Articles about 'Dances'
February 5th, 2013
Laba is a Chinese festival that has traditionally started off the Chinese New Year preparations. It’s on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.
Agnes wrote about it from China:
"We eat Laba Rice Porridge and Laba Garlic for the Laba Festival. Laba Porridge is made of mixed grains and corns, like peanuts, chestnuts, dates...
May 23rd, 2012
Maypole Dances were traditionally done on May 1st for May Day. One type of Maypole Dance is called a Ribbon Dance. The dancers each hold a ribbon that’s attached to the Maypole. They then dance around the pole, sometimes intertwining ribbons.
Below is a video of a simple and pretty Maypole Dance in the style...
December 10th, 2011
Nyango M. Nambangi sent us this Cameroonian song from her childhood in Africa. It’s a lovely song to sing with children and they can even dance while singing! Like many African songs, it’s a call and response song.
In the recording below, Nyango explains how to sing and dance to the song. Then she sings...
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July 19th, 2011
Monique, a retired teacher in France, wrote to me about a Maypole Dance, "We have a dance related to the May pole tradition." This pretty dance is from Provence…
Monique wrote, "We had the 4th graders dance it when the topic of the ‘fête de fin d’année’ (the end of the school year party) was Occitania. ...
July 2nd, 2011
Here’s the score to a Swedish song and dance. We don’t have the original Swedish lyrics. We do have an English translation, instructions for the dance and 2 midi tunes. Does anyone know the original Swedish version? If so, please share them with us in the comments below.
Midi of the Swedish Children’s Song
Midi 2 of...
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