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Kolomyika

(name derived from the town of Kolomyia). (1) A short song resembling the chastushka; a genre of Ukrainian folk poetry. It consists of a rhymed couplet or quatrain; each line has 14 syllables, with the caesura after the eighth syllable.

Zaspivaly syni hory, zashumily riky;

Zakarpattia i Ukraina ziednalys’ naviky!

The kolomyika is sung throughout the western regions of the Ukrainian SSR. T. G. Shevchenko based his tonic verse on the kolomyika, and many Ukrainian poets used its rhythmic structure, notably I. P. Kotliarevskii, O. Iu. Fed’kovich, S. V. Rudanskii, and I. Ia. Franko.

(2) A Ukrainian Hutzul folk dance accompanied by a comic song and having a 2/4 meter and a lively tempo.

REFERENCES

Ukrains’ka radians’ka narodna pisnia. L’vov, 1950.
Hrinchenko, M. O., and V. H. Khomenko. “Kolomyiky i chastushky.” In Ukrains’ka narodna poetychna tvorchist’, vol. 1. Kiev, 1958.

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The Kolomyika: Change and Diversity in Canadian Ukrainian Folk Dance.

A kolomyika is generally a circle or semicircle dance very similar to the hopak, featuring acrobatics and solo, duet, trio, and small group performances within the dance.

He also requested instructors who had taught amateur dancers, who would teach character subject dances rather than hopaks and kolomyikas, (6) and who were able to choreograph for more female than male roles, as most Canadian dance groups had more female participants than males (Mokry 1971a).

Remain true to the culture? Authenticity, identity, and Association of United Ukrainian Canadians sponsored dance seminars, 1971 to 1991

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