Some 100 overseas college students from 72 totally different international locations finding out at Bartin College in northern Türkiye study Anatolian tradition via people dances particular to the area.
Entertaining coaching supplied by instructors within the youth heart affiliated with the college takes place as soon as every week and has continued for the reason that starting of the 12 months, reported Anadolu Company (AA).
The scholars attending the lessons on the People Dances Schooling Middle and Youth Middle study in regards to the native “div div” recreation of Bartin in addition to conventional people dances such because the halay, horon and zeybek.
Chatting with AA, Ahmet Akerdoğan, a coach on the heart, famous he started to work on the heart upon the college officers’ request, highlighting he accepted the request with nice pleasure.
“As you understand, people dances mirror the life, tradition and historical past of the (particular) area. We confirmed our lovely motif of zeybek, one of many conventional people dances of Anatolia, the halay that may be performed wherever, and the horon, which represents the Black Sea,” Akerdoğan defined.
Emphasizing that the scholars have been happy with the programs, Akerdoğan expressed his perception that the visitor college students will reward Turkish people dances after they return to their international locations. He additionally added the scholars’ efficiency shocked him as they’d realized the fundamentals of dances in a really quick whereas.
“Kids are very acquainted with our music and play it with their coronary heart, they’ve expertise. We are able to current the work to our college students in a interval of two months. Which means that our Turkish motifs and our Anatolian custom have unfold from Asia to Africa. This makes me very completely satisfied,” he defined.
Amir Yeltayev, an 18-year-old scholar from Kazakhstan, stated that he preferred Anatolian people dances and had a enjoyable time on the heart.
Equally, 20-year-old Odamboy Jumaniyozov, who got here from Uzbekistan, acknowledged that he was happy with the programs.
Professor Orhan Uzun, the rector of Bartvin College, stated that they apply the best studying strategies that may facilitate the combination of overseas college students of their new environment.
“We see our worldwide college students, as an vital element of the Bartin College household, not as foreigners or friends, however as people who will make clear the long run,” Uzun stated.
“We offer them with a studying atmosphere that isn’t restricted to programs so as to get to know our historic tradition, sustain with their social atmosphere and obtain success,” he added noting that he actually believes in seeing the scholars as graduates and certified people who will add worth to humanity and the place they’re residing in, alongside being voluntary envoys of Türkiye.