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"Yohor" Buryat's singing round dance
  • Manage No, Sortation, Country, Writer ,Date, Copyright
    Manage No EE00001283
    Country Mongolia
    ICH Domain Performing Arts
    Address
    Buryat ethnic group in Selenge, Bulgan, Khuvsgul, Dornod and Khentii provinces
    Year of Designation 1928
Description Yohor, singing round dance of the Buryat ethnic group in Mongolia, the Buryat Republic of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China, is a complex phenomenon of poetry, melody, and movement. Eldest woman starts the Yohor dance. Yohor consists of three parts, in the first part, people start appealing other people to do Yohor. They say words “Yohoroo khatariya! khatarysh”. It means let’s do the Yohor dance. These signal words remind to people it’s time to dance Yohor. In the second part, people stand in circle formation holding hands and singing in a low pitch, start moving foot steps forward; or sideward steps; or backward jumps in circle path with arms gestures as moves up, down and sideward. In combination with changes of melody rhythm, the dance movements are changed into stamping, hopping, leaping, and steps are replaced by jumps. In the end of the dance, people say the word “hatariya hatarysh”.
Social and cultural significance To be identified
Transmission method by participitation in the dance and apprenticeship training
Community To be identified
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Information source
National Center for Cultural Heritage under the Ministry of Culture of Mongolia
http://www.ncch.gov.mn

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