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Spanish Folk
Dances
Apart from ”Sevillanas”, there are more folk dances in
Spain, for example:
“Jotas Aragonesas” or ”Extremeñas”
”Muñeiras” from Galicia
“Isas” from The Canary Islands.
But we are going to speak about the most famous one:
“Sevillanas”.
ISA from The Canary Islands
Sevillanas are a
traditional folk dance
from Seville, Andalusia
(Spain). They came up
around the time of the
Catholic Monarchs. They
developed from
“seguidillas castellanas”,
and in the XVII century
they started to be called
“sevillanas”. It is typical
to dance them in
different fairs and
pilgrimages for example
in the April Fair in
Seville, in the Rocío…
Sevillanas: A popular
dance
This dance is included in
“palos del flamenco”
(flamenco varieties) with
other folk dances.
Nowadays “sevillanas” are
the most popular dance in
Spain, and also in other
countries in the word.
That is because lots of
professional sevillanas
dancers go abroad on
tours.
CLOTHES AND ACCESORIES
In woman:
1. The typical dress
2. High Heel shoes.
Accesories:
1. Castanets
2. Necklace
3. Brazalets
4. Combs
5. Pending
6. Shawl
CLOTHES AND ACCESORIES
For men:
1. Shirt
2. Trousers
3. Sash with braces
4. Jacket
Accesories:
1. Castanets.
The music for “Sevillanas” is played by Spanish
guitars, castanets and it is sung by one or several
voices. In addition, the rhythm is accompanied with
palms that follow the compass.
The April Fair in Seville is a very important
social meeting in Spain.
People from all over the country and all over
the world meet around a bottle of “fino
wine” and delicious Andalusian tapas.
Local people enjoy themselves dancing
Sevillanas dressed in the beautiful
traditional dresses.
HORSE CARRIAGES
The famous Seville April Fair Main Entrance
SEVILLE
Presentation:
Teresa Pérez 2ºB
 Paola Moreta 2ºB
 Paula Díaz 2ºC
 Elisabeth Matesanz 2ºC
 Laura Gómez 2ºC
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Workshop:
Teresa Pérez 2GB
 Sofía Kellmann 2ºB
 Paola Moreta 2ºB
 Paula Díaz 2ºC
 Elisabeth Matesanz 2ºC
 Laura Gómez 2ºC
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The name comes
from the word
‘butcher’
The dance originated
in the Middle Ages as
a battle mime with
swords performed by
the butchers guild
During the byzantine times it
was called ‘makellarikos horos’
 Hasapiko served as a base
for the syrtaki dance
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HASAPIKO DANCE VIDEO
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Syrtaki is a popular
dance of greek origin
choreographed by
G.Provias for the
1964 movie
“ZORBA THE
GREEK”
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It is a mixture of the
slow and the fast
versions of the
hasapiko dance
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Syrtaki is danced in
line or circle
formation with hands
held on neighbours’
shoulders
Line formation is
more traditional
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The name syrtaki
comes from the greek
word ‘syrtos’, a
common name for a
group of traditional
Cretan dances
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Traditional dance
from Thrace
It is danced in
variations all over
Greece
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Zonaradiko is
danced in circle
formation with hands
held on neighbours’
zonaria (belts)
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ZONARADIKO DANCE VIDEO
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The ‘Ballos’ name
perhaps comes from
the Italian ballo
dance and it is one
of the best known
island dances in
Greece.
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Its origin is in the
island culture. Men
could not approach
women easily, so
they created this
dance in order to
"flirt" with them.
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The melody of
a ballos is generally
joyous and lyrical
which is typical of the
music of the Aegean
Islands.
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This couples' dance
incorporates all the
elements of
courtship: attraction,
flirtation, display of
masculine prowess
and feminine virtue.
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CONSISTS OF
VELVET
WAISTCOAT AND
SKIRT, WAISTBAND
NECKLACE AND
SCARF
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CONSISTS OF
VEST, SHIRT,
WAISTBANDZONARI AND
VRAKA TROUSERS
Lyra
 Klarineto
 Tambouras
 Laouto
 Violin
 Toumpeleki
 Tambourine
 Gaida
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BALLOS DANCE VIDEO
SO….
LET’S DANCE!!!!!!
Krakowiak
Krakowiak comes from CracowCracow- the third of the biggest
Polish citiescities- and it’s one of the most vital national
dances in Poland. The style is very popular, especially in
southern Poland. This type of dance in Poland is like a
Salsa in Spain or Tango in Argentina.
Women wear long skirts
with colourful
belts, white blouses
and waistcoats. A couplea man and a woman is
necessary to dance
Krakowiak.
The first figure: Gallop
/ seven steps and the eighth one is
a landing.
 The second figure: Hołubce
/ Hołubce is more difficult..
right foot goes sideway
and up and next, foot
goes down. We do that
two times with both feet..
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Right foot:
And
foot up
one
foot down
and
foot up
two
foot down
Left foot:
And
foot up
Three
foot down
And
foot up
Four
foot down
The third figure.
/ march with taps
 6 steps , 3 taps
2 steps , 3 taps
2 steps , 3 taps
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 While doing the last
3 taps, we must turn
right.
Characteristic features of this dance are: jumping,
springing, lightness.
Polka podlaska
Polka comes from Czech Republic. The name is very
meanningful. It is gaining popularity all around
the world but especially in Poland, Germany and
Polka is a very dynamic,
pretty and simple dance.
Partners must be in
a good shape,
quite fit, because it
involves fast motion
and a lot of effort..
