Concours de danse bretonne : Finale Gavotte Poher 2015 à Menez Meur avec Martin/Le Meur (ton simple) 

vous regardez ces vidéos sur la musique et les danses traditionnelles vous avez fait le bon choix: c'est l'âme de la Bretagne. vous êtes la bien venue dans notre région ! cordialement

Marine Farhat oui super riche musique danses superbes j aime ces rytmes

Venez plutôt faire un petit tour chez nous :)

Hypnotic: you used the right word. As this dance like other collective ones come from past rural civilization, they naturally reinforced the social cohesion of the local peasant community. This has been studied in particular by J.M. Guilcher who showed that the original collective dancing mode (closed circle, same gesture ...) has been preserved till mid 20th century (and even later) in the less "modern" areas where the notion of group was still strong. In more advanced ones (economically speaking), rural dances had become to open (open chain instead of closed circle) and to converge to dances by couples. Quite in parrallel to non rural dances (by two then alone) and quite illustrative of the more general human being evolution towards individualism.

In rural Brittany as elsewhere, dances were most of the time organized for fun, on special occasions or following the usual numerous christian festivals. But they would also often mix pleasure and duty, for the dancers were essential to press down the new soil of a house or a new threshing floor in the farmyard. A farmer invited his neighbours for a party, supplied them with drinks and food, generally after work, at night ( hence the name of "fest noz" ) and he got a new soil in exchange ! But by using the expressions " hypnotic" and "social cohesion" you prove @MrJsavo, that you have already perfectly understood the heart of the breton dance.

Yeah, there are two parts in Brittany, the coast and the "mountains" (385m). The coast people dance for fun. We in the mountains dance to get our rocks off, reach a kind of trance and this is a mountain dance (watch a plinn, that's another hypnotic one). It is fun to some extent, but there is more. when I was part of a cercle celtique, we would get into these battles with the musicians (called sonneurs): they played, we danced, they wanted us to fall exhausted, but we wanted them to get exhausted first. We could do this sort of step for 30 min. It is very tense, and on the next day...your calves are killing you. Anyway, yes, you move like one body, yet, at the same time, you will notice all the slightly different styles, and the judges have to decide who does it best. Here is a nice plin for you. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Eu7fvGPEEiI.html now...will you still be around to reply 7 years down the line?

@annepoitrineau5650 I watched a huge dance in a field near carnac in 1999 late one summer evening and was enchanted by the involvement of every age group (e,ccept infants of course) . The circle kept kept getting bigger as more & more joined in. The circle moved around. I forget if it was clockwise or otherwise very slowly, like one step one way & 2 th other way while on one of those steps each person turned to face the next person on one side & on next step, turned to face the person on the other side. From what I can remember, a half circle appeared on the outside and, not sure here, but I think it went in the opposite direction. Think I spent hours watching it while sampling indulging in very cheap wine served from 2 or so kiosks in an open area.

@@MrJsavo We go clockwise (Kurds hve similar dance and go the other way :) ) Yes, in big events like that, enterprising people will create other circles to face the others. It is very hypnotic. I love it. And as you wrote, everybody jins in, any age, any colour (Bretons have a history of marrying people form the colonies, this has given me a Vietnamese as well as a Northern African Jewish great grand mother). This is sthg I really love about breton culture. :) (I do not drink...thanks to my Vietnamese great gandmother: Asian flush :D)

oui, scandaleux. Ils ne vont pas gagner :D

Si c'est la 223: elle est tres petite, bien plus que ses voisins, c'est dur pour elle d'avoir les bras bien accroches.