Sentence examples for folk performance from inspiring English sources

The word panchali refers to a type of narrative folk song that used to be performed in Bengal and was the forerunner of another type of folk performance, the jatra.

In 1959 Tanvir and his future wife, Moneeka Mishra, founded Naya Theatre, a company devoted to folk performance.

She does so with academic ballet footwork, but so matched to Spanish rhythms and sonorities in the music that it feels like a folk performance.

At the Turning Point Coffeehouse in Piermont, the singer-songwriter Lucy Kaplansky will give a folk performance next Sunday at 7 P.M.

"Encountering Saracens in Italian Romance Epic and its Folk Performance Traditions". Teaching Medieval and Early-Modern Cross Cultural Encounters Across Disciplines and Periods.

His "Ghashiram Kotwal" ("Ghashiram the Constable"), a brilliant satire on political violence, is a musical combining Marathi folk performance styles and contemporary theatrical techniques.

Coton Road, Grantchester, free, grantchester.org.uk 26 December A bit like pantomimes, mummers plays are comic folk performances that have been performed around Europe since the Middle Ages.

Fixed melodies accompany most folk performances.

Court and folk performances once used no scenery at all.

Whatever their nature, these were folk performances, in part religious rites connected with seasonal festivals and in part joyful entertainment.

The five-day festival includes folk performances, costume exhibitions and horse racing, as well as business talks.