The synchronism of the dancers is impressive and is the basis of a festive mega-show. By booking a small group, you can enjoy group performances of Persian, Indian, and other types of belly dance, jazz dance, burlesque, samba, street dance, disco, modern dance, and folk styles. Give the...
A broad range of dance styles exist, from folk dancing and classical ballet to hip hop and contemporary dance. Some dances are communal, such as spring’s maypole dance or the Jewish hora; others are for performance and provide entertainment to an audience. In addition to building muscle ...
Most of the calories us common folk consume while traveling com in the form of informal food. Taking that into consideration, on average deliciousness per calorie eaten, Mexico is the best country to visit. Tropical batidos, fresh ceviche, spicy candies, mouth-watering mole, tacos, tlayudas...
Folk dance, generally, a type of dance that is a vernacular, usually recreational, expression of a historical or contemporary culture. The term ‘folk dance’ was accepted until the mid-20th century. Then this and other categories of dance were questione
Reel, genre of social folk dance, Celtic in origin. It is a variety of country dance in which the dancers perform traveling figures alternating with “setting” steps danced in one place. Reels may be for sets of two or more couples. The music is in quic
was eulogized for his encyclopaedic knowledge ofarchitectureand art. Nonetheless, the folk arts were closely linked with the elite arts. Tribal group dances, for example, shared common elements with classical art, dance, and music. Among the artistic traditions of the Indian subcontinent, sculpture...
it can be traced to at least the early Islamic period, in the 7th centuryce. Although traditionally overshadowed byhorse racingin that region—the peninsula is home to theArabian horse—the racing of camels was long a folk sport practiced by the local population at social gatherings and festiva...
Scales have proven to be important in the analysis of folk music and the music of nonliterate cultures, but scholars have been obliged to deduce the scales through a study of the actual music, since the creators of the music were not cognizant of scales as theoretical concepts. By contrast,...
and rarely does any poem exceed 100 lines—most are little longer than Western sonnets; many are only quatrains. In Japan this tendency to limit length was carried even further. Theballadsurvives in folk poetry, as it did in China, but the “long poem” of very moderate length disappeared ...
Author ofFolk Music; America's Ethnic Music. Theodore C. Grame, Eric Halfpenny Editor,The Galpin Society Journal, 1963–70. Eric Halfpenny•All Fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge,...