(classic repertoire)

Ewa Głowacka (classic repertoire)
A graduate of the Warsaw Ballet School, prima ballerina and dance teacher. She made her debut in a main role in Adama Hanuszkiewicz`s performance "Julia and Romeo". She obtained the Grand Prix III in the Polish Dance Competition in Gdańsk (1979), III World Ballet Contest in Osaka (1980) and Stanisław Wyspiański Youth Prize of 1st degree (1985). She is regularly invited to join the juries of ballet competitions. Her most important roles are: "Giselle" and "La Sylphide" (main roles), "Swan Lake", "Sleeping Beauty", "Don Kichot", "The Nutcracker". She took part in films and television programs. Also she performed with the Warsaw ballet during the tourneys in almost all European countries. She was applauded in the USA, Canada, Peru, Japan, Cuba and Taiwan.

greek dances

GŁODKOWSKA BOŻENA (Greek dances)

Journalist and editor as well great lover of Greece, especially Greek music and dance. Member of the Society of Friends of Greece in Poland. She was taught by: Irena Argira Tsermegas - a Greek native and propagator of Greek culture in Poland, Janis Karajanis - the dancer of famous Greek Dance Theater "Dora Stratou" in Athens, Kiriakos Chamalidis - Greek choreographer teaching in Greece and Germany. For several years, together with Argira Tsermegas, she has led Greek dance workshops, organized by the Society of Friends of Greece, in co-operation with Mazowieckie Centrum Kultury i Sztuki and various centers and schools inside and outside Warsaw. She participated in many Greek dance shows presented in TV programs "Kawa czy herbata" as well as multi-cultural evenings held during the conference "Dialog among civilizations". She performed during a number of events, many from which were organized under patronage of the Greek Embassy in Warsaw. Every summer she takes the opportunity to develop her dancing skills in Zorba`s homeland - Crete.

ballroom dancing

Iwona Florczyk (ballroom dance: Viennese walz, English walz and others)


Graduate of Pedagogical University in Kraków, Academy of Physical Education in Katowice and College of Entertainment and Recreation in Warsaw. The dancer of master class in standard and Latin American dances. She has set up her own Dance Studio "Styl" in Kraków. She created choreography and took part in the tv program "Spotkania z balladą" as well as co-organized the Miss Polonia and Miss Super Models competitions.

1-15.07.2007

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Dances with alphabets

A
Aar Oyun (Gagauz)
Allemande (historical, court, baroque)
American Tribal Style Belly Dance
An dro or "En dro" (Brittany, in-round traditional dance)
Antikrystos (Greece), face-to-face traditional dance
Arkan (Ukrainian, Hutsul)
Ara (Kurdish folk dance)
Avant-deux or "Avant-deux de travers", (Brittany, traditional dance)

B
Bachata (Latin Club, Folk)
Bagiye (Assyria)
Balboa (Swing)
Ballet, category, also known as classical dance
Ballroom dance, category
Ballu tundu (Sardinia)
Bandari (South of Iran)
Barn dance, category
Baroque dance, category
Barynya (Russian, folk)
Basse danse (also Basse-dance, Bassadanse, Bassadanze. French and Italian Renaissance dances)
Belly dance
Beguine, dance of Caribbean origin
Bereznianka (Ukrainian, Carpathian Ruthenia)
Bergamask (Bergomask) folk dance, from Bergamo, Italy
Bhangra
Bharatanatyam
Big Apple (Line dance)
Bihu dance
Black Bottom (see Lindy Hop)
Blitz (dance) - also known as Blitz Jive, Blitz Modern Jive (Modern Jive, Club)
Blues (Club dance, Swing)
Bolero (American Ballroom, Cuban, European)
Bomba (African, Caribbean)
Bon Odori (Japanese)
Boogaloo
Boogie-woogie (Swing)
Bop, see Bop music, also ABA at List of dance organizations
Bossa Nova (dance) (Brazilian, see Bossa nova music)
Boston (dance)
Bourrée (historical)
Branle (Bransle) (historical)
Breakaway (see Lindy Hop)
Breakdance
Bunny Hop
Butoh (Japanese)
Buyo (Japanese)

