Italian folk dance has been an integral part of Italian culture for centuries. Dance has been a continuous thread in Italian life from Dante through the...

A folk dance is a dance that reflects the life of the people of a certain country or region. Not all ethnic dances are folk dances. For example, ritual...

International folk dance includes Balkan dance, Middle Eastern dance, contra dance, Hungarian dance, polka, Chinese dance, and Japanese dance. Clubs featuring...

remained un-homogenized until quite recently. Moreover, Italian folk music reflects Italy's geographic position at the south of Europe and in the center...

Croatian dance traditionally refers to a category of folk-dances, the most common being the kolo. Croatian dance varies by region, and can be found in...

demonology. Italian folklore also includes the genre of the fairy tale (where the term itself was born), folk music, folk dance and folk heroes. Below...

Morris dancing is a form of English folk dance. It is based on rhythmic stepping and the execution of choreographed figures by a group of dancers in costume...

Tarantella (Italian pronunciation: [taranˈtɛlla]) is a group of various southern Italian folk dances originating in the regions of Calabria, Campania and...

Aegean sea. Italy – Italian folk dance costumes; South Tyrol – Tracht and Dirndl Sardinia – Every town has its design of the traditional folk costume (see...

family of related dances. For example, ballet, ballroom dance and folk dance can be single dance styles or families of related dances. See following for...

Pizzica (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpittsika]) is a popular Italian folk dance, originally from the Salento peninsula in Apulia and later spreading throughout...

dance, which includes metelitsa, hopak, kozachok, hutsulka, kolomyika, square dance, polka. Italian folk dance has been an integral part of Italian culture...

Bulgarian folk dances are intimately related to the music of Bulgaria. This distinctive feature of Balkan folk music is the asymmetrical meter, built up...

sources. Italian folk music is an important part of the country's musical heritage, and spans a diverse array of regional styles, instruments and dances. Instrumental...

Monferrina is a lively Italian folk dance in 6 8 time named after the place of its origin, Montferrat, in the Italian region of Piedmont. It has spread...

togetherness. Circle dances are choreographed to many different styles of music and rhythms. Modern circle dance mixes traditional folk dances, mainly from European...

Lavani Manipuri dance Mohiniyattam Odissi Sattriya Yakshagana Assyrian folk dance Hacha'a Khigga Bandari Choobazi Lurish dances Tapurian dance Irish Stepdance...

performers and venues as traditional folk music. The terms folk music, folk song, and folk dance are comparatively recent expressions. They are extensions of the...

forlana) is an Italian folk dance from the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. In Friulian, furlane means Friulian, in this case Friulian Dance. In Friuli...

("smooth" or "smooth dance" respectively in Italian) is a genre of music originating in the 19th century in the northern Italian region of Romagna under...

many important composers. Italy is known for its lively folk dances. Italy has electronic dance music scenes consisting of Italian-born genres such as Italo...

Balfolk (from French: Bal Folk, meaning a folk bal) is a dance event for folk dance and folk music in a number of European countries, mainly in France...

state dance or official folk dance) and one of the major centers for modern dance. There is a variety of social dance and performance or concert dance forms...

The tarantella is a traditional dance form, and accompanying music, with a distinctive rhythm, from the south of Italy. Tarantellas appear in many pieces...

Latin dance is a general label, and a term in partner dance competition jargon. It refers to types of ballroom dance and folk dance that mainly originated...

Tarantella (in italian: Tarantella Calabrese or "Sonu a ballu": playing for dancing) is a generic term to include different musical-dancing expressions spread...

tarantelle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tarantella is a type of Italian folk dance. Tarantella or Tarantelle (in French) may also refer to: Tarantella...

arrangement of the dancers, for example, by age. Greek dances are performed also in diaspora Greek communities among international folk dance groups. Antistrophe...

English folk dance clubs generally embrace all types of country dance, American English country dance groups tend to exclude modern contra dances and square...

Scottish Gaelic: port-cruinn) is a form of lively folk dance in compound metre, as well as the accompanying dance tune. It first gained popularity in 16th-century...