This Black Sea dance is performed by men dressed in black with silver trimmings. The dancers link arms and quiver to the vibrations of the kemence, a primitive type of violin.

Folk dances have different characteristics based on region and location and are generally engaged in during weddings, journeys to the mountains in the summer, when sending sons off to military service and during religious and national holidays. it s called Horon in Turkey.

The way the dancers sweep upwards, tighten ranks, open up their arms like wings, or strike their knees on the ground: the sounds of drum and fife, bagpipes, and kemence: the shouts, and joining arm, hand and shoulder, all have their symbolic meanings.

Horon comes from hur-kor, meaning sun. Researchers have identified over fifty variations on the horon in a single region. These dances demand exceptional speed, agility and skill in the dancers, who are generally accompanied by the kemence.


Akçaabat Horon Video

Ohh I love this And the music too!


And now that I see Akçaabat.. is there something like Akçaabat köftesi? Then I ate it And before they served our köfte, they served something with melted cheese? They said it was also special for blacksea.

Not sure if this dance step is from the Black Sea?
1. Roswitha
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU4TVV9YBwc

Akçaabat is famous with it s köfte too


yes Roswitta, if Im from black sea (if we didnt come from space) this dance is belong to Black sea

Do you know what the name of that cheese-dish might have been? It was melted cheese if I recall well, and you ate it with bread. Ama üç sene önce yemiştim.. when I first came to İzmir for longer than 1 day..so I dont remember well. Love makes blinde So I dont think I saw what I ate

My husband isn't from the Black Sea area but I love to watch the men from his village dance....the music is so lively! Those are some of my favorite memories of Turkey.

anyone from Ireland??? Have you noticed that the bagpipe of Celts and the gayda played in Blacksea are the same thing?

check out the article below. It talks about a group of people from the Taurus mountains called "Kelteris". They are said to be descended from Celts and Turks, but according to the article, the interraction took place in the 11th century during the first period of Turkish settlements in Anatolia. I think that`s different from the Celtic migration in the 3th century.

http://www.haberosmaniye.com/yazi/son-kelteri