Zorya Ukrainian Dancers - Transcarpathian

Dance from the westernmost region of Ukraine performed at the 2001 Texas Folklife Festival.

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• Zorya
• Dance
• Ukraine
• Texas

[32middlelinebacker]

Hutsul!! To Zakarpatia music :S

[kaiserdc]

Hutsul costumes yes. But the music and moves are all authentic. This group performs at festivals where they are only able to do 1 or 2 costumes, so they don't always match the dance.

[kaiserdc]

Maybe it would help if you actually knew what you are talking about. The costumes are indeed Hutsul (not all groups can afford 50 different costumes). The dance, however, is clearly Transcarpathian and was choreographed by one of Canada's foremost experts on Ukrainian dance. 

[Ihauntu1]

the region is boiko for the hutsul slyle , this region is classified into the transcarpathian area ,the rakivchanka is correct, the transcarpatian typical dance stye like berezianka,tropitianka, dubotanets, is more typical of the Transcarpathian region wich has much different costumes these are definatly hutsul costumes they have the orange and the keptars . other trans costume have allot of blue in them/or red you wont see much orange in other regions except the hutsul area .

[32middlelinebacker]

maybe to the carpathian mountains, which they are! but hutsul is lots of steps that are fast and shuffley almost like vibrations. They do this to keep warm etc etc because the Hutsuls lived highest on the mountainsides than any others. Transcarpathian ones are very extended with high legs, big jumps, slapping rythm combos and very bouncey.

[MercifulMe]

@ukilady14 THe music is a midi Hutsul though... and the dancing looks like Hutsul from my end. Crazy Hutsul, but Hutsul.

[snowboarderdude]

agreed, it Hutsul.

[kaceyann23]

this is hutsal

[ukilady14]

This is definatley not buko because the girls' skirts consist of 2 pannels. It does look like a hutsul costume, but dont forget that the costumes from the transcarpathian region can vary through out the region. In the higher regions of zakarpattia, the costumes can closely resemble that of a hutsul costume. Therfore I can believe that this is a transcarpathian dance, but it's kind of tricky at first glance.

[Yuliana13]

its a rakivchanka