Bulgarian/Serbian Dance - Godecki Cacak

From the CD Balkan Without Borders

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• serbia
• balkan
• dance

[2Marino]

you are missing the point-Godecki Cacak is NOT a Serbian dance; it is a kolo/oro from Godec, Bulgaria. Cack the danc e does NOT come from Cacak the city, but is a style of kolo in 10 typically that began in Eastern part of Serbia. Look up the real ethomusicologists like Dr. Olivera Vasic-still alive; Jankovic sisters-Danica & Ljubica who recorded the steps; music; etc. for kolos. Other expert resources also exist. Godecki Cack is Bulgarian-nothing wrong with that;do not misidentify as Serbian.

[bartje11]

@2Marino I am NOT mis-identifying, I am only writing down what it said on the CD. If you don't like that contact the company, or contact the group who performs it, and inform them of their mistake. There is nothing I can do about it, plus I don't even know if you are right. Anybody can say anything on You Tube. To me Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, is all cool!! It's great music, I love it. I hate it when people turn great music into something nationalistic, like it is nobody else's business.

[2Marino]

something lost in the translation-you say Balkan without Borders, yet you identify this specifically as Serbian dance

[bartje11]

@2Marino That's the name of the CD. Balkan without Borders.

[2Marino]

@bartje11 I know that's the name of the CD. I'm talking about identifying Godecki Cacak as a Serbian dance when actually it is a Bulgarian dance from Godec, Bulgaria.

[bartje11]

@2Marino Yes, I understand, I just wrote down what it said on the CD sleeve. The guys who performed it listed it as such. If you can't trust the info on a CD sleeve, who can you trust?

[Lu3Zak]

If the Serbian say so, you can trust.

We here on the Adriatic sea coast are not far away from there -we used to be the same country, but believe me, I still don't distinguish which melody comes from which area ... whole region is rich of folklore, almost each village is different...

greetings from Croatia

[2Marino]

@Sandrininja Sorry, Cacak the dance does not come from Cacak the town. Cacak is a style of kolo danced to a 10 count.There are many types of cacak dance-Niski Cacak; Banjski Cacak; Vranjanski Cacak; Leskovacki Cacak, but Cacak kolo typically played is Banjski Cacak--listen to Savo Jeremic; Carevac, etc. THis is not Serbian for many reasons, but most important is that it comes from Godec which is in Bulgaria--melody and rhythms are Bulgarian.

[Ecoman365]

@2Marino

Yes, this is a Bulgarian dance from the Bulgarian town of Godech in Bulgaria.

My Bulgarian ancestors are from the nearby Bulgarian town of Pirot, which is inside Serbia.

[Ecoman365]

@bartje11

Yes, it is a Bulgarian folk dance.

Godech is a Bulgarian town in Bulgaria.

My Bulgarian ancestors are from Pirot, a Bulgarian town, which is in Serbia --- only a few miles from the Bulgarian border and Godech.

[roadfolks]

3/3: Most of the nowadays čačak dancers are not aware of the powerful heritage of our ancient culture which this type of dance along with our slavic languages have kept for our generation for the ages to help us awake and transform into fully conscious beings. Brothers and sisters, wake up... Respect & Honour, RastiSlav Slobodan, Slovensko.

[roadfolks]

2/3: where the dancers gathered in 2 circles - KOLO - dancing in opposite direction represent the move of human energy centres - CHAKRAs - ČAKRA - the old slavic word where the first part "ČAK" represents the circling movement in 2 opposite directions both to accept and give away the energy and the part "RA" for the clear emanation. One can clearly trace back how old is the origin of ČAČAK word and where it really comes from. ČAČAK is performed in KOLO movement - think about it!

[roadfolks]

1/3: I suggest everybody, especially Slavic people of any modern Slavic nation interesting in ČAČAK or KOLO dances origins or history to get awake and study the manuscripts much older than BIBLE is and that´s world´s oldest texts - SLAVIC-ARYAN VEDAS (Slovansko-Árijské Védy) - you can understand not only what´s the lingvistic and cultural origins of word "Čačak" but also how and why it´s integrated with specific KOLO dance - it is in fact the ancient slavic-aryan ritual dance where the dancers

[manoelcaraballo1]

I'm sorry, this is Greek music, I can tell you... or Albanian. OK Albanian for sure.