FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE OF TRADITIONAL KAZAKH CHOREOGRAPHY: ANIMALISTIC CODE

Ənənəvi Qazax xoreoqrafiyasının obrazlı dili: heyvani kod
Kulsariyeva A.
2023 Azerbaijan Science Center

Scientific Work
2023 #17 Issue 10 8 - 12 pp.

Kazakh folk dances are unique and distinctive thus it has not been adopted by professional artists as quickly as oral traditional Kazakh folklore. Authors of this article believe that folk dance can be characterised as rhythmic memory of body movements or live element of nomad culture, which describes mindset and perspective of Kazakh people about world around them (cosmos, earth, heaven and its dwellers). The main purpose of this article is to unravel fundamental layers of dance folklore of nomadic Kazakhs in animalistic contents by researching preserved written sources and artistic artifacts (rock paintings, records of travellers and artists) as well as materials of etno-choreography of Turkic people.

animalistic code , figurative language , Kazakhs-nomads , Kazakhstan , male and female dances , traditional choreography

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Kazakh National Pedagogical University named after Abay, Kazakhstan

Kazakh National Pedagogical University named after Abay

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