Music, song, and folk dance of Anatolia

NEW CLASS: SEMAH DANCE

Ozan Cagdas

The traditions of the ashik, the Anatolian bards whose names mean 'in love', go back to the Middle Ages. Today, this tradition is maintained by professional musicians, poets and performers who accompany their songs with various long-necked lutes: saz, divan, cura, selpe.

Chants Séfarades et arabo-andalous

Françoise Atlan

Approach the sung repertoire of the poetic and musical world of the Sephardic tradition, compared to the Arabo-Andalusian repertoire, both emblematic of the "Al Andalous" period.

Yodeling from Switzerland and elsewhere

Héloïse Fracheboud

Yodeling is the cry that becomes a melody, sometimes nostalgic and contemplative, sometimes joyful and festive, it can be "raw" as well as very sophisticated, with the same purpose: to express oneself, to share a part of what moves us, to materialize the unspeakable.