Vaagn Tadevosyan & Valeria Tatarinzeva (Modern Haligi)

#Choreography MUSIC: ARWA - Bakolak Dance stylization in the modern world Nowadays we often face to the widespread reaction of the broad public to the folk dance stylization and the first words we hear about it are like: "That¬ a folk dance!&"We don&dance this way in our country!", "They don&dance like that there!" and so on. It&quite a usual occurrence when society doesn&understand the difference between the dance stylization, folk-stage dance, folk dance, ethnic and traditional dances. Each of these groups has close connection with national culture, and each of them is a certain form of a folk dance. I am a folk dancer. I used to dance and to study choreography at the university for five years and in the folk ensemble for nine years, trying to understand the essence and the idea of the folk dance in theory and in practice. I would like to devote this small article right to the theme of “The dance stylization”. I hope it will be useful for many people, and it will at least decrease division and disputes in the society all over the world. The nature itself programmed new stage forms to appear in the course of time. It seems to be some function of self-preservation of the folk art throughout the time and space not only in dancing but in music, film industry, theatre and many others as well. And the only goal of this function is to keep authenticity in the modern world and to transfer cumulative experience from one generation to another by means of connection with...