PECULIARITIES OF A VILYUI DANCE OSUOKHAI

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to identify features of a Vilyui circular dance osuokhai, which has come down to this day from the depths of centuries, requires a careful, reasonable attitude to itself. The authors argue that the ysyakh cannot be imagined without the traditional dance osuokhai, which arose in deep antiquity during the period of formation and development of the tribal and social consciousness of man and the folding of belief systems and religions. With the further development of social relations, with an increase in the volume of knowledge and the level of human self-awareness, over the centuries, the Vilyui osuokhai is enriched with new images, new content, reflecting the realities of the time of its specific creation, but its main features remain to this day. The main features of the dance are the obligatory nature of a closed circle and its course from right to left, that is, the direction of movement of the sun. The paper notes that the classical Vilyui osuokhai consists of three parts: the beginning, the main slow round dance and the energetic, fast round dance kөtүү (‘flight’).