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Trabzon Region Folk Dances

Trabzon Region Turkish Folk Dance

Here is a video that will be contain all of folk dance steps here i share.. Duz Horon for man and woman, Horon Kurma for man and woman, Sallama, Siksara (Siksaray), Atlama from Trabzon Region, Horon type of dance..

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Hora Region

Hora Region

Hora type folk dances with melodic and rhythmic structure and with a fast performance facing one another and different cultural structure of the region and the dominant measure is 9/8 but some other measures are used as well. Their traditional instrument are 2 drum – 2 zurna combination, the most …

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Bar Region

Bar Region

With their structure and formation, they are the dances performed by groups in the open. They are spread, in general, over the eastern part of Anatolia (Erzurum, Bayburt, Agri, Kars, Artvin and Erzincan provinces). The characteristic of their formation is that they are performed side-by-side, hand, shoulder and arm-in-arm. Woman …

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Zeybek Region

Zeybek Region

The zeybek is a form of folk music and dance peculiar to Western Anatolia in Turkey. It is named after the Zeybeks. The Greek popular dance form the Zeibekiko was originated from the Anatolian Turkish zeybek dance. İt is believed that this dance was created by zeybek warriors who try …

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Horon Region

Horon Region

The rapid shoulder and upper body movements from the waist is said to have evolved from the modern Turkish version dating to recent centuries. These movement are said to have derived from the shimmying of the little silver anchovy fish (Turkish: Hamsi) found in mass abundance in the Black Sea, …

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