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Russian Folk Dances
Russian folk dance () is an important part of Russian culture. Some of the unique characteristics suggest that many elements were developed by the early Russian population. History Many Russian dances became known from the 10th century. Russia witnessed various invasions from other countries. Due to its location and size the country also came into contact with many different cultures through migration and trading. In turn, a Eurasian cultural mix of music and dance helped develop Russian folk dances. Many of these early dances were performed and practiced by the lower classes. Typically the upper classes would watch performers rather than participate in the dances themselves. The original Russian folk dance traditions continue to play an important part in the culture of the country and have been in constant interaction with Russia’s many ethnic groups. Russian folk dances are also in interrelations with other types of artistic expressions. One example can be seen in the Ball ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China
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Kennedy Center
The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, commonly known as the Kennedy Center, is the national cultural center of the United States, located on the eastern bank of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. Opened on September 8, 1971, the center hosts many different genres of performance art, such as theater, dance, classical music, jazz, pop, Psychedelic music, psychedelic, and folk music. It is the official residence of the National Symphony Orchestra and the Washington National Opera. Authorized by the National Cultural Center Act of 1958, which requires that its programming be sustained through private funds, the center represents a public–private partnership. Its activities include educational and outreach initiatives, almost entirely funded through ticket sales and gifts from individuals, corporations, and private foundations. The center receives annual federal funding to pay for building maintenance and operation. The original building, designed by arch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Traditional Music
Russian folk music specifically deals with the folk music traditions of the ethnic Russian people. Russian folk music is used as the basic foundation for the creation of all Russian professional music. Ethnic styles in the modern era The performance and promulgation of ethnic music in Russia has a long tradition. Initially it was intertwined with various forms of art music, however, in the late 19th century it began to take on a life of its own with the rise in popularity of folkloric ensembles, such as the folk choir movement led by Mitrofan Pyatnitsky and the Russian folk instrument movement pioneered by Vasily Andreyev. In Soviet Russia, folk music was categorized as being democratic (of the people) or proletarian (of the working class) as opposed to art music, which was often regarded as being bourgeois. After the revolution, along with proletarian "mass music" (music for the proletarian masses) it received significant support from the state. In post-World War II Russia, ... [...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 "bar" 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsyganochka
''Tsyganochka'' (, "Gypsy Girl") is a Russian folk dance stylized under the Russian Roma tunes.Широков А.'' Музыка русского народного танца'' Советский композитор, 1988, p. 10. The music is in minor tonality, unusual in Russian folk dance, in 4/4 time signature. In the common version called "Цыганочка с выходом" ("Tsyganochka with Entrance"), the tempo is initially slow and then gradually speeds up. During the slow introduction the dancer walks into the dance area, showing off, but without complicated dance figures and then gradually warms up. Music The classic melody of ''Tsyganochka with Entrance'' was written in the 19th century by the director of a Russian Roma choir and composer Ivan Vasilievich Vasiliev, an ancestor of , a singer of Russian Roma songs. He wrote the melody "Цыганская венгерка" ("Gypsy ''Vengerka''", "Hungarian Gypsy Dance") for guitar based on a verse with the same n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yablochko
Yablochko ( "little apple") is a chastushka-style folk song and dance, traditionally presented as a sailors' dance. The choreographed version of the dance first appeared in the 1926 Reinhold Glière ballet ''The Red Poppy'' and from there is known in the West as the Russian Sailors Dance. History Song There is no any "canonic" song under this name, although numerous texts are known, their common part being only its tune and the signature lines starting with "Эх, яблочко..." ("", "Ekh, little apple"), in numerous versions: "Ekh little apple, where are you rolling?" (Эх, яблочко, Да куда котишься?), "Ekh little apple on the saucer" (Эх яблочко, да на тарелочке!), etc. Verses of this kind proliferated during the Russian Civil War, in Red, Black and White camps. The song itself has nothing to do with apples, with its verse commonly being related to the political issues of the time. A variant of this song, written by Yuliy Kim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tropak
