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folk dance

dances that were danced to traditional folk festivals and in traditional societies and are still been danced
Intangible type_of_dance Q201022
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Summary

folk dance is a type of dance[1]. It ranks in the top 10% of type of dance entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,873 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: social dance[3]
  • Part of: folk culture[4]
  • Commons category: Folk dance[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Folk dance[6], Category:Folk dances[7]
  • Commons gallery: Folk dance[8]
  • Different from: national dance[9]
  • Has list: list of ethnic, regional, and folk dances by origin[10]
  • Practiced by: folk dancer[11]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[12], Wiki Loves Cultura Popular Brasil - Danças, festivais e músicas[13], Wikipedia:WikiProject 1000 important articles about Denmark[14]

Why It Matters

folk dance has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 98 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 16w ago · Putnik · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id → liaudies-choreografija
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id: liaudies-choreografija"
  2. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0001430-lidove-tance
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0001430-lidove-tance, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Folk dance, Category:Folk dances
    Practiced by → folk dancer
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 18196, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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