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None, Canadian stepdance unofficially; Red River Jig for Métis; jingle dance, Fancy dance and First Nations tribal dance styles dominate in areas populated by First Nations. Cape Verde: Coladeira, Batuque: Chile: Cueca; [4] Rapa Nui: Sau-sau and others China: Yangge, Lion dance, Dragon dance: Colombia: Vallenato and Cumbia [4] Cook Islands ...
Dance in England (7 C, 10 P) ... National Dance Awards (1 C, 11 P) O. Dance organisations in the United Kingdom (2 C, 19 P) S.
English National Ballet (2 C, 33 P) F. English folk dance (3 C, 24 P) L. ... Pages in category "Dance in England" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of ...
The hornpipe is any of several dance forms and their associated tunes, played and danced in Great Britain and Ireland and elsewhere from the 16th century until the present day. The earliest references to hornpipes are from England, with Hugh Aston 's Hornepype of 1522 and others referring to Lancashire hornpipes in 1609 and 1613. [ 1 ]
Morris dancers with handkerchiefs in York. 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, usually wearing bell pads on their shins, their shoes or both.
The following is a list with the most notable dances. Names of many Greek dances may be found spelt either ending with -o or with -os. This is due to the fact that the word for "dance" in Greek is a masculine noun, while the dance itself can also be referred to by a neuter adjective used substantively. Thus one may find both "hasapiko" ("the ...
The English Year: A Month-by-Month Guide to the Nation's Customs and Festivals, from May Day to Mischief Night. Penguin. Sharp, Cecil J. (1911). The Sword Dances of Northern England, Together with the Horn Dance of Abbots Bromley. London: Novello & Co. Sharp, Cecil J. (1912). The Sword Dances of Northern England: Songs and Dance Airs, Book II ...
Comical 18th-century country dance; engraving by Hogarth. A country dance is any of a very large number of social dances of a type that originated in England in the British Isles; it is the repeated execution of a predefined sequence of figures, carefully designed to fit a fixed length of music, performed by a group of people, usually in couples, in one or more sets.