Showpieces of Many Cultures

CONTENTS

This teaching resource contains a video of each dance (here is an example), recorded music to dance to (here is an example), and a pdf book giving the dance instructions, song words, useful notes, and much fascinating information (here is a sample page).

THE DANCES:

Alunelul (Romania)

Les Batons (Auvergne, France)

La Boulangère (Paris, France)

Les Ceintures (south-west France)

Chau Pi Chong Ten Zen (Taiwan)

Dalmatian Kolo Suite (New Zealand)

Dandiya Raas (India)

Dorset Four-Hand Reel (England)

Hasaposerviko (Greece)

Jai Ho (Bollywood style, India)

Morris Dancing (England)

– Cotswold-style Entry

– Rorke’s Drift (Cotswolds)

– Jenny Lind (Cotswolds)

Maypole Dancing (England)

– Entry

– The Barber’s Pole

– The Closed Plait

– The Spider’s Web

Mayim Mayim (Israel)

Oxdance (Sweden)

La Raspa (Mexico)

Samokovsko Horo (Bulgaria)

Sofa Hunter’s Dance (Guinea, West Africa)

Tinikling (Philippines)

Wandering Drummer (Scottish Country Dance)

• These dances make particularly good showpieces for their cultures, but could be enjoyed purely for the participants’ fun.

• Of special note, the book of this Album has a unique four-page study of the Auckland Dalmatians’ Kolo Dancers and their Suite, including its development and its social context.

• A small historical book written to accompany this collection integrates the dances and their elements into the social and developmental story. The whole offers a lively textbook for Dance Studies or a Rough Guide for exploration by individual enthusiastic youngsters.