The Mother of Uighur Music: Twelve Muqam

[H. İhsan Erkoç]

pantekin said:

in this vidieo link you will find a mass of uighurs dancing sama in front of kashgar mosque after Ramadan prayer. please enjoy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQjVj26Xmn8
www.56.com/n_v3_/c3_/9_/25_/saipidin050_/1162232213_50_/335386_/0_/2798906.swf

The Uyghur dance looks like both the Alevi Semahs and the Zeybek dance played in the Aegean coast region of Turkey.

[Atabeg]

admin said:

pantekin said:

in this vidieo link you will find a mass of uighurs dancing sama in front of kashgar mosque after Ramadan prayer. please enjoy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQjVj26Xmn8
www.56.com/n_v3_/c3_/9_/25_/saipidin050_/1162232213_50_/335386_/0_/2798906.swf

The Uyghur dance looks like both the Alevi Semahs and the Zeybek dance played in the Aegean coast region of Turkey.

yes I think so 2 eventhough most zeybeks are slower but we mostly see agir(heavy) zeybeks


I have seen this type of dancing somehwere else I think it was more formal it was done at a Porgram of teh TRT it was about Uygur Muqam music they also had horns of some animal with rings

[H. İhsan Erkoç]

Yes, the speed of that Uyghur dance is faster than the Anatolian Zeybek, but the moves are very similar.