Folk & Traditional

Wo Liebe hätte sein sollen.Dieses Buch ist für alle,die in ihrer Kindheit mehr Last als Liebe kannten.Für jene, die gelernt haben, leise zu sein,stark zu wirken oder sich kleinzumachen -um das auszuhalten,was eigentlich nie auszuhalten war.Es erzählt von Kindheitswunden,von zerbrochenen Beziehungenund vom langen Weg zurück zu sich selbst.Diese Texte sind kein Rezept für Heilung.Sie sind eine Einladung, hinzusehen,zu fühlen, was lange keinen Raum hatte -und zu erkennen,dass du nicht allein bist.

Claude Hofers Publikation ist die erste dieser Art, die beide international bekannte Tanzarten - den japanischen Butoh und den zeitgenössischen Tanz - erforscht und dokumentiert. Im Laufe von zehn Jahren hat der Schweizer Fotograf Länder rund um den Globus bereist und dabei über einhundert Künstler:innen aus beiden Tanzgenres getroffen, die größtenteils eigens für seine Kamera performten. Im Mittelpunkt seiner intensiven Schwarz-Weiß-Fotos stehen unmissverständlich dieMenschen selbst. Mit einem beeindruckenden Gespür für den richtigen Augenblick hat Hofer in seinen stark emotionalen Aufnahmen jene Momente der Tanzenden festgehalten, in denen eine einzigartige und tiefe Verbindung zwischen Körper und Geist zu Tage tritt.

Examines the economic and spatial importance of performance arts in West Africa through a close analysis of the masquerade culture of Calabar, the capital city of Nigeria's Cross River State.Driving into urban Calabar, one is struck by two imposing, monumental rectangular columns, operating not unlike ancient triumphal arches, framing the entrance into Nigeria's capital city of the Cross River State. Relief carvings of Calabar's renowned masking characters adorn the monument. The icons, dramatically captured in choreographic poses, freezing the maskers in time, enshrine masquerade as the city's heritage and past identity. Far from being merely "traditional" and relegated to an earlier time, the Calabar-based masquerades explored in this book demonstrate a contemporary and global context indicative of the changing patterns of city life.While the topic of cultural change is not necessarily new to African art history and cultural studies, few scholars or writers have attempted to understand why African arts so readily change. This book, the first full-length monograph addressing contemporary art in Calabar, explains the fluidity and thriving nature of masquerade by analyzing the ways in which masking is steeped in economic transaction and how street performances have become more public and spatially calculated. By unraveling the urban layers of masquerade arts and their performances, this book shows how so-called traditional culture gains new roles or currencies within a contemporary, city-based context.

Descendants of the Vikings, children of Norse legend born beneath the grey twilight of the midnight sun, the people of Norway live in a country of fjords, mountains, lakes and forests, their background here wild and terrible, there still and brooding. Their folk songs and dances are as varied as the scenery of their native land, and as attractive as their colourful national costumes.In this book four dances are fully described with their music and dance steps; and four fine colour plates portray some of the traditional costumes.Klara Semb was the recognised authority on the dances of her country, and was largely instrumental in their revival, for she spent forty years travelling Norway collecting and teaching dances.

'There are other dances in Aragon,' says the author of this delightful book, 'but when the province is mentioned every Spaniard I have ever met preens himself and remarks, "Ah! La Jota".' There are indeed other dances. Mrs. Armstrong, a widely known authority on Spanish Dances and author of 'Dances of Spain: vol. I', in this series, takes us through the great province of Aragon, from the Pyrenees to the borders of Valencia, to busy Catalonia, and to Valencia itself, where Catalan and southern influences meet, Catalan delicacy softening the rigid grace of Andalusia. Everywhere she shows us the dances of the people: the famed Jota, the Sardana - of which, as she says, much has been written, and a great deal of it nonsense - and less-known dances such as the Dance of the Gypsies from the Valles, to which, oddly enough, no gypsies are admitted.To this most absorbing of travellers' tales has been added a more detailed step-by-step description of four selected dances, with the original music specially arranged for this series. In addition, four beautiful colour plates show traditional Spanish regional costumes.

