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Kukeri dancing in Kalipetrovo. Kukeri is a divinity personifying fecundity. Sometimes in Bulgaria and Serbia it is a plural divinity. In Bulgaria, a ritual spectacle of spring (a sort of carnival) takes place after a scenario of folk theatre, in which Kuker's role is interpreted by a man attired in a sheep- or goat-pelt, wearing a horned mask and girded with a large wooden phallus.
Many Bulgarian dances are line dances, with the dancers holding hands in a straight or curved line, facing in toward the center of the dance space.Originally men and women danced in separate lines, or in a gender-segregated line in which the last woman and first man held opposite ends of a handkerchief, to avoid gender contact but today men and women often dance in mixed lines.
Nowadays they are often used as part of the traditional costume by folk dance groups and folk artists. [6] Dacian moccasins as seen in a statue at Museum Capitolini. Until 50 years ago, they were usually worn in rural areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, North Macedonia, Romania and Serbia. [7]
Pajdushko horo; [1] is a folk dance from Bulgaria [2] and North Macedonia. It features a 5-beat meter divided into "quick" (2-beat) and "slow" (3-beat) units, abbreviated quick-slow or 2+3.time 5 8 ⓘ. Like many other Balkan folk dances, each region or village has its own version of the dance. It is traditionally a men's dance, but in modern ...
The costumes cover most of the body and include decorated wooden masks of animals (sometimes double-faced) and large bells attached to the belt. Around New Year and before Lent, the kukeri walk and dance through villages to scare away evil spirits with their costumes and the sound of their bells. They are also believed to provide a good harvest ...
Bulgarian folk costume A decorated horse, prepared for a race. Horseraces take place each year to mark Todorovden (St. Theodore's day). Bulgarians often give each other a martenitsa ( мартеница ) — an adornment made of white and red yarn and worn on the wrist or pinned on the clothes — from March 1 until the end of the month.
Folk costume, traditional dress, traditional attire or folk attire, is clothing associated with a particular ethnic group, nation or region, and is an expression of cultural, religious or national identity. If the clothing is that of an ethnic group, it may also be called ethnic clothing or ethnic dress.
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