Goddess Dance

Kaşık Oyunu (Spoon Dance)

 

the most popular dance in Central Anatolia.  Dancers carry in each hand, a pair of varnished wooden spoons, one of which is inserted between thumb and forefinger and the other between the middle and rng finger- in this position they are clicked like castanets.  The dancer treads with very small steps in a confined space while undulating the lower part of the body.  Another wellknown spoon dance is from Bolu.  The dancers start by saluting the onlookers.  This salute  consists of crouching, touching their spoonsfirst on the ground then on their chins and then on their foreheads.  Then the dancers face eacch other in pairs, they approach, recede, kneel and turn