Romanian folk dances are a wealth of generations that we owe to preserve, protect and leave our inheritance to our descendants as a proof of our identity and history. By practicing dance, the customs ...and traditions of the people are learned; young people develop harmoniously due to the various movements in which the dances are composed. Romania has a wide range of games, dances and costumes inherited from tradition, perpetuated through repertoire and ethnography, which convinced us to address and highlight the important role of the traditions, folk dances in Bihor County, the beneficial effect that they have in the personal development of the dancers. The proposed research methodology for the study addresses methods such as the survey method by applying a questionnaire and the statistical-mathematical method. The results highlight the importance of folk dances first present in the family and the fact that passion is the main motivation of dancers that drives them to practice folk dance. It is necessary to give children the opportunity to make direct contact with the sources of popular creation such as dance, music, customs and folk costume, to create optimal conditions for learning our folk dances, the priceless treasure of our people.
An important and previously unexplored body of esoteric ritual songs of the Tz'utujil Maya of Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, the "Songs of the Old Ones" are a central vehicle for the transmission of ...cultural norms of behavior and beliefs within this group of highland Maya. Ethnomusicologist Linda O'Brien-Rothe began collecting these songs in 1966, and she has amassed the largest, and perhaps the only significant, collection that documents this nearly lost element of highland Maya ritual life.This book presents a representative selection of the more than ninety songs in O'Brien-Rothe's collection, including musical transcriptions and over two thousand lines presented in Tz'utujil and English translation. (Audio files of the songs can be downloaded from the UT Press website.) Using the words of the "songmen" who perform them, O'Brien-Rothe explores how the songs are intended to move the "Old Ones"—the ancestors or Nawals—to favor the people and cause the earth to labor and bring forth corn. She discusses how the songs give new insights into the complex meaning of dance in Maya cosmology, as well as how they employ poetic devices and designs that place them within the tradition of K'iche'an literature, of which they are an oral form. O'Brien-Rothe identifies continuities between the songs and the K'iche'an origin myth, the Popol Vuh, while also tracing their composition to the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries by their similarities with the early chaconas that were played on the Spanish guitarra española, which survives in Santiago Atitlán as a five-string guitar.
The pedagogy and practices of folk music and folk dance are firmly separate in Finland. Furthermore, the expertise in these fields focuses heavily on folk music and dance as performing arts rather ...than communal activities. The situation has led to the differentiation and fragmentation of professional and amateur activities. To address this gap in knowledge and practice, the KanTaMus project intends to present a pedagogical model for a joint participatory folk dance and music pedagogy devised through practice-based development work. This article explains the basic premises of the model under development. We first discuss the legacy issues crucial in Finnish folk dance and music and its pedagogy. Secondly, we outline the values, pedagogical principles, and prior development work we see as fundamental to our work. Martin Seligman's PERMA theory serves as an overall canvas for our development work. The basic elements of the theory, i.e., positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment, work as a basis for our model, which emphasises embodied presence, inclusion, and interaction as crucial features of a shared learning situation in dance and music. Finally, we present the pairing process as a specific example of the application of the model.
The article explores the digital innovations that are being used in a folk performance in West Bengal, namely the
Chhau
dance. The COVID-19 pandemic
foregrounded
the relevance of digital space across ...disciplines. Being an expression of the collective experience of the people of the Purulia district,
Chhau
dance is commonly associated with fostering and perpetuating folk and mythical beliefs through its extensive use of masks and dance movements steered by the
Jhumur
songs. While the common urge to archive the traditional dance-drama form in its ‘authentic’ essence precipitates a digital turn within the performance, the digital contact paradoxically reorients the ‘authentic’ identity of this cultural practice. The present study seeks to use the ‘identity–authenticity’ interplay in the context of globalization as the crux of the article. Within this framework, the article analyses how a folk cultural practice like
Chhau
dance, with its recent innovations in masks and performances mandated by the pandemic, problematizes the debate. It further strives to recognize the implications of the digital presence of the performances as well as the performers, which, for many of the traditionalists, might have jeopardized the ritualistic practices that were considered the ‘essence’ of the performance. The research was conducted through ethnographic methods gathered through fieldwork to gain first-hand knowledge of the ground reality.
Ethnic folk dances possess significant cultural value and require documentation and preservation. This article begins by recognizing the distinctive movement characteristics found in ethnic folk ...dances. It then collects skeletal motion data of the human body while executing typical movements in ethnic folk dances using Kinect V2. Two primary features, namely angle and relative distance, were extracted. Deep learning was combined with the attention mechanism to design a three-layer BiLSTM-attention method. Experiments were conducted using the typical movement feature set of ethnic folk dance and the MSRAction3D dataset. It was found that the three-layer BiLSTM method exhibited superior performance when compared to other configurations of BiLSTM layer. Additionally, the results derived from the BiLSTM model surpassed those achieved with RNN or LSTM models. Furthermore, the inclusion of the attention layer led to a noteworthy 0.0234 increase in the ACC value compared to models without it. The processed features demonstrated enhanced performance compared to the raw skeletal motion data. ACC values exceeding 0.95 were achieved for the recognition of typical movement features in various types of ethic folk dances. Notably, the ACC value of the three-layer BiLSTM method for the MSR-Action3D dataset was 0.9767, which was superior to the other methods. These outcomes validate the robustness of the methodology presented in this paper for recognizing typical movement features in folk dance and suggest its potential for practical applications.
DEVELOPMENT OF FOLK DANCE INTERPRETATION TO STUDENTS Marioara SALUP; Elena RAŢĂ
Annals of the "Ștefan cel Mare" University. Physical Education and Sport Section. The Science and Art of Movement (Online),
01/2019, Volume:
5, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
Romanian folk dances and games dance in unity, however they vary in execution and in relation with inspiration and emotions of those dancers. In the development of the folk dances it is observed a ...large amount of rhythms, an extended range of tempos, as many forms of presentation, appearance and expression. Taken together, dances blend elegance with vivacity of the movements, with tenderness of the female dancing, a special note with shouts and shout that accompanies almost continuously beyond the game. The cultural and artistic manifestations of students is an opportunity to achieve preserving and transmission of traditions, habits, songs and dances from one generation to the next and strengthen cultural and spiritual identity of the Romanian people. Variety of the folk material, of the music and folk dance, creates situations that allow complex knowledge of life and soul of a nation. It is therefore our duty of those, who work with students, to familiarize them from very early times of childhood and to develop the passion and love toward music and folk dance.
With the arrival of the informationization era, the inheritance and development of ethnic folk dance in dance teaching faces new challenges and opportunities. This paper discusses effectively ...inheriting and developing ethnic folk dance under informationization. The research methodology includes the Analysis of folk dance movement characteristics, movement capture and feature extraction based on Kinect acquisition technology. The results show that the dancer’s movement data can be accurately recorded by Kinect capture technology, and the error of capture coordinates can be minimized up to 1.115. The study also finds that the dance movement features can be effectively extracted using Gaussian Mixture Model Background Subtraction and Median Filtering preprocessing techniques. In addition, the “Trinity Teaching Assistive Technology” proposed in this study can improve teaching quality. The application of information technology not only promotes the scientific and standardized teaching of folk dance, but also helps improve students’ skills and creativity.
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