Folk dance
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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 dances or dances of ritual origin are not consid
Traditional Valencian dances.
Italians dancing the tarantella.
Serbian folk group dancing at a festival.
Rapper Sword Dancers - Sheffield Steel.
Polka
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Polka is a dance style and genre of dance music in 24 originating in nineteenth-century Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic. Though generally associated with Czech and Central European culture, po
Folk dance
…used when it is required to emphasize the cultural roots of the dance. In this sense, nearly all folk dances are ethnic ones. If some dances, such as polka, cross ethnic boundaries and even cross the boundary between "folk" and "ballroom dance", ethnic differences are often considerable enough to mention…
A polka dance
Street musicians in Prague playing a polka
Polka, c. 1840
People dancing polka in Tampere, Finland in 2006