Syrian Folklore Dabka at Expo 2020 Dubai | Traditional Music & Dance of Syria at Dubai Expo

Syria has known, through its long history, most of the kinds of folklore dances, but unfortunately those who wrote about folklore dance couldn’t write in details about this art. “The Heritage of Dabka“ a book written by the late writer “Adnan Bin Zurail“ is considered one of the most important refernces about the art of dance. Bin Zurail gives detailed information about the traditions and development of Dabka. He also shows special interest in the dance of “Samah “ as one of the old inherited kinds of body expressions, very popular in all the Syrian regions. Samah was taught as a respectable and bashful kind of dance , with deep rules, special wording of songs and ballads, tunes and rhythms. The present generation of dancers of Aleppo, learnt the Samah from Omar alBatsh, Abdulwahab Seifi, Saleh alBoshi, Adnan Mnini, Omar Aqqad and others. It has been said that men in Aleppo used to dance this kind of group dance and still do so until now. They attributed it to Sheikh A