C
Cajun Jig or Cajun One Step (Louisiana, USA Regional, Cajun)
Cajun Jitterbug and Two Step, (Louisiana, USA Regional, Cajun)
Cajun Waltz (Louisiana, USA Regional, Cajun)
Cakewalk
Canaries dance (historical, Renaissance, court)
Can-can (Cancan, can can)
Capoeira (dance and martial art, Brazilian)
Carinosa (dance of love) Philippines
Carioca
Carol (Medieval)
Castle Walk
Céilidh (Ireland and Scotland)
Ceroc (Modern Jive, Club)
Chacarera (Argentina)
Chaconne
Cha cha cha or Cha cha (Latin Ballroom Social)
Chamame (Chamamé, Argentina)
Charleston
Chumak (Ukrainian)
Chasapiko (Greece)
Cheerleading
Chicken Dance
Chodzony (Poland)
Cinquepace, Cinque-pace
Circle dance
Clogging
Cocek
Collegiate shag
Competitive dance
Conga
Contact improvisation
Contemporary dance
Contra dance
Cotillion (dance)
Country/western dance
Country dancing
Country/Western Two Step
Country Swing or Western Swing
Courante (historical)
Court dance
Cross Step Waltz
Cueca (Chile)
Cumbia (Latin, Club)
Csárdás (Folk, Hungarian; also variants in Slovak dances, Rusyn dances, (Ukrainian dances, Lemko dances))

D
Dance Dance Revolution
Dances of Universal Peace
Dabke (Levatine)
Dérobée (aka "dérobée de Guingamp", Brittany, traditional dance)
Disco
Dragon dance
Drifter
Drobushki (Russia)
Dera gay (Aruba)
Dubotanets (Ukrainian)

E
Dance Type Origin
East Coast Swing Swing, American ballroom United States
Eisa Folk dance Okinawa/Ryūkyū
Electric Slide Line dance United States
English Country Dance Folk dance England
Ethnic dance - -


F
Fad dance
Fandango
Farandole (Provencal)
Farruca
Flamenco (Spanish/gypsy)
Folk dance
Formation dance
Forró (dance from norhteast of Brazil)
Foxtrot (Ballroom Social)
The Freddy
Frug
Freak dancing
Fysouni (Greece)

G
Gaida (Greece)
Galliard
Galop
Gankino (Bulgaria)
Gavotte (Brittany), Gavot (historical)
Gigue
Grizzly Bear
Guapacha

H
Habanera
Haka (Māori)
Halay (Turkish, Folk)
Hanter-dro (Brittany, traditional dance)
Hambo (Scandinavian, Folk)
Hasapiko (Greece)
Haytarma (Crimean Tatars)
Headbanging
Highland dancing
Hip hop dance
Historical dance
Hitch hike
Hokey Pokey, also known as Hokey-cokey, Okey-cokey
Hootchy-Kootchy
Holubka (Ukrainian, Hutsul, Bukovina, Carpathian Ruthenia)
Hopak (Ukrainian)
Hopak-Kolom (Ukrainian)
Hora (many named versions; folk, Israeli, Romanian, Ukrainian)
Horan (Crimean Tatars)
Horon (Turkish, Folk)
Hornpipe (Ireland)
Hula
Hully Gully
Hustle and its variant, New York Hustle (Club)
Latin Hustle
Humppa (see Music of Finland)
Hutsulka (Ukrainian, Hutsuls)

I
Ice dancing
Ikariotikos (Greece)
Intercessory dance
International folk dance
Interpretive dance
Irish dance

J
Japanese traditional dance (Japanese)
Jazz dance
Jazzjive (Modern Jive, Club)
Jenkka (see Music of Finland)
Jig Ireland
Jig (Scottish country)
Jitterbug (Swing)
Cajun Jitterbug
Jitterbug Stroll (Line dance, Swing)
Jive (Ballroom, International Latin)
Joged (Indonesian)
Jota (Spanish dance)
Jove Malaj Mome (Bulgarian folk dance)

