Whenever someone visits to Turkey as a tourist or traveler, he/she most probably sees people dancing either on the street in good weather or in suitable close areas. Those people dance at weddings, engagement ceremonies, when sending a young man to perform his military service, after going to or after come back from the high plateaus. Each dance figure has its own story. Folk Dances are come from the daily life of people, natural events or matters of that society. These dances reflect the characteristics of those regions. Folk dances describe life, feeling or event in way of figures. These figures describe relationship between man and nature or they reflect a fight of two men for a beautiful lady, and sometimes they reflect the hunt of an eagle.
Folk dances’ figures and characteristics are changed according to region. In Black Sea region which is close to Caucasian, dances are performed accompanied by upbeat music. Most of the figures describe preparation for war, organization of army, fighting against enemy and celebration of victory. In Southeastern Anatolia region, those figures reflect agricultural life of people, harvest crop or they reflect the henna night of a bride. In Southern Anatolia, these folk dance figures express the daily life task of women such as baking, milking, making buttermilk or spinning yarn. In Aegean region, folk dance figures are performed generally accompanied by the slow music. The folk dance figures in Northwestern Anatolia called Thrace which is part of Balcanian, shows more bouncy and quickstep characteristics.
Each region has its own popular folk dance figure which is known all over the country. These figures are called differently depending on where they are performed and the cultural structure of that region. For example; “Bar” in Eastern Anatolia, “Halay” in both Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia, “Hora” in Thrace, “Horon” in Black Sea region and “Zeybek” in Aegean region are the best known types of folk dance.
Folk dances reflected the real life and events in history but natural environment of them were changed in time. Nowadays they are perceived as part of art and folk dances are performed in contests and festivals.
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