SWEDEN: Modern Dance

Pictures - lesson of dances in our school, students of 10th forms, teacher of choreography - Svetlana Orgmets-Brusnigina.
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Pictures - lesson of dances in our school, students of 10th forms, teacher of choreography - Svetlana Orgmets-Brusnigina.
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Dancing as a social entertainment is based on the European high society ballroom culture that started to take shape from the 12th century onwards.

Ritual dances gradually lost their meaning and dance was to provide enjoyment both to the performers and spectators. Social dance influenced and changed pleasant dance gradually, although the impact have been two-ways.
It is difficult to point out... More

The video depicts the famous Ghoomer dance .
It is performed on various auspicious occasions like fairs & festivals. It is called as `Ghoomer`, from the `ghoomna` of Ghaghra i.e. the flowing of Ghaghra, a long skirt of the Rajasthani women.

There is an amazing grace as the skirt flair slowly while the women folk twirl in circles, their faces covered with the help of the veil. The performers... More

In India, there are many dance forms, but one extremely popular form is the Bhangra.
Bhangra has found its way into every festival and celebration in was performed to celebrate the harvest season.
The Bhangra dance is an accompaniment to the Bhangra music, which is a form of folk music. It is sung in Punjabi lyrics with one person beating a hand held drum called Dhol .
The Bhangra dance itself is a... More

The video depicts the famous Garba Dance which is a dance popular among people of Gujarat.Poets compose Garba songs, which are lyrical poems sung in praise of Lord Krishna. Singing together is an invariable accompaniment of Garba. The actual dance performance begins at night and all the participants gather at the open space or at street corners. An idol or photograph of the goddess is kept in the... More

Various types of Folk Dances in India which were performed by girls of our school. More

Hello I am Dimple. I am fond of dancing. So I have prepared a presentation regarding my experience of dance. More

Folk dance festival in New Delhi - February 2010 More

Polonez, traditional Polish dance is performed by every student about 100 days before the final school exams. Great event is celebrated every year from 10 years in the center of the Wroclaw city - all students are dancing Polonez for Fredro (famous writer).   More

Polonez performed by students of IV Liceum in Wroclaw/Poland!

The Prom Bal in Poland called "studniówka" is an event for graduating students and their partners, which takes place hundred days before their Matura exam.

Before this big day, every graduating student has to learn polonez- a traditional polish dance, which is performed on every Prom. Students are dancing with partners they... More

The dance is the part of culture and can tell us pretty much about other countries. The dance is also a kind of theatre which can tell stories and has a symbolic meaning.

Project include:
- recorded movie of a folk dance / dances in own country
- presentation of some contemporary dance
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a short piece of dance have to be performed (and record) by the students:
from Asia - Polish 'Polonez'
from Europe... More

1. Living places / places for living
Students will investigate to find examples of co-existence of the nature and people in city environments. The most interesting examples the better. The subject is also to present how people try to support city animals and plants to adapt, and sometimes to survive in the best conditions for them. Moreover, students will explore city fauna and flora to... More

August 2009 - Zakopane

The 41st Zakopane Festival dates back to the second Rzeczypospolita. More

Sabah, BORNEO More

The wooden church, one of Poland's oldest, dating back to the second half of the 15th century, has found itself among a group of historic monuments on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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http://eu.cyberdusk.pl/yd/mediawiki/index.php?title=POLAND#Church_in_Debno

The church features the wooden-frame construction characteristic of the architecture of Polish highlanders, with shingled... More

Set of old historic wooden heritages, buildings connected with the culture are worth to be placed on UNESCO heritages list.

Track of Wooden Architecture

The list should open the oldest in Podhale region house, which belonged to famous person Sabala.

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http://eu.cyberdusk.pl/yd/mediawiki/index.php?title=Proposals:_Poland More

On 9th, 10th and 11th August people celebrate "San Lorenzo's nights festival" (in Italian: "sagra") in the village historical centre.

The village offers a precious setting for putting on stage scenes from Middle Ages's way of life: the blacksmiths' shop, the archers' school, the witches' hunting, the chess club, the extortion of taxes by the evil Lord's administrators, the procession of... More

Food stalls, snake charmers, storytellers, henna artists, monkeys, acrobats, medicine men, jugglers, musicians, pickpockets... the huge square of Djemaa el Fna has it all. Nights here are what cities must have been like back in mediaeval times, before television when people made their own entertainment.

Unesco have declare this square as patrimonio de la humnidad, for the oral... More

Marrakesh was founded in 1070–72 by the Almoravids. 

To the present days remained several important heritages: the Koutoubiya Mosque, the Kasbah, the battlements, monumental doors, gardens..

Moreover later monuments include the Bandiâ Palace, the Ben Youssef Madrasa, the Saadian Tombs, several great residences and Place Jamaâ El Fna, a veritable open-air theatre. More

Medina of Essaouira (formerly Mogador)

Essaouira - late-18th-century fortified town - since its foundation linked Europe to the rest part of the world.

It  is called 'white and blue city' We are presenting fortifications with canons, medina, kasba,  the port.. More

Marrakech, Essaouira, Tarudant, Tiznit, Agadir.. More

The ancient tradition of TIBET: over many centuries, the prayer ceremonies have been performed by the Tibetian Buddhist monks and nuns of the Karma Kangyu lineage, forming part of the foundation of their daily lives.. More

Polish globtrotter - teacher from Wroclaw - welcomes you to travel across TIBET. That unigue photoreportage, which has never been published before, is especially for Young Diplomats -  http://www.youngdiplomats.zsei.info/photo/thumbnails.php?album=110   More

According to the 'International Year of Astronomy 2009' http://www.astronomy2009.org/  we would like to propose the science project for young scientists in Europe and Asia.
Basis for our ideas are the objectives http://whc.unesco.org/en/activities/19

Welcome to the global celebration of astronomy and its contributions to society and culture.
‘Young Scientists - InsideCosmos' project is connected with the first International Year of Astronomy 2009 which was proclaimed by UNESCO. We would like to ‘bring the stars' to you by proposing 2 main subjects:
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I am from Hungary, a student of Saint Stephan Secondary School. Participating in the International Year of Astronomy, I have made some presentations for my school-mates after school time. These presentations were about:
Solar system
Extraterrestrials
Stars' evolution
Galaxies' types and evolution
Telescopes
About every third week there was a presentation from January to April. I was so happy to... More

It was another great success for Bangladesh Astronomical Society and the National Celebration Committee for IYA-2009 in Bangladesh to Celebrated the IYA-2009 at Bandura Holy Cross High School, which is located in a village area at about 45 Kilometers Southern pointfrom Dhaka.

Student and Teachers including the local people were unaware about the real Astronomy and its modern... More