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    Thread 1 : Choice for steps and music. What do you thing about ? (M. Caillet)

    Hello dear Bulgarian students,I watched your video about traditional dance in Bulgaria, it's a beautiful dance and very interesting but this dance is too difficult for us , do you have an other horo with more easy steps ?

    I have some questions :

    Where come from this dance ?

    Where this dance can take place ?

    How many horo there are ?

    Can you send me some links about the different horo in Bulgaria ? (Tom.Declomesnil) ;)

    Hello dear Bulgarian and Italian

    We are working on dance project , on the french traditional dance : "an dro"

    More information can be found on twinspace. Today we are looking for modern variants of this dance .

    We send you four links (Youtube) . Let us know what you prefer !

                                                                                                 Do Skoro A Presto (Bastien Bazin)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnOqkbm6DW4

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WVMOvw5kJQ

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wl-pl414ts

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZMNYhZo0q0

    Hy dear Bulgarian

    I watched some video about Thodossi Spassov , this men is a incridible musician , his musics are so calm and clear, i like it !

                                                                                                     Do Skoro (Tom Declomesnil)

    If you found this horo too difficult this is our suggestion about a much easier horo called "Pravo Horo". 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3gIgemk2tY  Hope You Will Like It !!! - Denis Ramadanov

     

    We picked the third video. What was your idea about the fourth video, was it about the music?

    Have a nice day (Vladimir Petrov)

    Thank you, we think we will be able to do it !

                                                                            Do Skoro (Tom Declomesnil)

    Our teacher from Bulgaria played us an other "horo" during a mariage,it's amazing the children always dance the "Horo"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfsXoQS-AaM

                                                                                                                                                          (Tom Declomesnil)

     

    It's our last workday in the Erasmus club before the holidays. Thus we are us interest in the meaning of the word "tarantella". We found a legend accompanied with a dance. It pleased well us. We send him to you.

     

    https://blogs.mediapart.fr/watayaga/blog/140715/peuples-de-mediterannee-la-danse-de-laraignee-la-tarentelle

     

                                                                                                                                                           (Alexis Dupont)

     

     Hello dear partners from France and Italy,

    These are some pictures and a video from our first rehearsal on Monday. As a first time when we danced our “pravo horo”, we think that it was OK.

    At least we enjoyed ourselves!                                                                                                 (Galina Marinova)

                                                              

     

     

                                                     

                                                   

     

                                                            

     

                                                    

                                                    

                          

     

    Yesterday, a group of 12 students got together and chose the English song "Hall of Fame" by The Script to be performed during the Italian show.               

    The other suggestions were : John Lennon's "Imagine" , USA for Africa "We Are The World".

     

    If you have any other suggestions you can share them with us!

     

                                                                                                                                                          (Stoycho Hristov)

     

    Hello dear partner , we have tryed tone dance the "horo",it's a exhausting and funny dance

                                                                                                                                                       (Tom Declomesnil)

     

    The two sings are good but "We Are The World" is most happiest .

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    First steps in France with Horo and An dro :

     


    Pravo Horo par maria-caillet


    andro1 par maria-caillet


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    WOW! You are doing great with Pravo Horo! We hope to learn the dance An dro as fast as you did the Pravo Horo.

    As for the song that you chose, we are not very sure if you saw all of the songs, We wrote that our choice was "Hall of Fame" . What do you think about it? This was the song that was played by Antonello in Bulgaria during the talent show. 

    Dear French friends,  have a nice winter holiday!                                                          (Stoycho Hristov) 

     

    Dear friends, I will be happy to play "Hall of Fame" again; and this time we will sing all together! 

                                                                          (Antonello Bertugno)

     

    Dear Bulgarian and French partners,

    we watched your videos of 'Horo' and 'An dro' and students are practising them. Soon we will show you an example of a 'tarantella' so that you can start dancing it. 

    Now we are also thinking about music: some IT students can play traditional music. Can any of you play, too? Would you like to play during the meeting so that we can dance with live music? Let us know... and if you have other suggestions, write!

                                                                                                  (Mariella Vaccaro)          

    I am going to have the answer of my students after the holidays, which means not before Feb.28th. The idea of a live music seems to me interesting. But I also think that the traditional instruments have their importance in every traditional music. (Page instruments)

    Maria Caillet      

     

    Dear Italian and French friends, 

    I'd like to play Bulgarian traditional music like "Horo" during the meeting. I will be so happy to enjoy all of you with an accordion.

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    Dear Ivan, we will certainly do our best so that you will find an accordion here at school for you to play!

    Here you can watch the video filmed by Italian students of a simple, basic style of 'tarantella'. Try to practice it, if you have time!

     

    And on this link you can watch a typical tarantella lucana:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xffv8Qu4rvQ

          Dear Italian partners,

       we watched your video of ''Tarantella", practised by students. I think that "Tarantella" has something in common with one of our traditional dances  which encouraged  me a bit. At least we will try to dance it before our coming in two weeks. 

       And now you can watch three new videos from our last rehearsal:                                                                                                              

                                          It’s very exciting to play Pravo horo to the accompaniment of an accordion.

                                  

                                Here is our accordionist Ivan Rashkov. He’s amazing, isn’t he?

                                 

      And these are our first steps in An dro. We know that our first trial is far from perfect, but we are not desperate and will keep practising!

                                 

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    That's great! your group is really into dances! We will have a great performance in Italy!

    Now, here are the lyrics of the song that we chose to sing all together in English as a common language for all of us:

     

     

    We are comeback on high school , we are working the dance , we expect you will be ok :) 

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    Training for Dances project :


     

     

    tarentella par maria-caillet

     



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