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The Society of Folk Dance Historians (SFDH) Pevano kolo
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BACKGROUND
Information: A dance.
Translation: Singing kolo
Pronunciation: PEH-va-no KO-lo
Region: Bizovac village, Slavonija, Croatia.
Meter: 2/4
Music: Nonesuch Explorer H-72042, "Village Music of Jugoslavija" collected and produced by Martin "Marty" Koenig, early 1970s, from the Zagreb Smotra, with slow and fast parts in 2/4.
Note: Mark Forry recorded this at the 1981 Zagreb Smotra with the slow part changed to 7/8 because the dancers possibly liked Macedonian rhythms heard at an earlier Smotra.
THE DANCE
- Part 1: Dance slow "kolo" steps (step-close, step-close to left, and back the other way), to the slow, singing music.
- Part 2: Dance fast side-steps during the instrumental part, in a "sevens" pattern: step-close, step-close, step-close, step. Again, starting to left. But the group may have fun with the fast part, some dancing (diagonally) into the center and back out.
THE SONG
- A bečarac (improvised topical, humorous, even naughty couplet). The musical interlude allows the dancers to devise additional couplets. A dancer will begin to sing when they have a couplet prepared, interrupting the musicians (tamburaši).
DOCUMENTS
- Croatia, a country.
- Martin Koenig, an article.
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