Kolo (dance)
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Kolo (Template:Langx) is a South Slavic circle dance, found under this name in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, and parts of Slovenia. It is inscribed on the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage for Serbia.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Description
The circle dance is usually performed amongst groups of at least three people and up to several dozen people. Dancers hold each other's hands or each other's waists. They form a circle, a single chain or multiple parallel lines.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="crkvenikalendar">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Kolo requires almost no movement above the waist. The basic steps are easy to learn. Experienced dancers demonstrate virtuosity by adding different ornamental elements, such as syncopated steps. Each region has at least one unique kolo.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="crkvenikalendar" /> It is difficult to master the dance and even most experienced dancers cannot master all of them.<ref name="crkvenikalendar" />
Kolo is performed at weddings, social, cultural, and religious ceremonies.<ref name="Britannica">"kolo" (2009). Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved March 26, 2009.</ref> Some dances require both men and women to dance together, others require only the men or only the women.
Music
The music is generally fast-paced.<ref name="Britannica" /> The dance was used by Antonín Dvořák in his Slavonic Dances – the Serbian kolo is the seventh dance from opus 72.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Traditional dance costume
Traditional dance costumes vary from region to region. Bordering regions are mostly more similar to each other.<ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Various kolos are performed at social ceremonies. Often traditional clothing, which is unique to a region, is worn. The most common kolo is the narodno kolo or drmeš; a standard step followed by accordion music.
Other South Slavic circle dances
Elsewhere in South Slavic countries, there is horo (Template:Langx) in Bulgaria and oro (Template:Langx) in North Macedonia and Montenegro.<ref name="Britannica" />
Influence
Hungarian communities were also influenced by the tradition, where a similar dance is known as Kalala in Laslovo.<ref>Kalala, Hungarian Lexicon of Ethnography, https://www.arcanum.com/hu/online-kiadvanyok/Lexikonok-magyar-neprajzi-lexikon-71DCC/k-72CDA/kalala-kalalazas-72CFD/</ref>
See also
- Armenian dance
- Assyrian folk dance
- Croatian dances
- Dabke
- Faroese dance
- Greek dances
- Hora (dance), an equivalent of the kolo
- Khorovod, an Eastern European circle dance
- Kurdish dance
- Serbian dances
- Turkish dance
References
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