Multicultural Folk Dances

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Multicultural Folk Dances
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Hora (Israel)

• Hora is the unofficial king of Israeli folk
  dances
• Dancers form a circle - shows unity
• Happy dance music is fast, bouncy tempo
• Easy to learn
• Participation dance

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Hora

• Space
• Dancers form a circle
• Medium level
• Dancers hold hands
• Time
• Fast, bouncy tempo
• Music louder dynamics brass instruments
  (trumpets)
• Force
• Fast, bouncy tempo more energy needed

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Hukilau Hula Dance

• Hawaii
• Use of non-verbal movements (mime) to tell the
  story (narrative dance) of the song being sung
• Performed at parties and celebrations

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Hula

• Space
• Dancers in lines
• Moved from side to side
• Medium level
• Time
• music - ukuleles and Hawaiian guitars
• Medium smooth tempo
• Force
• Smooth movements (arms hips)
• flowing

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Virginia Reel - USA

• Dance performed by all members of society from
  the rich to the poor
• Contra dance - couples dance in two facing lines
• Participation dance

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Virginia Reel - USA

• Space
• Medium level
• Couples dance in facing lines
• Time
• Lively music
• Fiddles and callers (people who call out the
  dance steps)
• Force
• step is a light walk on the toes or balls of the
  feet
• Fast tempo more energy

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Highlife (Ghana)

• African dance
• Men and women participate
• Men and women wore dressy clothes
• Locomotor and non-locomotor movements
• Easy to learn participation dance

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Highlife (Ghana)

• Space
• Medium and low levels used
• Danced side to side in line and front to back in
  a line
• Time
• Music drums
• Some syncopation used (against the beat)
• Force
• Sharp movements and some smoother movements used

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El Jarabe Tapatio (Mexico)

• Couple dance
• Difficult dance steps
• Ladies wore dresses and used them as part of the
  dance colorful ribbons on the bottom that
  looked like ribbons twirling during the dance
• Men wore cowboy outfits (different looking from
  our cowboy outfits more dressy)
• Men and women wore boots to help support ankle
  and also used the heels as part of the dance

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El Jarabe Tapatio (Mexico)

• Space
• Couple dance nonlocomotor and locomotor
  movements
• Medium level
• Time
• Music Marachi music (trumpets guitars)
• Fast tempo
• Force
• Sharp movements (feet) and flowing movements
  (womans dress)

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The Whirling Dance (Shakers)

• Religious ceremonial dance
• Danced in concentric circles
• Outer ring symbolized their defense against the
  evils of the outside world
• Inner ring symbolized their protected spiritual
  life
• Heavy, sharp movements

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The Waltz

• Originated in Europe
• Couple dance men and women danced close
  together- this caused a scandal b/c dances were
  usually performed by men and women dancing in
  different lines (like the Virginia Reel)
• Easy to learn b/c there are only 3 steps

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Charleston

• High energy social dance
• Originated in the US during the roaring 20s
• Lost its popularity after the stock market crash
  b/c people were no longer interested in a happy
  dance (Great Depression Era)

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Lindy Hop

• High energy dance originated in the US after
  Charles Lindbergh competed the first
  transatlantic flight
• Eventually developed into the Jitterbug and then
  swing dance

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Salsa

• Combination of 2 different cultures
• Upper body is similar to Spanish dances
• Lower body similar to African dance

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African Dance

• Bent forward posture (closer to ground)
• Flat feet
• Move hips
• Drums are primary instrument
• Ceremonial

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Native American Dance

• Ceremonial
• Most dances performed in a circle
• Drums are primary instrument

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Similarities between African dance and Native
American dance

• Use of percussion (drums) (only have natural
  resources from their area to make their
  instruments)
• Ceremonial dance
• Dance low to ground
• Dancing in circles