As some of you already know, I am very passionate about preserving the old Bulgarian traditions and am looking for the deeper meaning behind them. Recently, I released a video talking about the magical properties of the Shevitsi embroideries and Pendari adornment. I spent a lot of energy into it, so you can watch it here. Hope that it brings inspiration to your day.
As making videos is quite exhausting, before I continue with the next one I decided to give a small start to the next project. Just for relief. It is related to the round dance, called Horo.
The graphic that you see above took me more than a month of work. Size: 29cm. x 23,5cm. The top says "Horo" and the bottom "Unity". I will try to silk screen print it with colors, as the charm of the embroideries is in their colorfulness. Doing silkscreen printing manually with more than one color is very hard and requires precision, so wish me luck!
I will need to look for sources of information about the deeper meaning of the round dance. What I found until now is the following:
"Apart from uniting people, the dance has esoteric roots. Sometimes, in the center of the circle a bagpiper plays and the others surrounding him dance. They duplicate the Cosmic, creating an energetic model of the Solar System; thus, the musician is the Sun and the dancers are the planets. This is a powerful generator of mental, physical, biological and spiritual might for those who dance the horo."
Does your culture have the round dance? Do you have any information about its meaning? If you do, please share it with me. I am not the kind of person who takes pride in nationality, but rather look in the common roots with other cultures, to find a crossing point for unification.
All the love!
Gabchik~
