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The traditional music and dance culture of Central Western Bulgaria (Shopluk) is among the most preferred folklore sources for the creation of stage works. The dynamic nature of the Shopian dances, the speed of the movements, the virtuoso combinations in the chorus, the temperamental music that accompanies them, bring the potential for building colorful paintings that carry their regional exoticism on the one hand and a bravura modern music-dance language on the other. Such type of works are preferred and desired when forming the repertoire of dance groups, ensembles and schools. The current project concerns precisely this type of stage work with the working title "Bérata" - music and choreography for the repertoire of the Folklore Dance Ensemble "Zagorovche", Septemvri.
It is planned that the work will be built from three main fragments:
The first will be based on the choreographic structure and metrorhythmic profile of the "Lille, Lille" choir. The piece will be performed by an all-male dance ensemble;
The second part will interpret the music and vocabulary of the choro - "Bera" (This is the working title of the work). The fragment will be performed by the female dance group;
The third part, which is built on the basis of the most popular choro from Central Western Bulgaria "Selskoto", will unite the male and female parts of the dance team in a single finale.
The music of the work will recreate the traditions of Shopluka in a modern author's score, which will combine ancient instrumental practices and the most modern researches in the field of harmonization and instrumentation.
The work "Berrata" is intended to be a fully constructed dynamic music-dance picture, suitable for different types of concert performances of the ensemble at different times of the program.