Trepak () or tropak () is a traditional East Slavic folk dance (Russian and Ukrainian). The dance is included in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, whose form is preserved in Tacheng. In music The dance is a brisk allegro in time in a major key. Accompaniment is usually on two alternating chords; dominant and tonic. One of its best known representations is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Trepak" (also known as the "Russian Dance") from the ballet ''The Nutcracker''. The dance music was also used in the last movement of his Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35. The third of Modest Mussorgsky's ''Songs and Dances of Death'' is named "Trepak". In dance The characteristic element is a simple walk with a syncopated stamp, often done to a quick duple meter rhythm Rhythm (from Greek , ''rhythmos'', "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a " movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak eleme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Troika (dance)
Troika is a Russian performance dance based on Russian folk dances. The Russian word ''troika'' means three-horse team/gear, and the dancers imitate the prancing of horses pulling a sled or a carriage. The first version was created by choreographer Nadezhda Nadezhdina for her folklore dance troupe Beroyzka in 1948. Since then this dance is included into repertoires of virtually all Russian ethnographic dance ensembles. Initially, it was a dance for a man and two women, but later choreographies with other combinations were created, such as one woman and two men or three women. Other cultures Similar folk dances are known among other Slavic peoples, e.g., the Polish Trojak. A Cajun dance of the same name, Troika, exists, similar to the Russian dance. It has been suggested that the Cajun version of the dance originated at the times when Cossacks of the Russian tsar army were stationed in Paris. There was a German contra dance ''triolet'' recorded in 1829 for groups of one man and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khorovod
The khorovod or horovod, or , , is an East Slavic and pagan art form. It is one of the oldest Russian folk dancesbeing over 1,000 years old. It is a combination of a circle dance and chorus singing, similar to the choreia of ancient Greece. The dance was also known in Russia as ''karagod'', ''tanok'' and ''krug''. Etymology The term ''khorovod'' likely descends from the Greek ''Choreia'' (Ancient Greek: χορεία); Rus' culture was heavily influenced by Greek culture. ''Khorovod'' is related to choreia ( a Greek circle dance), kolo (a South Slavic circle dance originating in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia), hora (Balkans The Balkans ( , ), corresponding partially with the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains that stretch throug ...), and kochari ( Armenian and Azerbaijani folk dance). Origin and characteristics The pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamarinskaya
''Kamarinskaya'' () is a traditional Russian folk dance, which is mostly known today as the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka's composition of the same name. Glinka's ''Kamarinskaya'', written in 1848, was the first orchestral work based entirely on Russian folk song and to use the compositional principles of that genre to dictate the form of the music. It premiered on 15 March 1850. It became a touchstone for the following generation of Russian composers ranging from the Western-oriented Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to the group of nationalists known collectively as The Five and was also lauded abroad, most notably by French composer Hector Berlioz. Traditional ''Kamarinskaya'' According to musicologist Richard Taruskin, the traditional ''Kamarinskaya'' is "a quick dance tune" otherwise known as a ''naigrish'', distinctive for its three-bar phrase lengths, which are played in an endless number of variations in moto perpetuo fashion by an instrumentalist. This tune usually accompanies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beryozka (Russian Dance Troupe)
The Beryozka or Berezka Dance Ensemble (in Russian language, Russian: ''Берёзка'', 'little birch tree') is a Dance troupe, troupe of female dancers founded by Russian choreographer and dancer Nadezhda Nadezhdina in 1948 in the Soviet Union which specializes in performing in long gowns and moving across the stage as though gliding or floating. Although often considered a form of folk dancing, its founder once stated, "Beryozka's dances are not folk dances. They are dances whose source is the creative work of the people. But these dances are composed by me". The floating step is difficult to perform. According to Nadezhdina, “Not even all our dancers can do it. You have to move in very small steps on very low half‐toe with the body held in a certain corresponding position". The troupe began touring in Western countries in the 1950s. The 22 September 1951 performance at the hall of the Stockholm Musical Academy in Sweden, for example, drew crowds too large to be accommoda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
