Kochari - Armenian dance
One version of the very popular Kochari dance.
2/24/2007
Armenian-Musalertsee Dance
Another folk dance from the region of Svedia (Western Armenia). The descendants of 7 villages that were forcefully uprooted and rescued by the french documented in a novel "the fourty days of Moussa Dagh" by Frantz Werfel, gather every year to in commemoration for their martyrs during that heroic battle against the Turkish genocidal state. These dances are part of a group of which some have been lost through the practice of cultural genocide.
P.S. If anyone out there has videos, recordings of the dances and songs from these villages please be kind and share them either through U-Tube or/and forwarding me a copy of them. I will pay you the shipping costs just let me know by email.
I am interested to make this blog a repository of all the cultural relics that are scatted around the world because of the Armenian genocide. Dances from all region of Western Armenian, including their proper names, songs, poetry, pictures so we can document the cultural and spiritual destruction besides the physical extinction that we all talk about.
Another folk dance from the region of Svedia (Western Armenia). The descendants of 7 villages that were forcefully uprooted and rescued by the french documented in a novel "the fourty days of Moussa Dagh" by Frantz Werfel, gather every year to in commemoration for their martyrs during that heroic battle against the Turkish genocidal state. These dances are part of a group of which some have been lost through the practice of cultural genocide.
P.S. If anyone out there has videos, recordings of the dances and songs from these villages please be kind and share them either through U-Tube or/and forwarding me a copy of them. I will pay you the shipping costs just let me know by email.
I am interested to make this blog a repository of all the cultural relics that are scatted around the world because of the Armenian genocide. Dances from all region of Western Armenian, including their proper names, songs, poetry, pictures so we can document the cultural and spiritual destruction besides the physical extinction that we all talk about.
Armenian Genocide
Genocide denial in Action. After eliminating 99% of its Armenian population, and working to silence and destroy their kurdish population because they just want to be who they are, in broad daylight they killed Hrant Dink a journalist who spoke openly issues the Turkish state does not want to face. Yet, they want to join the European Union without sharing European values. They want to force others into silence, destroy their churches and cultural heritages while contemplating building mosques in Europe and subjecting the Europeans to them.
Genocide denial in Action. After eliminating 99% of its Armenian population, and working to silence and destroy their kurdish population because they just want to be who they are, in broad daylight they killed Hrant Dink a journalist who spoke openly issues the Turkish state does not want to face. Yet, they want to join the European Union without sharing European values. They want to force others into silence, destroy their churches and cultural heritages while contemplating building mosques in Europe and subjecting the Europeans to them.
11/05/2006
Voices From The Lake
| A documentary on the Genocide, focusing on the tragedy during the last days of Kharpert. 83 min. | |
10/30/2006
Concerto del musicista armeno Djivan Gasparyan
| Concerto presso Mater Ecclesiae del musicista armeno Gasparyan tenutosi a Bari il 20 dicembre 2005 What a wonderful concert by Djivan Gasparian(jivan Kasparian) and his Duduk ensemble at a performance in Italy. A rare eclectic treat. You'll hear a sampling of songs collected by father Gomidas. Cultural treasures that would have been forever lost with the people that perished in the genocide. Father Gomidas collected these folk songs from the cities and villages that were ethnically cleansed from its indigenous population, the western Armenians. | |
10/28/2006
10/16/2006
Sharing
The advent of the internet has enabled us to share ideas, pictures, videos, etc. that would not have been possible before. Within just a couple months, my perceptions of it's capabilities have increased tenfold.
To counteract the effects of the cultural genocide, the internet could become a great tool to share the rescued remnants of that culture.
Hopefully this blog will encourage people from around the world to start posting what they have in their, or in their friends/relatives, possession; whether that be a practiced art such as dance, crafts, music, or rescued cultural relics such as books, poetry, pictures, stories, or memoirs, etc.
I have posted a dance that I discovered on google videos. A great armenian dance, and will be posting an authenthic village dance as practiced by some old timers somewhere in America at a picknick.
As evidenced from watching the Govdantsi Bar, the dancers are advanced in their age and
there are no youngsters among them to learn and preserve the dance. One can only imagine how much livelier and how many more dances were enjoyed by the people from this village in their own town before they were deported, marched to the desert and massacred by the turks.
We should all make an effort with the present technology in our disposal, be it in Australia or Swaziland, to be witnesses to these bits of cultural treasures. Record and post them on the internet whether through personal blogs or through sending them to others if one can not.
Only then would we be able to pay respect the spirits of the martyrs that perished in the first genocide of the twentieth century.
Enjoy the two videos
Share your videos, pictures, literature, or arts and crafts or stories from the lost villages in Western Armenia.
And, above all.
Learn to dance the govdantsi dance as you watch it, save it, share it(and any others like it) whether you are 5 year old or 105 year old so you can join the old timers if you are lucky or teach them to a few others and keep the spirit of our ancestors alive and those who survived and kept what they could alive in far away places.
To counteract the effects of the cultural genocide, the internet could become a great tool to share the rescued remnants of that culture.
Hopefully this blog will encourage people from around the world to start posting what they have in their, or in their friends/relatives, possession; whether that be a practiced art such as dance, crafts, music, or rescued cultural relics such as books, poetry, pictures, stories, or memoirs, etc.
I have posted a dance that I discovered on google videos. A great armenian dance, and will be posting an authenthic village dance as practiced by some old timers somewhere in America at a picknick.
As evidenced from watching the Govdantsi Bar, the dancers are advanced in their age and
there are no youngsters among them to learn and preserve the dance. One can only imagine how much livelier and how many more dances were enjoyed by the people from this village in their own town before they were deported, marched to the desert and massacred by the turks.
We should all make an effort with the present technology in our disposal, be it in Australia or Swaziland, to be witnesses to these bits of cultural treasures. Record and post them on the internet whether through personal blogs or through sending them to others if one can not.
Only then would we be able to pay respect the spirits of the martyrs that perished in the first genocide of the twentieth century.
Enjoy the two videos
Share your videos, pictures, literature, or arts and crafts or stories from the lost villages in Western Armenia.
And, above all.
Learn to dance the govdantsi dance as you watch it, save it, share it(and any others like it) whether you are 5 year old or 105 year old so you can join the old timers if you are lucky or teach them to a few others and keep the spirit of our ancestors alive and those who survived and kept what they could alive in far away places.
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