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Traditional Armenian Dance. Kochari (Քոչարի) - Kochari is one of the most popular dances of Armenians. Kochari is danced in a group of men and women and is known for its tune played on the zurna. Shalakho (Շալախօ) - A dance for men from Ancient Armenia. It is performed in dance studios by men, but danced at public gatherings by ...
Armenian Highlands. Tamzara[ a] is a folk dance native to Armenian Highlands. In Armenia the dance originally had a ritual character, it was a wedding song and dance. Now "Tamzara" has lost its former ritual significance, when it was performed during almost all community events and parties. It is today performed by Armenians, Assyrians, and ...
Yarkhushta belongs to a wider category of Armenian "clap dances" (ծափ-պարեր, tsap parer). The dance is performed by men, who face each other in pairs. The key element of the dance is a forward movement where participants rapidly approach one another and vigorously clap onto the palms of hands of dancers in the opposite row.
A part of Armenian kochari. Armenians have been dancing Kochari for over a thousand years. The dance is danced by both men and women and is intended to be intimidating. More modern forms of Kochari have added a "tremolo step", which involves shaking the whole body. It spread to the eastern part of Armenia after the Armenian genocide.
Members of the Armenian Dance Group of Fresno perform during a renaming ceremony at H. Roger Tatarian Elementary School in north Fresno on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. The renaming ceremony was held ...
Adana massacre. Anti-Armenianism. Hidden Armenians. First Nagorno-Karabakh War. Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. v. t. e. Vanoush Gerasimich Khanamirian ( Armenian: Վանուշ Խանամիրյան, November 5, 1927 – October 5, 2011) was an Armenian ballet, traditional and folkloric dance choreographer.
The music of Armenia (Armenian: հայկական երաժշտություն haykakan yerazhshtut’yun) has its origins in the Armenian highlands, dating back to the 3rd millennium BCE, [1] [2] and is a long-standing musical tradition that encompasses diverse secular and religious, or sacred, music (such as the sharakan Armenian chant and taghs, along with the indigenous khaz musical notation).
Her children were members of the group, as was her sister-in-law, Alice Aghavni Kasbarian. The group performed at the World's Fair in New York in 1964 and 1965; later they also performed at Carnegie Hall, the Democratic National Convention, and the American Bicentennial festival at Rockefeller Center. She was a member of the Armenian Folk Dance ...