Morris dance is a form of English folk dance usually accompanied by music. |
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