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A shop horo of Bulgaria Laz dancers in Armenia, circa 1911. Circle dance, or chain dance, is a style of social dance done in a circle, semicircle or a curved line to musical accompaniment, such as rhythm instruments and singing, and is a type of dance where anyone can join in without the need of partners.
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The most significant features of the khorovod dance is to hold hands or the little finger of the partners while dancing in a circle. The circle dance symbolised in ancient Russian culture "moving around the sun" and was a pagan rite with the meaning of unity and friendship. The female organizer or leader of the dance was called khorovodnitsa.
Dance with musicians, Tacuinum sanitatis casanatense (Lombardy, Italy, late 14th century) Sources for an understanding of dance in Europe in the Middle Ages are limited and fragmentary, being composed of some interesting depictions in paintings and illuminations, a few musical examples of what may be dances, and scattered allusions in literary texts.
Syrtos [note 1] is a traditional Greek 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. [1] Syrtos and its relative kalamatianos are the most popular dances throughout Greece and Cyprus, and are frequently danced by the Greek diaspora worldwide. They ...
Faroese chain dance in Sjónleikarhúsið in Tórshavn on Ólavsøka 29 July 2011. The Faroese chain dance (Faroese: Føroyskur dansur, Danish: Kædedans) is the national circle dance of the Faroe Islands, accompanied by kvæði, the Faroese ballads. [1] The dance is a typical Medieval dance medieval ring dance. The dance is danced ...
The word carol is derived from the Old French word carole, a circle dance accompanied by singers (in turn derived from the Latin choraula). Carols were very popular as dance songs from the 1150s to the 1350s. [23] Carols developed in the fourteenth century as a simple song, with a verse and refrain structure. [24]
The khigga is a group of traditional hand-holding dances similar to those from the Balkans and Eastern European countries, with a single or a couple of figure dancers often added to the geometrical centre of the dancing circle. In Assyrian weddings, as well as parties and other various social gatherings, people may dance khigga for hours.