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men’s ceremonial dance with swords, existing in four main varieties. Combat dances with swords (for example, the ancient Greek Pyrrhic dance) were used for military training. Circular guerrilla dances with swordplay occur in Turkey and the Balkans. In Scotland (the Gillie Callum dance), the Balkans, India, and elsewhere, one or more dancers perform intricate steps over two swords crossed on the ground. Midwinter hilt-and-point dances, once widespread in Europe, survive in England, the Basque country, and a few other places. In these dances, a circle of 4 to 20 or more dancers—linked by holding the hilt of one sword, the point of the next—leap over the swords, twist the circle, and weave the swords into a knot. If a folk play or its remnants accompany the dance, the knot may be placed over the neck of one character, who “dies” and is magically revived.
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FOLK DANCE. recreational or ceremonial dance performed usually by members of the community to which the dance is traditional. Each of these criteria can be contradicted by dances that are indisputably folk dances, . . .
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