For the clubs “It’s us! – songs and dances” from all the partner schools, the month of April 2019 was dedicated to the topic “Recreating an ancestral ritual”. The objectives of their activities were sharing rituals and traditions from their countries, and preparing an ancestral ritual to be performed during the exchange visit scheduled to take place in Tukey in May 2019.
The pupils from Istituto Comprensivo “Giovanni Pierluigi” Palestrina from Palestrina (Italy) researched the topic of ancestral rituals and chose the Taranta dance from the region of Puglia.
Dressed in gorgeous folk costumes, the members of the club from Liceul Tehnologic “Mihai Eminescu” Dumbrăveni (Romania) visited the Bukovina Village Museum from Suceava, where they discovered traditions, customs and songs associated with important events in a person’s life, known as rites of passage, which are recreated in the old peasant houses from the museum.
The pupils from Şehit Ali Aksoy Ortaokulu from Akhisar (Turkey) were informed about the topic “Recreating an ancestral ritual” and discussed about rituals, folklore and respect for diversity. Afterwards, they researched and practised the traditional folk dance called Zeybek.
The members of the club “It’s us! – songs and dances” from Agrupamento de Escolas de Samora Correia from Samora Correia (Portugal) performed an ancestral Portuguese dance.
