contredanse vs folk dancing

contredanse and folk dancing both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
contredanse	Yes	No	Yes	No
folk dancing	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, folk dancing is a hypernym of contredanse; that is, folk dancing is a word with a broader meaning than contredanse:

contredanse: a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line
folk dancing: a style of dancing that originated among ordinary people (not in the royal courts)

Other hypernyms of contredanse include folk dance.

contredanse (noun)	folk dancing (noun)
a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line	a style of dancing that originated among ordinary people (not in the royal courts)

contredanse (verb)	folk dancing (verb)
perform a contradance