The Folk Dance are dances that are developed by people that reflect the life of the people of a certain country or region. Not all ethnic dances are folk dances. The terms "ethnic" and "traditional" are used when it is required to emphasize the cultural roots of the dance. If some dances, such as polka, cross ethnic boundaries and even cross the boundary between "folk" and "ballroom dance", ethnic differences are often considerable enough to mention, e.g., Czech polka vs. German polka.
Flamenco is a professionalized art-form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain in the autonomous communities of Andalusia, Extremadura and Murcia. In a wider sense, it refers to musical traditions and more modern musical styles which have themselves deeply influenced by and become blurred with the development of flamenco over the past two centuries.
Finnish Dance Sport Federation (FDSF) - is the official national governing body for DanceSport (the competitive version of ballroom dancing) in the Finland. Was founded in 1976 and has been a member of World DanceSport Federation(WDSF) ever since.
Exhibition Dancing is one of the three divisions of Ballroom Dance, along with Social Dancing and competitive dancing (DanceSport). Exhibition dancing is choreographed Ballroom Dancing, where movements and lines of a theatrical nature are used to enhance the atmosphere of a dance that is performed before an audience.
Entrechat is a classical ballet term meaning “interweaving” or “braiding.”
The English Amateur Dancesport Association (EADA) is a volunteer-led organisation which represents the interests of Amateur Dancers (including Ballroom, Latin American, Sequence dancing and Freestyle) within England.
The Empire Dance Championship is a sanctioned National Dance Council of America (NDCA) four-day championship hosted annually in August in New York, NY (USA) since 2013 by current organizers Allan Tornsberg, Vibeke Toft, Giampiero Giannico and Katharina Giannico.
The Eminence Junior Dance Festival (EJDF) is a one day competition, organized by Sports Administration, is hosted in Jersey City, USA.
The Eastern United States Dancesport Championships is one of the oldest Ballroom Dance competitions in North America. Hosted annually in Boston, Massachusetts in Mid-February by Mark Nocera, the Eastern United States Dancesport Championships is one of the three original Championships that were run by the USISTD in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
The Eminence Cup is a sanctioned 3-day DSF and World Dance Organization (WDO) sanctioned competition.
