Circle dance, or chain dance, is a style of dance done in a circle or semicircle to musical accompaniment, such as rhythm instruments and singing. Circle dancing is probably the oldest known dance formation and was part of community life from when people first started to dance.
Artvin Province is a province in Turkey, on the Black Sea coast in the northeastern corner of the country, on the border with Georgia.
Music of Thrace is the music of Thrace, a region in Southeastern Europe spread over southern Bulgaria, northeastern Greece, and European Turkey.
Turkish folk music combines the distinct cultural values of all civilisations that have lived in Turkey and its former territories in Europe and Asia. Its unique structure includes regional differences under one umbrella. It was the most popular music genre in the Ottoman Empire era. After the foundation of the Turkish Republic, Atatürk asked to make a wide-scale classification and archiving of samples of Turkish folk music from around the country, which was launched in 1924 and continued until 1953 to collect around 10,000 folk songs. In the 1960s, Turkish folk music met with radio and folk musicians like Aşık Veysel, Neşet Ertaş, Bedia Akartürk became the most popular names of the Turkish folk music. In the 1970s and 1980s, with the rising popularity of arabesque and Turkish light western, Turkish folk music has lost some ground, but singers like Belkıs Akkale, İzzet Altınmeşe, Selda Bağcan, Güler Duman and Arif Sağ made successful hit songs and became important representatives of the genre.
Turkish folk dances are the folk dances of Turkey. Facing three seas, straddling important trade routes, Turkey has a complex, sophisticated culture, reflected in the variety of its dances. The dominant dance forms are types of line dance. There are many different types of folk dances performed in various ways in Turkey, and these reflect the cultural structure of each region. The Bar in Erzurum province, the Halay in the East and Southeast, the Hora in Thrace, the Horon in the Black Sea, Spoon dances in and around Konya and Lezginka in Kars and Ardahan are the best known examples of these.
Horon (Greek) or khoron, refers to a group of a circle folk dances from the Black Sea region of Turkey.
Halay is a regional category of folk dance styles in central and southeastern Anatolia. The music accompanying the dance is the zurna and davul. It begins slow and speeds up.
The Armenian dance heritage has been considered one of the oldest and most varied in its respective region. From the fifth to the third millennia B.C., in the higher regions of Armenia, the land of Ararat, there are rock paintings of scenes of country dancing. These dances were probably accompanied by certain kinds of songs or musical instruments. In the fifth century Moses of Khoren himself had heard of how the old descendants of Aram make mention of these things in the ballads for the lyre and their songs and dances.
The traditional dances of the Middle East span a large variety of folk traditions throughout North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia.
Folklore occupies a very important place with the Turkish Cypriots, who due to their geographic location, have benefited from a variety of cultures. Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Franks, Venetians and Turks have all influenced the cultural heritage of this Mediterranean island. Folklore is extremely important in the Turkish Cypriot culture as it provides unity and identity.
"Oro"(Serbian Cyrillic: Оро) is a Balkan Ballad and was the Serbian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 being held in Belgrade, Serbia. The song was sung by Jelena Tomašević and was supported on stage by flautist Bora Dugić. That year Serbia was directly qualified in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest thanks to previous year's victory by Marija Šerifović. It finished 6th out of 25 contestants with 160 points.
"Halay" was the Turkish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984, performed in Turkish by Beş Yıl Önce, On Yıl Sonra.
Turkey took part in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984. The country was represented by a music group named Beş Yıl Önce, On Yıl Sonra with the song “Halay” written by Ülkü Aker and composed by Selçuk Başar. The entry was chosen by a professional jury.
Burkut is the eagle god in Turkic mythology.
Sivas bar, ,, is a form of the Anatolian folk dance Kaşık Havası or (halay)(yallı). The meter is 2/4. The original form of the folk dance Kaşık Havası was popular in Sivas, Malatya and Kemaliye.There are similar folkloric tunes known as Konyalım Yaman Çalar Şak Şak Kaşığı .
Temuraga ,Tamour agha, is a form of the Anatolian folk dance bar (dance) or Kasik Havasi.Temuraga is a folk dance spread all over Eastern Anatolia Region. There are similar folkloric dance tunes known as Çek deveci develeri engine in the Burdur.
Elazığ dik halay (Karaçor)(Karachor) is a Turkish kochari folk dance. It is a form of circle dance.There are related folk songs, known as Shoror . There are modern popular versions of this song, with Turkish lyrics, known as İşte Hendek İşte Deve in Turkey. One of these is sung by Barış Manço. There are modern popular versions of this song, with Assyrian lyrics, known as Kochari in Russia, one sung by Loudmila Khoshaba. Kochari is a song from her Album of the year 2008, called "Nazdarta". There are modern popular versions of this song, with Greek lyrics, known as Agkires in Greece, one sung by Katy Garbi. Agkires is a song from her Album of the year 1999, called "Doro Theou". This album was composed in Greek by Savvas Angin. The Greek lyrics were written by Eleni Gianatsoulia.
Akdağmadeni halay is a Turkish folk dance .Akdağmadeni halay is a form of the Turkish folk dance halay. Danced by the Greeks of Anatolia- Pontians and others.
