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| Genre | Folk dance |
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| Origin | Armenian Highlands |
| Yalli (Kochari, Tenzere), traditional group dances of Nakhchivan | |
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| Country | Azerbaijan |
| Domains | Folk dance |
| Reference | 01190 |
| Region | Europe and North America |
| Inscription history | |
| Inscription | 2018 (13th session) |
| List | Need of Urgent Safeguarding |
Tamzara[a] is a folk dance native to Armenian Highlands. In Armenia the dance originally had a ritual character, it was a wedding song and dance. Now "Tamzara" has lost its former ritual significance, when it was performed during almost all community events and parties. It is today performed by Armenians, Assyrians, Azerbaijanis (in the regions of Sharur, Nakhchivan and parts of Iranian Azerbaijan),[2][3] and Greeks.[4][5][6][7] In post-Soviet Armenia, tamzara dance is gaining more and more popularity among all strata of the population.
This dance was also especially popular in the formerly Armenian-populated regions of Erzincan, Erzurum, Kigi, Arapgir, Harput, and Malatya. There are many versions of Tamzara, with slightly different music and steps, coming from the various regions and old villages in the Armenian Highlands. According to Folk Dance Federation of California, Inc (July, 2001) Tamzara is performed by Armenians not only in Armenia, also in the countries of Armenian Diaspora.[8]
- ^ Thirty Assyrian Folk Dances
- ^ (in Azerbaijani) Irada Sariyeva. Yalli Dances of Nakhchivan. Baki Khabar. 25 January 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
- ^ Recep Albayrak Hacaloğlu. Azeri Türkçesi dil kilavuzu. Hacaloğlu, 1992; p. 272.
- ^ "Pontic Music and Dance presented in Culture section". www.newsfinder.org. Archived from the original on 2007-10-10.
- ^ Tamzara, Folk Dance Federation of California
- ^ VitriFolk Belgian Dance Community
- ^ "Stockton Folk Dance Camp" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-05-07. Retrieved 2015-03-10.
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