The dances of the French Pyrenees express a multitude of influences in their colourful variety. At the eastern end the French side is influenced by Spanish Catalonia, at the western end the famous Basque dances show some slight influence from their Spanish-Basque brothers; even in the centre, under the high and inaccessible peaks, dances are coloured by influence from across the frontier, so that everywhere traditions are Pyrenean rather than regional or local.Violet Alford, author of this book and editor of the series, knew the Pyrenees as few other foreigners do. She was a dancer herself, both at home and with the people whose countries she visited. Readers of her books The Traditional Dance (with Rodney Gallop) and Pyrenean Festivals, and of the many articles she wrote on folk-lore and folk dance, will recognise her lively and authoritative style. Miss Alford here selected five typical dances for fuller description, with music and step-notation. Four plates in colour show the correct costumes.

"Congress is dancing" said the Prince de Ligne of the Congress of Vienna, and in 1814, when he made his famous quip, dancing was already part and parcel of Austrian life. After 1918, when Austria as a nation found herself again, the old peasant dances were revived, and the gay and lively rhythms of the Schuhplattler and the Steyrischer were heard once more.Mrs. Breuer, who spent her life collecting and teaching the songs and dances of Austria, gives here a vivid description of the old country customs and festivities, and the dances that go with them. For those who would learn these dances for themselves, a more detailed description, including step notation and music, is given for four types of dance - the Steyrischer, the Schuhplattler, the Shoemaker's Polka and the dance of the herd-girls of Salzburg.Four colour plates show the traditional peasant costumes worn in these dances, and there is also a list of festivals at which Austrian folk dancing may be seen at its best.

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On the Eve of May Day, one of the great Celtic feasts, the people, moving in lines, were wont to urge their cattle between two fires that they might be purified and preserved during the coming year. And since nothing dies harder than tradition, it may well be that, long after their significance was forgotten, these ancient ceremonial line-movements developed into the forms of the 'Rinnce Fada' and 'The Hey' still danced in the Ireland of today.For over three centuries after the Tudor wars everything Irish was forbidden, and dancing, like all the other peaceful arts, suffered a decline. Some dances were irretrievably lost, but, largely by the efforts of the Gaelic League, others have been recovered and revived. Step notations and music for several of these, including the famous 'Rinnce Fada', are given here with four coloured plates of costumes.Peadar O'Rafferty, founder of Lambeg Irish Folk Dance Society and for many years instructor to Malone Training School, was a pioneer of the folk-dancing revival in Belfast. His son, Gerald, has frequently acted as adjudicator at Irish musical festivals.

After five hundred years, the influence of the Moors can still be seen in Southern Spain. In the arts and crafts, in many Spanish faces the imprint of the dark invader still shows. And above all in the dance: the famous back-bends, the delicate play of finger and hand, the sudden petrified poses are more Eastern than European.This book deals with the dances of Southern, Central and North-West Spain. Mrs. Lucile Armstrong spent a large part of her life travelling the Iberian peninsula, studying the arts of the people and noting down the traditional dances. Herself a folk-dancer of great experience, she wrote in this book, in addition to a general introduction to these regions and their customs, a more detailed description of four Spanish dances: two simple, one of medium difficulty and one, the Seguidillas Sevillanas of Andalusia, which, as she said, is more subtle and needs special study. Step notations and music illustrate these dances, and in addition four plates by the author show in colour the beauty of Spanish peasant costume.

A land of wine and song, of love and laughter - the magic of Italy is reflected in the wealth of her dances, which range from the stylised Chain dances of Sardinia and the Sword dances of Piedmont to the courting mimes that belong mainly to the central and southern provinces. Among them are the delightful Monferrina with its teasings and coaxings, the lively Saltarello of central Italy, and above all the Tarantella of the south, with its exciting rhythms, miming attack and defence and final love conquest. In contrast to these warm-blooded folk dances there are the solemn processional dances of Calabria and Sicily, some of them forming part of actual religious ceremonies.Bianca Galanti, former lecturer on the history of Italian popular traditions at the University of Rome, also included in this book some notes on music and costume, and selected four dances for more detailed description, together with step-notation and music. Examples of Italy's rich heritage of traditional costume are illustrated by four plates in full colour.

Poland, birthplace of Polonaise and Mazurka, possesses a passionate love of music and dancing which has survived the ravages of many foreign invaders, from Genghis Khan and his dreaded Tartars down to more recent oppressions.There are many and varied steps to be found in the national dances of Poland, and this book contains the notations and music of four original and exciting dances - including the 'Goralski', a brigand dance from the mountains, and the famous Krakowiak - which are also depicted in striking colour plates showing authentic costumes.Mme. Wolska had had long experience of the dances of Poland, for after being connected with the Polish Ballet Company directed by Nijinsky's sister, she joined the well-known Anglo-Polish Ballet Company as both dancer and ballet mistress.