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Gallop
6 steps, 3 taps
turn round
6 steps, 3 taps
Mijanka (pair step around them by 6 steps and 3
taps keeping them arms on them huckles)
Windwill (it relies about claping and tapping)
A married couple
often performs
Polka Podlaska
on their wedding.
However these
traditional dances not
commonly performed as
they are rather
old-fashined
Dance is a word
known almost in the
smallest nook of the
world, in every country. It
is an irrevocable part of
culture so care and get to
know differents dances.
This work tries to give only an idea of the variety of
the Portugese Folklore. It is not our intention to deal
exaustively with it but only to focus our attention on
the following regions :
Each region of Portugal has its own style of
dance and songs with the most traditional
tunes.
Some of the best examples of the regional
dances are the vira, chula, corridinho,
tirana and fandango, where couples
perform a lively dance usually to a fast beat
of hand-clapping, guitars and accordions.
Dress varies depending on the kind of dance.
Sometimes, the dancers' clothing is uniform and
traditional, but in a few cases, the dress is
informal, evidencing class difference and social
status.
Although Vira is a traditional dance from the Region of Minho,
it is also presented in other Portugal’s regions. It has a 3 step
rhythm very similar to waltz, but it is faster and the couples
dance front-to-front without holding hands.
Another way to dance the Vira is:
Embraced pairs form a big
circle that evolves inverse
clockwise. At a certain time the
boys leave their pairs in the
circle and go to the centre,
where they hit the floor with their
right foot, and return backing to
their respective pairs. The circle
starts to rotate again, and the
next time the circle stops it will
be the girls that will go to the
This dance is done in male pairs by stomping and
tapping in a sort of dance off between each pair.
Traditionally, one dancer challenges the other with
difficult steps, and the other dancer responds by
repeating those steps and adding his own on, so
that the person who forgets the steps first “loses”
the dance off.
Dancers will whirl, waggle their fingers and stomp their
feet in a multicolored whirlwind of traditional rhythms.
They dance to the accompaniment of short wooden
sticks called paulitos, which clack together, producing
intricate rhythmic patterns.
Pauliteiros are the dancers of a
Portuguese folklore dance, the
warrior dance of Terras de Miranda,
called “dança dos paus” (“the stick
dance”), which represents local
historical moments. It uses bagpipes,
a snare drum and a bass drum, and
it’s traditionally danced by eight men
that wear a skirt and a linen shirt, a
brown vest, leather boots, whool
socks, a hat that can be decorated
with flowers and finally, a pair of
sticks that they use in a diverse series
of steps and coordenated movements
that simulate a fight.
Snare drum
Paulitos
castanets
Bass drum
vest
coloured
kerchiefs
hat
boots
sticks
shirt
socks
skirt
Fish marketer
Costume
Working
Costume
Póvoa de
Varzim
Pilgrimage
costume
Sunday Costume
Peasant Worker Costume
Farmer
Costume
A traditional Portuguese
dance is 'Fandango.' This
music and dance are not
credited as having Celtic
roots, but originally was
played in the same 6/8
tempo. Fandango includes
stationary arms, rapid leg
movement and a lineup of
steppers.
Two male dancers face each other, dancing and
tap-dancing one at each time, showing which one
has the most lightness and repertoire of feet
changes in the tap-dancing. The dancers can be
boy and girl, boy and boy (most frequent) or rarely
two girls. While one of the dancers dances, the
other just "goes along". Afterwards, they "both drag
their feet for a while" until the other one takes his
turn. They stay there, disputing, seeing which one of
them makes the feet transitions more eye-catching.
The corridinho is a form of Portuguese
dance, namely in the Algarve. It is
danced
with
the
pairs
always
embraced, forming a circle, girls
inside and the boys outside the circle.
By rotating the circle the pairs evolve
side by side. At a certain time, when the
music as a stronger beat, their feet hit the
floor more intensely, stopping the
rotation, to resume afterwards. Further
away in the dance, the pairs embraced
waltz by spinning in the same place. Next
the circle starts rotating again always for
the right side.
The dance, reflects the burdens of rural patterns
of work, the carrier’s dance.
The dancers bend beneath the weight of
imaginary stacks of sugar cane, or baskets of
bananas, carried along the islands steep paths, or
the rhythmic stamping of the dancers feet reflects
the custom of crushing grapes for wine with bare
feet.
The tammurriata, also
known as “dance and
singing on the drum”, is an
ancient form of choralmusic still widespread in
some areas of the
Campania.
It takes place primarily during
seasonal celebrations of
collective ritual associated
with the popular religion.
The "dance on the drum" is
the direct expression of
oral country culture and it’s
linked up to beliefs and
ancient archaic cults of preChristian origin.
The tammurriata is couple
dance, which runs within
"circle" made up of
musicians,"singers" and all
those present that they are
equal to a substantial part of
the dancers.
As the couple dance tammurriata
not be understood solely as a
courtship dance, in fact it also
makes same-sex and can still
express different values,
depending on the type of
communication that is to be
determined between the two
dancers.
The tammurriata
takes its name from
the drum that beats
the rhythm, known
as "tammorra" or
"tammurro“,
consisting of a skin
stretched over a
circle of wood on
which set of rattles
are called "e cicere"
or "e cimbale"
castanets, carved
in wood and
consist of two parts
joined together by
a cord.
To tammorra and castanets can be added:
the putipù or Caccavella
(friction drum made of a
clay pot or tin covered with
a skin, which is fixed a rod)
the triccheballacche or scetavajasse
(compound three wooden hammers
in the middle fixed, hammers which
can be applied also rattles).