What is Folk Dance?
• A deceptively simple question – but no simple answer. Certainly any description which includes names of dances, styles or music or steps or dance movements is going to be incomplete. ‘Folk Dances’ are more those which are part of a culture, tradition or community, typically ones where you say “I don’t really know where I learned that”. Answers include in the ways which refers to the manner people learn the dances, that folk dances are more community-orientated than commercial. • The webfeet attempt at answering the question is to say look around at the dancers, if you’ve got a generation or more of of people dancing then you’re at a folk dance, if you’ve got a narrow age range, despite the dances, you’re elsewhere.
