Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A popular dance, or the music for it, which originates in the same way as a folk-song and is similarly transmitted by tradition. Folk-dances and folksongs are always historically intermingled.
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Examples
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Lauren Lancaster for The Wall Street Journal Serdar Ilhan and Mehmet Dede, the founders of the festival "At any given brass-band show you're bound to see traditional folk-dance circles alongside a younger crowd doing crazy interpretive dances," said Adam Pogoff , the producer of "Brasslands," a forthcoming documentary about Balkan brass music.
Accompanying Wanderers at Heart Tad Hendrickson 2011
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Determined scraps of folk-dance: out-takes, perhaps, from Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will.
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ARMY BAND CONCERT, Hungarian folk-dance theme; take a picnic and lawn chairs. 6 p.m.,
Prince George's County community calendar, July 8-15, 2010 2010
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My host's buoyant folk-dance teacher, Moustafa, has been heroically driving us around the West Bank showing us all kinds of things we wouldn't otherwise have had access to.
Kate Lowenstein: The West Bank: A Firsthand Look Kate Lowenstein 2010
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There was another contender, too: Battles, whose math-rock intricacies arrive with overlays of folk-dance melodic zigzags and hints of loop and echo machines going haywire.
Bonnaroo: No Need to Work This Crowd - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Fraternal and folk-dance groups, summer-camps, shuls, choruses, and other activities remained, but far smaller and more insular.
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The program will also introduce New York audiences to the music of Alexander Tansman (1897-1986), who in his Paris exile composed spirited mazurkas that blend folk-dance motifs from his native Poland with elements of French Impressionism and the blues.
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There was another contender, too: Battles, whose math-rock intricacies arrive with overlays of folk-dance melodic zigzags and hints of loop and echo machines going haywire.
Bonnaroo: No Need to Work This Crowd - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Her dances, which served as a source of inspiration for many folk-dance choreographers, are still danced today.
Leah Bergstein. 2009
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The troupe appeared throughout the country, performing for soldiers during the War of Independence, at conferences and at the folk-dance festivals on Kibbutz Daliyyah.
Leah Bergstein. 2009
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