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Dance 382
South Slavic: Croatian and Serbian Folk Dance
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Undergraduate 4
12/13/2011

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Dance Traditions
Definition
Croatia and Serbia
Term
Geography, terrain and climate
Definition
Croatia: Fertile valley and plains, some mountains, some coastline
Serbia: Some fertile valley, some mountains
Term
Language and alphabet
Definition
Croatia: Croatian dialect of serbo-croatian. they use the Roman alphabet
Use of diacritics over Roman letters
Serbia: Serbian dialect of Serbo-croatian. Cyrillic alphabet
Term
History
Definition
Serbs were subjects of Ottomon/turkish empire
Croatians were subjects of the Austro-hungarian empire
Term
Economy
Definition
NR: Croatia: Sava river plain very fertile
Serbia: Danube River (dunaj)
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Customs and mores
Definition
Croatia: dances in circle-more democratic
Serbia: "led" by one individual-more hierarchical

Kolovodja-kolo leader
Kec-End man
Term
Religions
Definition
Croats: roman catholic
Serbs: eastern Orthodox
Term
Dress/ Costume
Definition
varied by region
many garments are lavishly embroidered
footwear: Opanke/Opanci
Term
Festivals
Definition
Shroveride
easter
st johns day (mid summer)
xmas
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Neighboring people
Definition
Croatia: Hungary (north) Serbia (east) Bosnia (south) adriatic sea (west)

Serbia: Hungary (north); romania (north-east); Bulgaria (east); Macedonia (south); Albania (south-west); Montenegro (west) Bosnia (west) and croatia (west)
Term
Music and Rhythms
Definition
String bands predominate esp in croatia (prim, brac, bugaria, bass)
-frula and accordion in serbia
-bagpipes (goat skin) used in some villages
-vocal chanting, and percussive sounds of dancers feet
Term
musical phrasing
Definition
dance phrase and musical phrase often do not match
music is often in 4 meas. but may be in 5 meas.
Term
Rhythms
Definition
regular rhythms of 2/4 and 4/4
irregular rhytms are found in easter serbia and in south serbia
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Contexts
Definition
At festival and other celebration such as weddings
-dancers always gathered around the musician
-men frequently get first choice of the preferred instruments
Term
Venues
Definition
Outdoors: grass; Cobblestones
-near dwelling; Courtyard; porch
-indoors: Kitchen or large room
Term
Types
Definition
Line (non-partner)
-Kolo-broken circle
-drmes-closed circle and couple (croatia)

Couple Dances:
-some couple dances in Croatia with partner contact
-few couple dances in serbia; little partner contact

-trio dances found in croatia near Hungarian border
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Dance formations and Positions
Definition
Kolo (broken circle) predominates
Line (short) in some localities
hand holds (V & W) predominate; same back and front baskets on Croatia; some belt holds in eastern Serbia.
Term
Complexity
Definition
figures: not very comples
arms: usually static positions esp of hands; occasional movements of arms.
Legs: mostly movement from knee down; little lifting of leg
Footwork: moderately to very complex
Term
Difficulty
Definition
many slow dances
some fast, vigorous dances
Term
Stylistic Idiosyncrasies
Definition
Croat: More flat footed-less than 30% of time on balls of feet
Serb: more on balls of feet-over 50% on balls of their feet not putting heels down on the floor
Term
savila se bela loza
Definition
Serb
song "a grapevine interwined upon itself"
Term
Setnja Kolo
Definition
serb
strolling dance
Term
seljancica Kolo
Definition
Serb
Students dance
Term
Uzicka Carlama Kolo
Definition
serb
from village of uzice
Term
Orijent Kolo
Definition
Serb
Eastern dance
Term
Srbijanka Kolo
Definition
Serb girls dance
Term
Djurdjevka Kolo
Definition
Georges Dance
Serb
Term
Malo Kolo
Definition
small dance
Term
U sest Kolo
Definition
Serb
Kolo in six
Term
Zaplanski Cacak
Definition
Cacak from the mountains
Term
Oficirsko Kolo
Definition
officers dance
Term
veliko Kolo
Definition
croatia
big dance
Term
Slavonsko Kolo
Definition
dance of slavonija
croatia
Term
Vrlicko Kolo
Definition
Dance of Vrlika or Lika
Croatia
Term
Posavski Drmes
Definition
Posavina shaking dance
croatia
Term
Turopolski drmes
Definition
Shaking dance turopolje
croatia
Term
Drmes iz Zdencina
Definition
shaking dance of Zdencina
Term
Sukacko Kolo
Definition
Suka's Dance
Croatia
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