K
Kalymnikos (Greece)
Kamarinskaya (Russia)
Kandyan Dances (Sri Lanka)
Karagouna (Greece)
Karsilama (Antikrystos, Marinella) (Greece, Gypsy)
Kastrinos (Greece)
Kathak (India)
Kathakali (India, incorporates dance)
Kaytarma (Crimean Tatars)
Kazachok (Russia)
Kerkyraikos (Greece)
Khasapiko (Greece)
Kolo (Slavic)
Khorovod (Russia)
Kleistos (Greece)
Koftos (Greece)
Kolomyjka (Ukrainian)
Kopanitsa (Bulgaria)
Kotsari (Greece)
Kozachok (Ukrainian)
Krakowiak (Poland)
Krumping (Western U.S.)
Kujawiak (Poland)

L
Lambada
Lambeth Walk
Lancer (Quadrille)
Landler (Quadrille)
Laridé or ridée (traditional dance of south Brittany)
Latin dances
Lavolta
leJive (Modern Jive, Club)
Lerikos (Greece)
LeRoc (Modern Jive, Club)
Letkajenkka (also known as Letkajenka, Letkiss, Letka-Enka)
Leventikos (Greece)
Limbo (dancers pass under horizontal pole)
Lindy Chorus (Line dance)
Lindy Hop (Swing)
Line dance
Lion dance
Long Sword
Loure (historical)

M
Macarena
Madison (Line dance)
Malaguena
Mandra(Mandilatos)(Balkan)
Mambo (American Ballroom, of Cuban origin)
Marinella (Greece)
Mashed Potato
Matachin (Matachines)
Maypole dance
Maxixe (Social)
Mazur (dance) (Poland)
Mazurka(Poland)
Medieval dance
Melbourne Shuffle (Australia)
Menousis (Greece)
Merengue (Latin Club)
Mexican Hat Dance
Metelytsia ((Ukrainian), khorovod)
Milonga (see Argentine Tango)
Minuet
Mo'jive (Modern Jive, Club)
Modern dance
Modern Jive - umbrella term (Club)
Molly dance
Mohiniattam
Monkey
Morris dance
Moshing

N
Novelty and fad dances
The Nutbush

O
Oberek (also called Obertas or Ober, Poland)
Odissi (India)
One Step (Social)

P
Pachanga
Palo de Mayo (Nicaragua), Afro-Caribbean influence, not to be confused with Maypole dance
Partner dance
Participation dance
Passacaglia (Passacaille) (historical)
Passepied (historical)
Pasillo
Paso Doble (Ballroom, International Latin)
Pavane (historical)
Peewee style (originated by Pee-Wee Herman in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure)
Pentozalis (Greece)
Pidikhtos (Greece)
Kastrinos Pidikhtos (Greece)
Malevyziotiko Pidikhtos (Greece)
Pendozalis (Greece)
Pogo (A punk dance, consisting of jumping up and down)
Pogonisios (Greece)
Polka - many named versions (Ballroom, Folk, Historical)
Polka-mazurka
Polonaise
Pony
Pols (Norvegia, Folk, see Polska)
Pom Squad
Polska (pl.: Polskor; Sweden, Folk)
Prophetic dance
Pryvit (Ukrainian)
Punk dance
Push (Swing, Texas)

Q
Quadrille
Quickstep (Ballroom)

R
Rain dancing
Ramvong (Cambodia)
Rapper sword
Raqs Sharqi ("belly dance")
Rebetiko dances (Greece)
Redowa
Reel (Irish and Scottish)
Regency dance
Reggae
Reggaeton
Renaissance dance
Rigaudon
Rock and Roll
Acrobatic Rock'n'Roll
Rouga (Greece)
Round dance (two kinds: circular chain, couples)
Rumba (International Ballroom, American Smooth, Folk)
Cuban Rumba (Ballroom dance as of the beginning of the century, e.g., "The Peanut Vendor" piece)
Rhumba (heavily overlaps with "Rumba", but some insist on distinctions in the usage)

