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Circle dances are choreographed to many different styles of music and rhythms. Modern circle dance mixes traditional folk dances, mainly from European or Near Eastern sources, with recently choreographed ones to a variety of music both ancient and modern. There is a growing repertoire of new circle dances to classical music and contemporary ...
This is the main list of dances. It is a non-categorized, index list of specific dances. It may also include dances which could either be considered specific dances or a family of related dances. For example, ballet, ballroom dance and folk dance can be single dance styles or families of related dances. See following for categorized lists:
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.
Kolo (Serbian: Коло) is a South Slavic circle dance, found under this name in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia. It is inscribed on the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage for Serbia. [1] Hungarian communities were also influenced by the tradition, where a similar dance is known as Kalala. [2]
A traditional oro playing in North Macedonia. Hora, also known as horo and oro, is a type of circle dance traditionally performed in Southeast Europe.Circle dances with similar names are found in Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, North Macedonia, Greece and culturally adopted by ethnic minorities such as the Ashkenazi Jews [1] (Yiddish: האָרע hore), Sephardic Jews (Ladino: הורו horo) and ...
Dabke (Arabic: دبكة also spelled dabka, dabki, dubki, dabkeh, plural dabkaat) [1] is a Levantine folk dance, [2] [3] particularly popular among Lebanese, Jordanian, Palestinian, and Syrian communities. [4] Dabke combines circle dance and line dancing and is widely performed at weddings and other
This is a list of dance categories, different types, styles, or genres of dance. For older and more region-oriented vernacular dance styles, see List of ethnic, regional, and folk dances by origin .