Turkish Dance - 6-min extract edit for class

Six-minute video from a Turkish Dance Group at the KC Ethnic Festival (Aug 2010) edited for Nicole English's World-Dance Class to show one of the folkloric styles she goes over.

We had both gotten to the festival a bit later than we wanted, especially since we originally really wanted to see the Turkish troup (we like them) and were delighted when there was still just enough to see.

I really enjoy the direct-to-the-earth energy of what I like to call "root" dances. Even though I also like ballet and so forth, all of those gain their foundational energy from the folk, so to speak.

One of the really attractive features of folkloric traditions is the community identification and unity it brings. There is such a casual merger of simply conversation and dancing that it belies just how well the dance is done, something you can test with the three stills I shot which I placed at the very end to see how tight the group is (all their feet are in the air in each, and all on the same support and raised legs).

Nicole shot video (Sony FX-1000) and I did stills (Nikon). I did the video edit in Vegas Pro 9.

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Education

Tags:

• Turkey
• turkish
• dance
• hora
• circle
• folkloric
• ethnic
• Nicole
• English