S
Salon dance
Salsa (Latin Club)
Salsa Rueda (Latin Club, Round)
Samba (dance) (Ballroom, International Latin; also Brazilian traditional, see Samba (music))
Samba de Gafieira
Carnival Samba
Sarabande (Saraband)
Sardana (Catalonia)
Sattriya dance
Schottische
Scottish country dance
Scottish highland dance
Seguidilla (Spanish, folk)
Sequence dance
Serra (Greece)
Serviko (Serbian)
Set Dance Ireland
Sevillana (Spain)
Shag (Swing)
Carolina Shag
Collegiate Shag
St. Louis Shag
Shake
Shim Sham (Line dance)
Shimmy
Shuffle
Siganos (Greece)
Single Swing
Single Time Swing
Sirtaki (Syrtaki, Zorba) (Greece)
Skank (dance)
Skip jive
Slängpolska (Sweden, Folk, see Polska)
Slip jig (Ireland)
Slow Foxtrot - also known as Foxtrot and Slowfox (Ballroom)
Social dance
Soft Shoe
Soraya ("Bellydance")
Sousta (Greece)
Bulgarian Sousta (Greece)
Cretan Sousta (Greece)
Dodecanese Sousta (Greece)
Macedonian Sousta (Greece)
Square dance
Traditional square dance
Modern Western square dance
Sta tria (Greece)
Stage diving
Step dance Ireland
Street dance
Stroll
Svarniara (Greece)
Swim
Swing (both as family of dances and as specific Texas dance)
Swing Jive (Modern Jive, Club)
Swing Roc (Modern Jive, Club)
Suzie Q
Syrtos (Syrto) (Greece)
Cretan Syrtos (Greece)
Kalamatianos Syrtos (Mainland Syrtos) (Greece)
Kapoutzidon Syrtos (Greece)
Nisiotiko Syrtos (Island Syrtos) (Greece)
Silyvriano Syrtos (Greece)

T
Table dance
Tango (Ballroom, Social, Club)
Argentine Tango - also known as Tango Argentino (Social)
Brazilian Tango - see Maxixe
Finnish tango
Chinese tango
Tap dance
Tap Charleston (see Lindy Hop)
Tarantella (Italian, folk)
Texas Tommy (see Lindy Hop)
Tik (Greece)
Time Warp
Tourdion (historical)
Traditional dance
Trata (Greece)
Treedancing (A special way of dancing on technoparades, e.g. loveparade)
Trepak (Russian, folk)
Tribal Style Belly Dance
Troika (Folk, Russian, Cajun)
Tropotianka (Ukrainian, Rusyn, Carpathian Ruthenia, Bukovina, Hutsuls)
Tsakonikos (Greece)
Tsamiko (Greece)
Tsifteteli (Tsifte-Teli) (Çifte-telli) (Turkish) Greece)(Gypsy)(Arabic)
Tsirigotikos (Kythiraikos, Bourdaris) (Greece)
Tsyganochka
Tumba
Twist
Two Step
Cajun Two Step
Country/western two-step
Nightclub two-step - also known as California two-step, abbrn: NC2S
Progressive Double Two

U
Universal Peace, Dances of
Ukrainian dance
Upa or Upa Habanera, claimed by some to be the origin of merengue music and dance.
Uvyvanets (Ukrainian, Carpathian Ruthenia, Rusyns, Lemkos, Hutsuls)

V
Vals (Argentina, tango style)
Verbunkos
Vesnianka (Ukrainian, a type of khorovod)
Vintage dance
Volte (also Volta, La volta, or Lavolta, Renaissance)

W
Waltz (ballroom, social)
Boston (dance)
Walking Boston
Cajun Waltz
Dream Waltz
Elizabeth Waltz
Cross-step Waltz (Cross Step Waltz)
Five-step Waltz (Five Step Waltz)
Hesitation Waltz
Slow waltz - known as Waltz in ballroom context (ballroom)
Viennese Waltz (ballroom, social)
Waltz a deux temps (Waltz a deux pas)
Watusi (fad dance)
Welly boot dance (Africa)
West Coast Swing ("WCS"; Swing, United States)
Western swing (United States)
Classic WCS
Funky WCS
Sophisticated Swing (an older name of WCS)
Western promenade dance
Whip (Swing, Texas)
Worship dance