From medieval times, despite the frowns of the Church, the Hungarian peasant has been an irrepressible, natural dancer. Country weddings, pig-killings, funerals, recruiting drives, all had their traditional dances, and there was even a special dance for levelling the earthen floor of a newly built barn. Today, as this book tells, the Hungarian love of dancing is still as strong as ever.Dr. George Buday, until recently Director of the Hungarian Cultural Institute in London, has a wide reputation as an artist and as a student of Eastern Europe's folk lore and customs. His introductory essay conveys vividly his love of the traditional music and dances of his native land. He has himself illustrated his book with four plates in full colour showing typical peasant costumes; and simple step notations, side by side with the music, explain in detail four selected dances. Basic steps for the popular Csardas are also given.

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"Olyan érzékeny és szemléletes. Imádom a formákat és a képeket, amiket el¿idéz bennem, amikor olvasom!"Alejandra Mantiñan - a 'Személyes fejl¿désed útjának jelentése a tangóban' cím¿ fejezetr¿l."A legtöbb nyelvre lefordított tangóról szóló könyv a világon." Egyesek számára a tangó csak egy társasági tevékenység. Nincs mélyebb jelentése, ¿k nem járnak be semmilyen utat. Néhány lépés, azok kombinációja, mindez újrahasznosítható. Ez a könyv nem nekik szól. Ez a könyv azoknak szól, akik mélyebb jelentést, kapcsolatot és tudatosságot keresnek a tangóban, egyszóval: Tangofulnesst. Azoknak szól, akik tudják, hogy milyen érzés átölelve lenni, biztonságban, azoknak, akik átéltek egy pár 'életem-legjobb-tandája' pillanatot, és szeretnének még többet bel¿lük. És mindenek felett azoknak szól, akik szeretnék megismerni a jelent¿ségteljes kapcsolatok gyökereit a tangóban, nem intellektuális értelemben, hanem a gyakorlatban, hogy még többször, és még intenzívebben átélhessék a tangofulness érzését. Dimitris Bronowski 2009-ben tette meg az els¿ tangó lépéseit. 2019-ben otthagyta a vezérigazgatói pozícióját Európa legnagyobb, marketing szakért¿knek szóló tréning vállalatánál, hogy hivatásszer¿en is a szenvedélyével, a tangóval foglalkozhasson. ¿ a Tango Tips by the Maestros (Mesterek Tangó Tippjei) cím¿ könyv kiadója, tangó blogot ír és tangós elvonulásokat szervez. Arról álmodik, hogy egymillió embernek segítsen jelentéssel teli tangó pillanatokat átélni.

To any lover of the dance the exotic rhythms of the Portuguese folk dances must have an irresistible fascination. Mrs. Armstrong, who has lived in Portugal for many years and made a special study of Portuguese dancing, gives in this book a delightful description of the traditional dances, with their intricate figures, sudden leaps and turns in the air, and above all their endless variety and improvisation. Travelling to remote villages, often under conditions of some difficulty, she has gathered her material from sources where traditions are still fresh and living. From the Vira in the north to the complicated waltz figures of the Tagus fisherfolk, she has seen them all, and her enthusiasm stands out on every page.Not only has the author seen and described the dances, but she has also taken detailed notes. This book contains music and step notation for four of the best and most typical of the country dances of Portugal, and four beautiful colour-plates show the costumes appropriate to each.

A stunning celebration of the rich culture and fascinating history of Ireland featuring ten Irish illustrators. Discover everything that makes the Irish isle so special - from its famous landmarks to its myths and legends, from its epic battles to its incredible music ... and everything in between. - With a foreword from much-loved Irish comedian Dara Ó Briain - Beautiful, full-colour illustration makes this the perfect gift - Showcases the talent of ten of Ireland’s top illustrators. Sections include: - The Island of Ireland – illustrated by Linda Fahrlin - Early Ireland – illustrated by Diarmuid Ó Catháin - Warring Ireland – illustrated by Alan Dunne - Haunted Ireland – illustrated by Lydia Hughes - Magical Ireland – illustrated by Brian Fitzgerald - The Living Landscape – illustrated by Ashling Lindsay - The Human Landscape – illustrated by Graham Corcoran - Underground Ireland – illustrated by Jennifer Farley - The Culture of Ireland – illustrated by Conor Nolan - Fun Things to Do in Ireland – illustrated by Donough O'Malley