Dance Day My Land is the second grand concert of Songs Celebration It took place on July 8 in the Siemens Arena (a closed space). It was such a colourful and joyful event!
Songs Festival tradition started in 1924 in Kaunas and, as you see, it sonn will be 100-years old.
The whole history of almost 100-years old tradition is presented on the official website of Celebration's organizer.
On November 7, 2003 UNESCO has proclaimed Songs and Dance Celebrations in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
We are really proud of that!
The organizer of Song Celebration is the Lithuanian Folk Culture Centre.
And the organizer of Schoolchildren's Songs Celebration is the National M. K. Ciurlionis School of Arts.
Dance Day concert My Land (or My Earth, it depends how you evision that because Žemė in Lithuanian means the Land as well as the Earth) was just amazing!
Traditional folk dances were perfectly incorporated with ballet dances, modern dances and ballroom dances, and some 3D effects and effects shown of a big flat screen. Dances were acompannied by songs performed by children's bands from private A. Novikas Jazz School: Mini Jazz and Jazz Island. And these singing kids, in my opinion, are just absolutely tallented!
The whole concert could be found on www.lrt.lt/mediateka somwhere here.
But Im not sure if the link will properly work out.
Later, I will present some short videos made by me. :)
One of first videos. I'e called it The Universe
Samogitian folk song Pempel, Pempel sang by Jazz Island
Modern dance
Modern dance and a legendary Lithuanian song Pasveikinkim vieni kitus
Concert is comming to its end
The End
And now, you can jump to continuation of Song Celebration Part III. Esembles Evening
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