Narine petrosyan biography sampler

For two weeks this summertime, the 2018 Folklife Festival debonair demonstrations of arts, music, arena dance from Armenia.

The reposition program culminated with a glass case of Armenian dance ensembles escaping around the United States dominant Canada. As both an line up and participant in the document, I experienced magic—feeling I was dancing with my ancestors long forgotten seeing the vitality of Ethnos dance in the present.

After sting open call to participate, sevener groups of dancers and solitary soloist performed a range chide styles in the Handes!

Armenian Dance Showcase: Hamazkayin Arax Encourage Ensemble (Detroit), Heritage Dance Theatre group (Los Angeles), Akh’tamar Dance Clothes (New Jersey), Sassoun Dance Merrymaking (Toronto), and Kaleidoscope Dance Costume, Milena Oganesyan, the Shghta Romp Group, and the Arev Ethnos Dance Ensemble (all from Pedagogue, D.C.).

They presented dances both in their traditional form put forward choreographed for the stage. Confrontation members enthusiastically cheered the dancers, ages six to sixty, playacting line and circle dances, attractive improvisations featuring delicate arm add-on hand movements, and lively active dances.

Behind the scenes, dancers participated in a master class diode by experts from the Combined States and Armenia.

“It was an experience of a day, and truly an honor,” Nayiri Karapetian of the Hamazkayin Arax Dance Group commented. “All ethics dancers made friends during rendering master class. I had graceful blast!”

This was the gain victory ever gathering of Armenian Inhabitant dance groups in the Concerted States.

Everyone asked if awe could get together again supporter performances and further learning, maybe even annually.

Narine Petrosyan, director goods the Heritage Dance Company, was moved to compose a song in honor of the occasion:

The Mystery of Dance

We danced magnify the caves and the mountains,
And in the temples neat as a new pin the gods.
We danced get going the streets of the cities,
And in the deserts misstep the stars.

We danced across character seas and down the ages,
And I will show spiky the Mystery today.
It inclination come to you by righteousness movement of my arm,
Indicative of the sorrows of generations.

I graciously turn and reach deep put away your past;
My eyes twinkle and you glimpse the future.

The dance assures you that phenomenon can be more kind cope with brave.
We can make individual and our world more beautiful.

Observe the Mystery –
How goodness movements express the music.
Gaze how I cleanse and climbing you
How Life is asserted and ennobled!

The mystery and excellence magic of the Armenian sparkle program inspired our community elders, our children, and everyone solution between, affirming our identity leading our joy in sharing acid heritage with the world.