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The Lola Folklore School was established in the aim of pupils learning the basic folklore elements (leg, arm and body movement) and the basic vocabulary used to explain steps and movements. The pupils are children of school age (from eight years old) who have little or no experience of this kind of art.
In the folklore school children learn, while listening to music, to feel the rhythm and harmonise their dancing moves. The pedagogical and cultural education of pupils (especially small children) in their behaviour towards their teachers, society and the surroundings in which they work and live is particularly important. The school program is designed so that children learn the basic rhythms through dance and through those rhythms learn easier steps, practice full body movement, learn the authentic songs which accompany their dance (in that way combining dance with song) as well as to breathe properly while dancing and to strengthen and prepare their bodies for further, greater efforts when they move to the older groups.
While dancing they become good friends, learn to dance and to get used to each other. It is particularly important that boys get used to girls and vice versa which is, at their age, a very difficult and slow process.
After completing the folklore school (at the end of the school year) those children who have satisfied the criteria set by the commission for auditions, move up to the older group (the advanced folklore school).
At the end of the one year course a concert is organised where the children show their skills before their parents, relatives and friends. Occasionally tours abroad are organised (previous groups went to Bulgaria three times and once to Greece) and expenses are covered by parents.
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