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An Dro
An dro or ''en dro'' (Breton: "The Turn") is a Breton folk dance in . It is a form of a circle dance. Technique The dancers link little fingers in a long line, swinging their arms, and moving to their left by taking longer steps in that direction than when stepping right. In the generic case the arm movements consist first of two circular motions going up and back (at about chest level) followed by one in the opposite direction (down then front); these are done quite close to the body. This is then followed by a circle in the same sense as the last (down then front) but with full arm extension and extending behind the body. The cycle then repeats. Steps Stepping is on the beat throughout, moving to the left on the close arm circles and in place (or sometimes to the right) on the second two. The stance is upright, with soft knees. A full set of steps takes 8 times, divided in two half-steps: *1st half-step, 4 counts: ** 1st count: the left foot moves on the left ** 2nd count: t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fest Noz 3
Fest may refer to: * Fest, Danish/German/Norwegian/Swedish/Breton for party * Fest, a type of festival * The Fest, music festival in Gainesville, Florida * Joachim Fest (1926–2006), German historian and journalist * ''Fest Magazine'', is an Edinburgh Festival review magazine * Fest, a fictional planet in the '' Star Wars'' franchise FEST may refer to: * FEST (Faculty of Moscow State Forest University) * Federation of Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades * FEST (film festival), an annual film festival in Belgrade, Serbia * Foreign Emergency Support Team, a U.S. government short-notice anti-terrorism unit See also * * * Festschrift, a book honoring a respected person, especially an academic, presented during his or her lifetime * ''Festuca ''Festuca'' (fescue) is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the grass family Poaceae (subfamily Pooideae). They are evergreen or herbaceous perennial tufted grasses with a height range of and a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omnia
Omnia may refer to: * Omnia (band), a pagan folk band from the Netherlands * Omnia (DJ), Ukrainian trance/progressive house DJ and producer * Samsung Omnia, a group of smartphones by Samsung * Omnia Township, Cowley County, Kansas Omnia Township is a township in Cowley County, Kansas, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 357. Geography Omnia Township covers an area of and contains one incorporated settlement, Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the capital and ... * Omnia, a fictional nation in the Discworld universe See also * * Omni (other) * Omnis (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yalli
Halay is the national dance of Turkey and a regional category of folk dance styles in central, southern, eastern, and southeastern regions of the country. It is mainly performed by Turks, Arabs, and Kurds in Turkey. Halay and similar dances are parts of multiple ancient folk dance traditions and cultures throughout the Middle East and regions in proximity. These dances are mostly found in weddings and generally accompanied by zurna and davul, but in the recent years, electronic instruments have started to replace them. Typically, Halay dancers form a circle or a line, while holding each other in many ways, such as finger to finger, shoulder to shoulder, or hand to hand. The last and the first player may hold a piece of cloth. It usually begins slow and speeds up. Due to the restrictions concerning COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey Halay dance had been restricted in weddings. Because of the pandemic weddings were required people to hold sticks connecting each other, rather than their h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamzara
Tamzara ( hy, Թամզարա, translit=T'amzara; aii, ܬܢܙܪܐ, translit=Tanzara; az, Tənzərə; el, Τάμσαρα, translit=Támsara; tr, Tamzara) is a folk dance native to Armenian Highlands. It is today performed by Armenians, Assyrians, Azerbaijanis (in the regions of Sharur, Nakhchivan and parts of Iranian Azerbaijan), and Greeks. The word Tamzara means "half gilt" or "half decoration". The women dancing used to wear golden items including necklaces, beads, rings, ear-rings and other jewelry and those women expressed beauty and brightness, to which the name alludes. This dance was also especially popular in the formerly Armenian-populated regions of Erzincan, Erzurum, Kigi, Arapgir, Harput, and Malatya. There are many versions of Tamzara, with slightly different music and steps, coming from the various regions and old villages in the Armenian Highlands. History and description Legend has it that the dance was brought to Armenia by the ancient Assyrians dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syrtos
Syrtos ( el, συρτός, ''syrtos'' (also ''sirtos''); plural , ''syrtoi'' (also ''sirtoi''); sometimes called in English using the Greek accusative forms ''syrto'' (also ''sirto''); from the el, links=no, σύρω, ''syro'' (also ''siro''), "to drag he dance) is – in classical and modern Greece – a traditional dance in which the dancers link hands to form a chain or circle, headed by a leader who intermittently breaks away to perform improvised steps. Syrtos, along with its relative kalamatianos, are the most popular dances throughout Greece and Cyprus, and are frequently danced by the Greek diaspora worldwide. They are very popular in social gatherings, weddings and religious festivals. Syrtos and kalamatianos use the same dance steps, but the syrtos is in time and the kalamatianos is in time, organized in a ''slow'' (3 beat), ''quick'' (2 beat), ''quick'' (2 beat) rhythm. Syrtos and kalamatianos are line dances and circle dances, done with the dancers in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ethnic, Regional, And Folk Dances By Origin
This is a list of dances grouped by ethnicity, country, or region. These dances should also be listed on the general, noncategorized index list of specific dances. Albania *Dance of Osman Taka *Entarisi ala benziyor * Gusharaveli *Napoloni * Pogonishte * Rugovo (sword dance) *Shota (dance) * Vallja e cobanit Argentina * Carnavalito * Chacarera * Cueca *Cumbia Villera * Milonga *Tango * Zamba Armenia Note: in Armenian "par" means "dance". * Berd *Entarisi ala benziyor *Kochari *Shalakho *Tamzara * Temuraga *Yarkhushta Austria *Ländler *Schuhplattler *Tyrolienne *Waltz Azerbaijan * Abayı * Agir Karadagi * Anzali * Asma kasma * Choban Regsi * Halay * Innaby * Jangi * Khanchobany * * Shalakho * Tarakama * Tello * Uzundara * Youz bir Belarus * Liavonicha ( Lyavonikha) *Karahod ( Khorovod) * Trasucha (Poĺka-Trasucha) * Kryzhachok Bolivia *Awki awki *Caporales *Diablada *Kullawada * Llamerada *Morenada * Oruro Diablada *P'aquchi *Siklla *Tobas * Waka waka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kolo (dance)
