Kochari

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Kochari
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Young Armenians dancing kochari in Yerevan
Native nameՔոչարի
GenreFolk dance
Circle dance
OriginArmenia

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Kochari, traditional group dance
CountryArmenia
Reference01295
RegionEurope and North America
Inscription history
Inscription2017 (12th session)
ListRepresentative

Kochari (Template:Langx; Template:Langx; Template:Langx; Template:Langx) is an Armenian 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". Գուճ (gudj or goudj) means "knee" and արի (ari) means "come".[10][page needed]
  • In Azerbaijani Turkish, "köç" means "to move" used both as a verb and as a noun,[11] with the latter used more in the context of nomads' travelling. "Köçəri" is also both an adjective and a noun, meaning a "nomad" and "nomadic" simultaneously.[12]
  • In Pontic Greek, from the Greek "κότσι" (in Pontic Greek "κοτς") meaning "heel" (from Medieval Greek "κόττιον" meaning the same) and "αίρω" 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:

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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

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A part of Armenian kochari

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 Kόtsari

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

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References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Kochari". Bennet Pilgrimages. 11 April 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Vvedensky, Boris, ed. (1953). Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in русский). Vol. 23 (Second ed.). Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia. p. 170. КОЧАРИ — армянский народный мужской танец.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Yuzefovich, Victor (1985). Aram Khachaturyan. New York: Sphinx Press. p. 217. ISBN 978-0-8236-8658-2. ..and in the sixth scene one of the dances of the gladiators is very reminiscent of Kochari, the Armenian folk dance.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.BetBasoo, Peter Pnuel (30 April 2003). "Thirty Assyrian Folk Dances" (PDF). Assyrian International News Agency. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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.
  7. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Yalli (Kochari, Tenzere), traditional group dances of Nakhchivan - intangible heritage - Culture Sector - UNESCO". ich.unesco.org. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Kotsari". Pontian.info. Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia Volume 4 (in հայերեն). Yerevan: Armenian Encyclopedia Publishing. 1978. p. 476.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cholakean, Hakob (2016). Ավանդական ուղղագրություն. Yerevan.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."KÖÇ". Archived from the original on 2023-08-05. Retrieved 2020-12-05.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."KÖÇƏRİ". Archived from the original on 2023-08-05. Retrieved 2020-12-05.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Blacking, John (1979). The Performing Arts: Music and Dance. Walter de Gruyter. p. 71. ISBN 978-90-279-7870-7.
  14. ^ Kochari // Music encyclopedic dictionary / Yu.V. Keldysh, M.G. Aranovsky, L.Z. Korabelnikova — Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1990. — p. 275.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Kochari, traditional group dance". UNESCO. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The National Dancings". Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Intangible Heritage: Seven elements inscribed on the List in Need of Urgent Safeguarding". UNESCO. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
  18. ^ Greece - Page 67 by Paul Hellander, Kate Armstrong, Michael Clark, Des Hannigan, Victoria Kyriakopoulos, Miriam Raphael, Andrew Ston
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Kotchari". Pontos World. 10 November 2019.

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