Since ancient times, the Caucasus was inhabited by many ethnic groups. Hundreds of Greek myths and legends have made this mountain region of Eurasia well-known and famous to the world. Nowadays, Caucasian culture has been influenced by fifty different ethnic groups at least, which continuously create their own history, culture, to preserve their distinctive ethnic world in the Caucasus region.
World trends in global alliances, cultural exchanges, generate growing interest to learn the culture of the Caucasus region. Boundless heritage of the Caucasus opened to the world the tradition of the Caucasian folk dance. Today all the prominent elements and techniques of the Caucasian folk dance become recognizable with the audience. Late demand to the study of modern Caucasian folk dance is justified by the fact that the Caucasian folk dance is very ancient form of the dance, which only began to crush the dance stage of the European world from the middle of the XX-th century.
Like any other art, the art of dance has no boundaries. At all times, the dance, is rightly called the mother of all the arts. Certainly, the scientific evidence of the benefits of the dance remains indisputable. For example, today, ballroom dances are, in fact, popular and spectacular sport. In turn, training of the Caucasian folk dance requires from the dancer the same efforts, energy and athletic skill in the dance.
In Ukraine, the Caucasian folk dance art is relatively new art, which, however, already has attracted large audiences among Ukrainians and other nationalities of Ukraine to educate the myriad cultures of the Caucasus. Dance groups of Caucasian folk dance, their emotional images and rhythms, can be more often heard in Kyiv halls, they collect unforgettable moments and notices during the dance.
Caucasian folk dance school in Kyiv (№1), in February of this year, was celebrated its second anniversary. In Kyiv, concert the “Rhythms of the Caucasus” was organized by the leaders of the “World Youth” organization. During this short existence of the Caucasian folk dance school in Kyiv, one managed to declare itself not only in Ukraine, but also abroad. This dance school is known to be the only school in Ukraine to teach the audience of all Caucasian dances.
Dance “Lezginka” is a national dance of many people in the Caucasus Mountains. The name of the dance derives from the Lezgin people. Lezginka become a kind of a logo of any Caucasian.
Lezginka – it is very fast and old dance. Nevertheless, Georgians, Ossetians, Chechens, the Russia Kuban, Ingush, and many others ethnicities of Dagestan have their own variants of this dance. In Ukraine, Caucasian folk dance tradition becomes popular from day to day.
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