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Differentiate Folk, Ethnic and Cultural Dance
Differentiate Folk, Ethnic and Cultural Dance
- Folk dance refers to specifically those social and festive dances performed by villagers or
peasantry in communal celebration of sorts while ethnic dance is a term used to denote the
general body of all dances of ethnic minorities in any given nation. On the other hand,
cultural dance are dances created in the context of a specific culture. These dances have
important elements that are significant to the culture in which they were developed.