Kolo ( sr-Cyrl, Коло) is a UNESCO List of Intagible Cultural Heritage inscribed South Slavic circle dance, found under this name in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia. History According to Wilkes (1995), the kolo has an Illyrian origin as the dance seems to resemble dances depicted on funeral monuments of the Roman era. Description The circle dance is usually performed amongst groups of at least three people and up to several dozen people. Dancers hold each other's hands or each other's waists. They form a circle, a single chain or multiple parallel lines. Kolo requires almost no movement above the waist. The basic steps are easy to learn. Experienced dancers demonstrate virtuosity by adding different ornamental elements, such as syncopated steps. Each region has at least one unique kolo. It is difficult to master the dance and even most experienced dancers cannot master all of them. Kolo is performed at weddings, social, cultural, and religious ceremonies.< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khigga
Khigga is a style of Assyrian folk dance in which multiple dancers hold each other's hands and form a semi-circle or a curved line. There are multiple foot patterns that dancers perform. Its thought to have been danced for thousands of years. It is one of the most common and simplest Assyrian folk dances, generally performed at weddings and other joyous occasions. Set in common time, khigga is accompanied by a moderate dance beat and is usually performed to Assyrian folk/pop music. To note, the term ''Khigga'' is occasionally used to denote all the Assyrian folk circle dances, i.e. "Khigga'd Belaty" ("Khigga of Belaty"), "Khigga'd Gubareh", etc.THIRTY ASSYRIAN FOLK DANCES by Pete Pnuel Bet Basoo from AINA Background Khigga is traditionally danced with music played on the |
Hora (dance)
Hora, also known as horo and oro, is a type of circle dance originating in Jewish communities and the Balkans but also found in other countries. Etymology The name, spelled differently in various countries, is derived from the Greek ('' khorós''): "dance" which is cognate with the Ancient Greek art form of ('' khoreía''). The original meaning of the Greek word may have been "circle". Also, the words ''hora'' and ''oro'' are found in many Slavic languages and have the meaning of "round (dance)"; the verb ''oriti'' means "to speak, sound, sing" and previously meant "to celebrate". The Greek () is cognate with Pontic Greek (), and has also given rise to the names of Bulgarian (), Macedonian (), Romanian , / in Serbo-Croatian, the Turkish form and in Hebrew (). The dance of Georgia also might be connected to the Horon dance in the neighbouring Turkish regions, as it rose out of the Adjara region, where Kartvelian Laz people co-existed for centuries with Greek Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fest Noz
A Fest Noz (Breton for ''night festival'') is a Breton traditional festival, with dancing in groups and live musicians playing acoustic instruments. Although it is all too easy to write off the ' and ''fêtes folkloriques'' as modern inventions, most of the traditional dances of the Fest Noz are ancient, some dating back to the Middle Ages, providing a way for the community to grasp hold of its past and relish a deep sense of being with ancestors and with place. The plural in Breton is ''festoù-noz'', but the Goadec Sisters (a family of traditional singers) used to say ''festnozoù'', and the French may also say in French ''des fest-noz''. On 5 December 2012 the fest-noz was added by UNESCO to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Fest-noz A fest-noz (plural festoù-noz) is a traditional dance festival in Brittany. Most Breton dances are social dances, in a group. Currently, many festoù-noz are also held outside Brittany within diaspora, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faroese Dance
The Faroese chain dance ( fo, Føroyskur dansur, da, Kædedans) is the national circle dance of the Faroe Islands, accompanied by kvæði, the Faroese ballads. The dance is a typical mediaeval ring dance. The dance is danced traditionally in a circle, but when there are many dancers, they usually let it swing around in various wobbles within the circle. Dance rules When dancing there are a few rules. One is that your right hand must overlap the left hand of the one next to you while moving your feet two paces to the left and one pace back. The "skipari" is the one who sings and must know all the verses, while the people who are dancing with him in the circle join in at the chorus. ''The following description is by V. U. Hammershaimb, ''Færøsk Anthologi'', 1891:'' The storyline of the ballad is attended by everybody with great interest, and if something especially pleasant or moving occurs, it can be seen in the look and movement of the dancers – when the rage of the battl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dabke
''Dabke'' ( ar, دبكة also spelled ''dabka'', ''dubki'', ''dabkeh'', plural ''dabkaat'') is a Levantine Arab folk dance. Dabke combines circle dance and line dancing and is widely performed at weddings and other joyous occasions. The line forms from right to left and leader of the ''dabke'' heads the line, alternating between facing the audience and the other dancers. In English, it can be transcribed as ''dabka'', ''dabki'', ''dabkeh''. Etymology and history The etymology of 'dabke' is uncertain but is thought to be derived from the Levantine Arabic word ''dabaka'' ( ar, دبكة) meaning "stamping of the feet" or "to make a noise". The dabkeh jumps may have originated in ancient Canaanite fertility rituals related to agriculture, chasing off evil spirits and protecting young plants. According to Lebanese historian Youssef Ibrahim Yazbec, the dabke descends from Phoenician dances thousands of years old. Another theory is that stomping part of dabke started out as a way o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
