Folk Dancing is a simple dance form meant for group performance created for a reason like harvest of food, while classical is for enlightenment. Classical Indian dance is based on Natya Shastra.
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Basically folk dance is a recent movement that values the traditional dances of various peoples. Classical dance is dance that is highly stylized, intended for performance, and usually developed over a long period of time, often from what we today would call folk dances. Generally it is understood that classical dance is developed in the high society circles while folk dances are common people's dances.
Tribal dance refers to a dance being performed/originated by people living in a tribal society, while folk dancing doesn't say anything about how the society is ordered. It might be feudal or anything.
BIHAR. Also jat-jatin is the folk dance of BIHAR
The Philippines consist of 7107 islands, broken down into three groups, Luzon, Mindano, and Visayas. Their folk dances represent actual activities and chores they endure to survive, while other nations dances are more traditional, such as the Chinese symbolic dragon dance, Japanese ancestral dance, and American square dance.
Philippine folk dances are the dances of the original ethnic groups that inhabited the Philippines, along with modifications and additions resulting from 300 years of Spanish influence. American folk dance is not so much American as the ethnic dances of the various groups who migrated to America from around the world.
traditional folk dance,occupational folk dance