DETERMINATION OF TRADITIONAL WOMEN'S DANCES IN IZMIR PROVINCE
Project no. 308 · Status: Kapanmış · 2017
Summary
The softened forms of zeybek dances by women and girls are called Women's Dance or Woman Zeybek-Woman Zeybek Dances in Aegean region (Demirsipahi, 1975, s. 351). This study focuses on zeybek type of women's dances in the traditional Izmir dance culture. The region of the research is limited to the provincial center of Izmir, Menemen, Bergama, Ödemiş and Cumaovası districts. Considering that the dance is shaped by cultural life and that the culture it belongs to dances an active role throughout the process from the production of the dance to its consumption, it has been deemed appropriate to examine the female dance performances together with the cultural structure and context characteristics to which they belong. As a result of the field studies carried out in the determined regions, how the tradition of women's dance is maintained today, the similarities of the dances throughout the province, as well as the local diversity they have, were determined, analyzed, compared and classified. In this study, traditional women's dances in İzmir province; Its rules, types, time and space structure, arrangement, material and personal conditions in the organization of dance events, dance and music repertoire, instruments used, musician identities are examined in the context. With the examination of traditional women's dances, it is aimed to contribute to the existing knowledge of Izmir province dance tradition. Keywords: Woman zeybek, İzmir women's dances, Traditional women's dances.