Folk Dances
The farmers’ dance is a dance that combines dance and rural folk band music. It is a one of the only dances that uses such combinations. When the dance first came along it was used to entertain the farming community. It made the farmers excited through its use of elaborate rhythms of percussion instruments and a cone like oboe. This dance promotes a natural and high spirited swinging of the upper body. This dance can take many kinds of choreography. There are small hand drums that are rotated and hit while dancers quickly spin towards the ground at different angles. There are wild drum beating and rotating heads, this causes dazzling white strips to spin in the air. All of these moves makes an exciting and fun ambiance.
The hour-glass drum dance or Changgochum is performed by a solo dancer with an hour-glass shaped drum. These drums are either loosely held by a shoulder strap of attached around the dancer’s waist. When it is attached the waist it is called the soljangochum. Soljango beats are added for the soljangochum. For that style the dancers use a wide verity or jumps, skips, and turns. This is significantly harder than the dance where it is loosely strapped around the shoulder.
The Ogomu or five drum dance, is made from dancers beating different patterns and rhythms on their drums in a fashion is it all the same. The patterns and rhythms are usually played with five drums usually. This dance was originally made from the Buddhist and shaman rituals. The style of playing can very and the number of drums can be changed from three to five sometimes even up to seven or nine.
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