Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Dawnswyr Nantgarw (Nantgarw Dancers) dance alongside Ballet Cymru in WOMEX, Millennium Centre, Cardiff. Day of dance, Caerphilly Castle. The Welsh dance (Welsh: Dawns Gymreig), also known as the Welsh folk dance (Welsh: Dawnsio gwerin), is a traditional dance in Wales, performed to Welsh traditional music and while usually wearing a traditional Welsh costume.
Nantgarw tradition is a style of Welsh folk dancing from the South and Valleys regions of Wales, specifically associated with the small village of Nantgarw. The style encompasses both handkerchief and stick dances. The dances call for eight dancers in four pairs. [1]
Lois Blake (21 May 1890 – 19 November 1974), born Lois Agnes Fownes Turner, was a British folklorist and "the driving force behind the revival of folk dancing in Wales." [ 1 ] She was the founding president of the Welsh Folk Dance Society in 1949.
A public meeting was held in The Castle, Shrewsbury, on Saturday, July 23, 1949, where the Welsh Folk Dance Society was founded. [3] The society was formed in order to both revive and promote old traditional Welsh dances and create new ones.
The competitive Welsh style of dance varies from stylised group dancing to a more traditional and natural dancing scene. Welsh clog dancing is also performed individually by both men and women. The male style of dance is particularly dynamic, including so-called "tricks" usually performed at the end of a performance.
Royal Welsh Show [16] [17] Steelhouse Festival ( Aberbeeg ) [ 5 ] Sesiwn Fawr Dolgellau , 2005 Parti Ponty ( Ynysangharad War Memorial Park , Pontypridd ) [ 18 ] [ 19 ]
Catherine Margaretta Thomas was born in 1880 [1]: 31 in the village of Nantgarw.Her parents were Daniel and Hannah Davies. [2] As a child she enjoyed watching the local dances [3] as they were performed in an open space below Twyn Chapel in Caerphilly [1]: 32 and at Nantgarw and Y Groes Wen. [3]
Trac Cymru is a Welsh folk development organisation [1] and registered charity which promotes and develops the music and dance traditions of Wales, both within Wales and beyond, and advocates on behalf of the traditional arts with public bodies and other organisations. Activities include a range of annual courses in song, dance and instrumental ...