Vietnamese Folk Dances Video
Folk dance is one of the most popular dance originated from people and was developed. Folk dance reflected thought, affection of people and encouraged the utterly dedicating to work, patriotism, which were foundation and typical character of the nation. Folk dance contains two genres: life dance and performance dance
Life dance
Life dance attaching to daily life of people with so simple dance movements that easy to perform, having fascination and bringing about joy of living... had found favour with people at all levels. It used to be widely performed at grass cover, front house courtyard, edge of forest or wherever.
Mua xoe vong of Thai ethnic group is one of typical life dance and played an essential role in their life.
Background music for life folk dance is usually a folk song or a melody accompanied on instruments like drum, bronze horn, and traditional horn...
Performance dance
Along with life dance, performance dance is a genre of folk dance that occupied an important position in dance heritage. Performance dance inherited fine movements of life dance, which were developed and reached skillful level. Some typical performance works:
Hat dance – Thai ethnic group: This is dance of beautiful Thai girls dressing in Thai clothes (orange dresses with butterfly-shape buttons).
Kata dance – Kata ethnic group,
Bamboo pole dance – Muong ethnic group,
Then dance – Tay ethnic group,
Cham rong dance – Cham ethnic group,
Drum dance, fan dance – Viet ethnic group,
Source: “Mua tin nguong dan gian Vietnam” – Le Ngoc Canh, Social science publisher 1998)
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