Y
Yablochko (Russian, folk)
Yerakina (Greece)
YMCA
Yakshagana (India, Karnataka)

Z
Zapateado (Spain)
Zeibekiko (also spelled Zeibetiko, Zembetiko, Zebetiko, and Zembekiko; Greece)
Zeibeks, Teke zortlatması (Turkey)
Zonaradiko (Thrace)
Zorba's dance (of Greek origin)
Zouk (Caribbean)
Zydeco (Louisiana, U.S.)

cumbia

cumbia

Cumbia is originally a Colombian folk dance and dance music and is Colombia's representative national dance and music along with vallenato. Cumbia is very popular, widely known in the Latin music mainstream (except Brazil); South America, as well as Central America and Mexico, with lots of regional variations and tendencies. The traditional instruments of cumbia were mainly percussion; different types of drums, claves and a güiro, and woodwinds; flutes.


Modern cumbia includes instrumental mixing; guitars, accordions, bass guitar, modern flutes and modern deep-toned drums and other percussions. The basic rhythm structure is 4/4. Cumbia is the net intersection of two cultures that settled in the region of what is now northern Colombia at different times; the Amerindians and African slaves. Cumbia began as a courtship dance practiced among the slave population that was later mixed with the European instruments and influence.

Origins

Cumbia is believed to be a variant of the African Guinean cumbe music. Cumbia started in the northern region of Colombia, mainly in or around Cartagena during the period of Spanish colonization. Spain used its ports to import African slaves, who tried to preserve their musical traditions and also turned the drums and dances into a courtship ritual. Cumbia was mainly interpreted with just drums and claves.

The slaves were later influenced by the sounds of Amerindian instruments from the Kogui and Kuna tribes settled between the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Montes de María; like the millo flutes, gaita flutes and güiros. Africans and Amerindians working together as slaves created a mixture from which the gaitero (cumbia interpreter) appeared, with a defined identity by the 1800s. (These gaiteros are not to be associated with the Venezuelan Zulian gaiteros.) The European guitars and accordions were added later, through Spanish influence.


Cumbia as a courtship ritual

The danced courtship ritual was rhythmically performed with music played by groups of men and women couples; women playfully waving with their long skirts and holding a candle, while the men danced behind the women, with one hand on his back and the other one holding his hat, putting it on and off and waving it. Men also carried a red type of handkerchief which they either wrapped around their necks, waved in circles in the air or handheld together with women. Until mid-20th century, cumbia was considered a vulgar dance, practiced only by the lower classes.

Musical instruments

Traditional instruments used in cumbia:

Drums: Cumbia drums were of African origin and were brought along with slaves to the Americas by the Spanish conquerors. Africans used wood, ropes made out of sisal (Agave sisalana), and animal dry skins to make their drums. They either played the drum by hitting it with their hands or with sticks. Sometimes they wrapped the tip of the sticks with dry skin to prevent wearing off the drum. Cumbia interpreters produce variations of the sound emitted by the drum by hitting it on almost every area of the wooden base and dry skin.

Claves: claves are a couple of hard thick sticks, usually used to set the beat through out the song.

Cumbia in Latin America


Colombia: Today traditional cumbia is preserved and considered representative of the Colombian identity, but especially in the Northern Caribbean coast. It is also associated to Barranquilla's Carnival and the Vallenato Legend Festival. Modern forms of Cumbia are only preferred by the lower classes, but widely accepted when fusioned with other genres such as vallenato or rock; similar to Carlos Vives signature.

Argentina: CTends to be appreciated more by the lower social classes, and is often scorned by the upper classes. In Argentina, for example, this social divide is exemplified by the cumbia villera phenomenon, that intends to represent and resonate with the poor and marginalized dwellers of villas miseria (shanty towns and slums), with lyrics glorifying theft and drug abuse, much like Northern American hip hop. However, it must be noted that a lighter form of cumbia enjoyed widespread popularity in Argentina during the 1990s (see Argentine cumbia).

Chile: Popular with the lower social classes, it is often made fun of by the middle and upper classes. Nevertheless, it is widely danced at parties and gathering.
Mexico: (see Mexican cumbia),

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