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FOLK DANCES IN

TURKEY ?

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FOLK DANCES

Horon

Zeybek

Bar dance

Spoon dances

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HORON

Horon, is a typical folk dance of the Black Sea.The traditional folk dance of Trabzon is a very fast played dance.Horon players wears white and black clothes for many years.Men and women link arms and perform together as a couple, Horons are danced to music of the cura zurna, cura davul, tulum, kemençe.

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ZEYBEK

Aegean dance, colorfully dressed male dancers, called "Efe", symbolize courage and heroism.

The Zeybek folk dance of Turkey differs in style depending upon the region.

Zeybeks are danced to music of the clarinet and drum .

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SPOON DANCES

The Spoon Dance is performed from Konya to Silifke and consists of gaily dressed male and female dancer.

In dances with the spoons , which are wooden spoons , the dancers don't hold on to each other, they dance freely and apart from each other.

The dancers hold their spoons in their each hand ,which do change from region to region.

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BAR DANCE

The bar dances are played in the East Anatolia and especially in Erzurum, Erzincan and Agri regions.

Bar" dances are played side by side, shoulder to shoulder and hand in hand.

The ideal number of dancers is 9 in the bars.

The instruments of our bar dances are davul and zurna.

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