The Arkan is a popular dance of the Hutsul people. It is performed by amateurs, professional Ukrainian dance ensembles as well as other performers of folk dances. Hutsuls or Huculs (Ukrainian: Гуцули, singular Гуцул) are a group of Ruthenians (Ukrainian) highlanders. ... A Ukrainian dance troupe at the BC Ukrainian Cultural Festival Ukrainian Dance most often to refers to Ukrainian Folk-Stage Dance (as it is known by ethnographers and dance historians), a stylized form of a Folk Dance based in part on the movements contained in, and the actual traditional dances... Folk dance is a term used to describe a large number of dances that tend to share the following attributes: They were originally danced in about the 19th century or earlier (or are, in any case, not currently copyrighted); Their performance is dominated by an inherited tradition rather than by...