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Folk dance of the Armenian Highlands
Kochari
(
Armenian
:
??????
,
romanized
:
K’o?ari
;
Azerbaijani
:
Koc?ri
;
Greek
:
Κ?τσαρι
,
romanized
:
K?tsari
;
Turkish
:
Kocari
) is a
folk dance
originating in the
Armenian Highlands
.
[1]
It is performed today by
Armenians
,
[2]
[3]
[4]
while variants are performed by
Assyrians
,
[5]
Azerbaijanis
,
[6]
[7]
and
Pontic Greeks
.
[8]
It is a form of
circle dance
.
Each region in the
Armenian Highlands
had its own Kochari, with its unique way of both dancing and music.
[9]
Etymology
- In
Armenian
, "Kochari" literally means "knee-come". ???? (gudj or goudj) means "knee" and ??? (ari) means "come".
[10]
[
page needed
]
- In
Azerbaijani Turkish
, "koc" means "to move" used both as a verb and as a noun,
[11]
with the latter used more in the context of nomads' travelling. "Koc?ri" is also both an adjective and a noun, meaning a "nomad" and "nomadic" simultaneously.
[12]
- In
Pontic Greek
, from the
Greek
"κ?τσι" (in Pontic Greek "κοτ?") meaning "heel" (from
Medieval Greek
"κ?ττιον" meaning the same) and "α?ρω" meaning "raise", all together "raising the heel", since the Greeks consider the heel to be the main part of the foot which the dancer uses.
[
citation needed
]
Versions
John Blacking
describes Kochari as follows:
Group dancing, when dancers imitate jumping goats, is known as kochari. Dancers stand abreast, holding each other's hands, The tempo of the dance ranges from moderate to fast. Squatting and butting an imagined opponent are followed by high jumps.
[13]
Armenian
Armenians have been dancing Kochari for over a thousand years.
[14]
The dance is danced by both men and women and is intended to be intimidating. More modern forms of Kochari have added a "tremolo step", which involves shaking the whole body. It spread to the eastern part of Armenia after the
Armenian genocide
. The Armenian Kochari has been included to the
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
of
UNESCO
in 2017.
[15]
Azerbaijani
Today this dancing is played in the Nakhchivan land of which
Sharur
,
Sadarak
,
Kangarli
,
Julfa
and
Shahbuz
regions' folklore collectives and it is performed at weddings.
[16]
Kochari along with tenzere has been included to the list of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding of UNESCO in November 2018 as versions of Yalli dance.
[17]
[7]
Pontic Greek K?tsari
The
Pontic Greeks
and
Armenians
have many vigorous warlike dances such as the Kochari.
[18]
Unlike most Pontic dances, the Kotsari is in an even rhythm (
2
4
), originally danced in a closed circle.
[19]
See also
Gallery
-
Kochari dance in Aznavour Square
-
Kochari dance in Aznavour Square
-
Kochari dance in Aznavour Square
References
- ^
"Kochari"
. Bennet Pilgrimages. 11 April 2014
. Retrieved
11 December
2023
.
- ^
Elia, Anthony J. (2013).
"Kochari (Old Armenian Folk Tune) for Solo Piano"
.
Center for Digital Research and Scholarship
at
Columbia University
.
doi
:
10.7916/D8S75QNP
. Retrieved
6 November
2013
.
- ^
Vvedensky, Boris, ed. (1953).
Great Soviet Encyclopedia
(in Russian). Vol. 23 (Second ed.). Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia. p.
170
.
КОЧАРИ ? армянский народный мужской танец.
- ^
Yuzefovich, Victor (1985).
Aram Khachaturyan
. New York: Sphinx Press. p. 217.
ISBN
9780823686582
.
..and in the sixth scene one of the dances of the gladiators is very reminiscent of Kochari, the Armenian folk dance.
- ^
BetBasoo, Peter Pnuel (30 April 2003).
"Thirty Assyrian Folk Dances"
(PDF)
. Assyrian International News Agency
. Retrieved
6 November
2013
.
- ^
Gottlieb, Robert
(26 July 1998).
"Astaire to Zopy-Zopy"
.
New York Times
. Archived from
the original
on 21 September 2013
. Retrieved
6 November
2013
.
I find it difficult to imagine someone without a predisposition to read about such matters as Azerbaijani folk dance (
One type of yally has various forms known as kochari, uchayag, tello, and galadangalaya; another type is a dance mixed with games called gazy-gazy, zopy-zopy, and chopu-chopu
) browsing profitably through Oxford's many hundreds of pages of such information.
- ^
a
b
"Yalli (Kochari, Tenzere), traditional group dances of Nakhchivan - intangible heritage - Culture Sector - UNESCO"
.
ich.unesco.org
. Retrieved
2018-11-29
.
- ^
"Kotsari"
. Pontian.info. Archived from
the original
on 16 October 2012
. Retrieved
6 November
2013
.
- ^
Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia
Volume 4
(in Armenian). Yerevan: Armenian Encyclopedia Publishing. 1978. p.
476
.
- ^
Cholakean, Hakob (2016).
????????? ??????????????
. Yerevan.
{{
cite book
}}
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link
)
- ^
KOC
- ^
KOC?R?
- ^
Blacking, John (1979).
The Performing Arts: Music and Dance
. Walter de Gruyter. p. 71.
ISBN
9789027978707
.
- ^
Kochari // Music encyclopedic dictionary / Yu.V. Keldysh, M.G. Aranovsky, L.Z. Korabelnikova ? Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1990. ? p. 275.
- ^
"Kochari, traditional group dance"
.
UNESCO
. Retrieved
5 December
2020
.
- ^
"The National Dancings"
. Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic
. Retrieved
6 November
2013
.
- ^
"Intangible Heritage: Seven elements inscribed on the List in Need of Urgent Safeguarding"
.
UNESCO
. Retrieved
2018-11-29
.
- ^
Greece
- Page 67 by Paul Hellander, Kate Armstrong, Michael Clark, Des Hannigan, Victoria Kyriakopoulos, Miriam Raphael, Andrew Ston
- ^
"Kotchari"
.
Pontos World
. 10 November 2019.
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