Folk dance is the dance of the people.
Ethnic dance is folk dance that has distinctive cultural characteristics.
For the purposes of this listing, Folk dance will refer to courses and events which feature dancing of several cultures, while Ethnic dance will refer to courses and events which are specific to one cultural group. Often danced in lines or circles, folk dances generally are simple patterns of repeated steps which may or may not relate to specific events in community life such as wedding dances, victory dances and dances which relate stories about an event in history such as the Polish Krakowiak.