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Meanings of folk dance in English

Russian
народный танец
Portuguese
dança folclórica
Spanish
danza folclorica
Catalan
dansa popular
Wikidata

Dances that were danced to traditional folk festivals and in traditional societies and are still been danced.

народный танец
Catalan
dansa popular

A style of dancing that originated among ordinary people (not in the royal courts)

dansa popular
Synonyms
Examples for "traditional dance"
Examples for "traditional dance"
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There are now schools across the country teaching people this very traditional dance.
BBC
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They also take lessons in traditional dance, song and tea ceremony.
Reuters
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The ceremony is expected to feature Zulu traditional dance, maidens and royal guards.
The South African
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The Nubans would do a traditional dance for entertainment, and wrestling matches .
Acts of faith
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With this book, Irish traditional dance studies comes of age.
The Irish Times
1
To stave off boredom and engage the patients in light exercises, a health worker from Xinjiang started teaching them simple moves from an ethnic dance.
Reuters
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There were exhibitions of art, demonstrations of ethnic dances, there was food and music and, from the Sudanese, many speeches.
What is the what: the autobiography of valentino achak deng
Usage of folk dance in English
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Aynur finished with two more upbeat numbers including a reggae-ish folk dance.
The Irish Times
2
Part belly dancing, part classical Indian dance, part folk dance, part salsa.
Happiness key
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Closely embracing, they danced to the music of a slow folk dance.
The hangman's daughter
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They were dressed in many-coloured garments and danced a folk dance.
Marching Men
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The theme for the original dance at the Vancouver Games is folk dance.
Reuters
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The second movement is a modified minuet and trio featuring ländler, an Austrian folk dance.
Radio NZ
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Moiseyev established his own folk dance group in 1937, which has since toured the world.
Reuters
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India's first disabled folk dance group let nothing get in the way of their bhangra moves.
BBC
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A traditional Arab folk dance - with a twist - has taken social media by storm.
BBC
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Probably there is a folk dance in progress somewhere in America every hour of the day.
The new yorker
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The choreography successfully combines the footwork of traditional Irish folk dance with contemporary arm and body movement.
The Irish Times
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We played mostly for folk dance groups.
The whole world: a novel
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The dancing is a hybrid of Hindu temple dance, folk dance, and moves copied from Michael Jackson.
The new yorker
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Despite a notable brush with publicity in June 2007, the famous folk dance remains something of a mystery.
The Guardian
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Games, Flinch; 4 One folk dance.
Library Work with Children
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They went to the Hope of Israel Senior Citizens Center in the Bronx to learn an American folk dance.
The new yorker