About Folk Dance and Water Dance

What is folk dance

The term folk dance is translated from English, folk dance, which means "dance with rural flavor", the meaning of which is that under the influence of historical background, geography, climate, culture, customs, life and other factors, the dance has evolved over a long period of time, and has national characteristics, local characteristics, and is loved by the local people, and has been blended into their lives.

The dance of the local people, also known as folk dance in our country.

The formation of Tu Feng Dance by the terrain, climate, living habits, historical background has a great impact, for example, in India, Hawaii and other regions of the dance, its dance characteristics are mostly swinging the body or twisting the wrists, very few jumping movements, because of these areas, the climate is hot and is not suitable for intense dance, and the frigid regions of the dance, are all running and jumping, such as large amount of dance, which are affected by the climate. The influence of the climate; and Europe and the United States pay more attention to the movement of the feet, the Orient focuses on facial expressions and upper body movements, which is the influence of different people; the Philippines, due to a long period of time under the rule of Spain, the dance style by the Spanish influence is very much, which is affected by the historical background of the influence of the.

The scope of folk dance is very wide, the United States and Japan folk dancers used to be divided into a broad and narrow sense of the two types of folk dance, and the narrow sense of the folk dance can be divided into the following four categories:

(1) Country Dance (Country Dance): with local traditional characteristics of the dance, such as religious dances, ceremonial dances, as well as some of the dance of the celebration.

(2) National Dance: popular in the territory of a country, and for its exclusive dance, such as the Italian bell drum dance, Mexican hat dance.

(3) International Dance (International Dance): popular in the international community has a special representative of the dance, such as waltz, poker and so on.

(4) Special Dance (Character Dance): with special musical instruments, costumes and props, used to perform the dance, such as the Hawaiian hula.

There are three other types of folk dances in the broader sense:

(1) Quasi-folk dances: Rhythmic activities with a little bit of dance, such as dance games, singing and so on.

(2) International folk dance: After the dance steps and dance methods have been widely spread, they have lost their national exclusivity and become international dances, such as the International Standard Dance, etc.

(3) International folk dance: After the dance steps and dance methods have been widely spread, they have lost their national exclusivity and become international dances, such as the International Standard Dance, etc.

(3) Early social dances: the court dances of Western Europe, social dances and social dances of the settlement era in the United States, after being widely spread, have become the format of folk dances, and the relationship between the dance method and the time of the dance is more strict.

--This article is taken from the dance book of the 20th Dobong Dance Training Camp--

Water Dance

Water Dance, which was originally meant to be a prayer for rain, is now usually arranged as the first dance in order to achieve a lively atmosphere at the Gala. The original name of the dance, MAYIM MAYIM, means "water" in Israel.

Water Dance Mayim (Israel)

Preparatory formation: single circle, facing the center of the circle, all holding hands regardless of partners.

Dance method:

Number of beats

16 (1) The right foot crosses to the left and makes four side progresses (vine step), and on the fourth beat, the movement is strengthened into a small jump step.

4 (2) The right foot takes three steps toward the center of the circle, holding the hand slowly up; on the fourth beat the left foot steps beside the right foot.

4 (3) Left foot back three steps, hold hands and slowly restore; fourth beat right foot next to left foot.

8 (4) Repeat (2) (3).

4 (5) Run three steps to the left with the right foot, jump with the right foot on the fourth beat, and at the same time point the left foot to the left side of the ground, still holding hands, and turn to face the center of the circle.

2 (6) The right foot jumps in place, the left toe points to the ground in front of the right diagonal. Right foot jump again, left toe left side point to the ground.

6 (7) Repeat (6) three times.

2 (8) Take back the left foot and hop on the same spot, right toe left diagonally in front of the ground, and clap your hands in front of your chest. The left foot jumps again, the right toe points to the ground on the right side, and at the same time both hands open sideways.

6 (9) Repeat (8) three times.