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Cantometrics ("song measurements") is a method developed by Alan Lomax and a team of researchers for relating elements of the world's traditional vocal music (or folk songs) to features of social organization as defined via George Murdock's Human Relations Area Files, resulting in a taxonomy of expressive human communications style.
Margamkali is an ancient Indian round dance of the St. Thomas Christians community- based in Kerala state, mainly practiced by the endogamous sub-sect known as the Knanaya or Southist Christians. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The dance retells the life and missionary work of Thomas the Apostle , based on the 3rd-century apocryphal Acts of Thomas .
Dance notation is the symbolic representation of human dance movement and form, using methods such as graphic symbols and figures, path mapping, numerical systems, and letter and word notations. Several dance notation systems have been invented, many of which are designed to document specific types of dance while others have been developed with ...
Oyilattam literally means "dance of beauty". [66] It is a folk dance with origins from southern Tamil Nadu and practiced in southern and Kongu Nadu regions. [72] [73] It was traditionally a war dance where few men wearing ankle bells would stand in a line with pieces of colored cloth and perform rhythmic steps to the accompanying music. [74]
Contradanse – Folk dance originating in England and France featuring repeated execution of a sequence of figures. Csárdás – Hungarian folk dance characterized by a variation in tempo, starting out slowly and ending in a very fast tempo. Dumka – Slavic musical form characterized by a melancholic character. Écossaise – Dance in a ...
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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.
This is a list of notable folk dance performance groups, listed by country of origin. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (November 2019)