SAMSUN MÜBADİL TOPLUMLARINDA OYUN GELENEĞİ

This paper, contains limited information on the dance culture of two exchange communities who came from Kavala and Thessaloniki in Greece and placed around the city of Samsun in Turkey by the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923. The most distinctive property that differentiates the dances of the exchangees from Haci Ismail and Alacam districts connected to Canik town from other local dances is the traditional hora and karsilama type exchangee dances performed in weddings in accompaniment of the davul and zurna. When we consider Samsun exchangee dance performances from a formal point of view, a slow sequence towards fast dances in terms of tempo (rhythm and speed in the structure of the figure) is seen. At the same time, an increase in the tempo according to the dancers’ and musicians’ communication is seen in a dance. The traditional dance culture, which has been kept alive by Samsun exchange societies, has contributed to the further enrichment of local cultural treasure by adding diversity to the region's traditional dance culture.