village dance
Rural social festivity
A village dance is a social gathering in a rural community where people dance together, typically to folk or traditional music.
The term evokes a simpler, more communal era: The whole town turned out for the village dance.
Such events historically served as important social occasions where young people might meet potential partners.
- folkRegular common people
- folk musicCommunity-born acoustic songs
- squareRhombus with right angles
- town squareCentral civic space
- festivalOrganized public celebration
country fair · maypole · fiddle · accordion · old time · bonfire · harvest · harvest moon · gathering · peasant · tradition · courtyard · circle · holding hands · tambourine · stomping · hand clapping · clapping
- folk dancefolk traditions, folk costumes, folk musicians, folk revival, polka
- Renaissance fairejousting, feast, masquerade ball, harvest festival, period costumes
- danceballet, breaking, b-boying, ballroom, waltz
- dancesballet, waltz, tango, salsa, hula
- Asian performanceBeijing opera, Peking opera, Chinese opera, acrobatics, shadow puppetry
- Belly Danceshimmy, shimmies, undulation, undulations, hip scarf
scale and formality
village dancegrand ball
state banquet · royal gala · debutante ball · charity ball · inaugural ball
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