Armenian traditional dance teacher course

2023 - 2024

International certified course provided by Gagik Ginosyan and his daughter Tzovinar Ginosyan, course with translation in French and English as well as training documents will be available in French and English. The training is certified by the Armenian folk dance company of Gagik Ginosyan (Karin) in Yerevan, Armenia and the International Dance Council (IDC).

Course in 3 modules

150 hours + examen + Festival

Price: 2250 euros + 150 euros for registration

Information and contact : arkadanse@outlook.fr

Gagik Ginosyan biography

Gagik Ginosyan

Armenian dance specialist, ethnographer, founder and artistic director of the ''Karin Folk Song and Dance Ensemble''. A prominent worker of Armenian culture and a prominent figure in the culture of the city of Yerevan, he was honored:

  • in 2011 as "Honored Worker of Culture of the Republic of Armenia"

  • in 2013 "Honored Worker of Culture of Yerevan"

  • in 2017 he received the gold medal from the Ministry of Education and Science

Gagik Ginosyan is the founder and artistic director of folk song and dance ensembles Karin and Tsovak (since 2001). Since 2005, he organizes monthly dance classes accessible to the public with the Karin Ensemble.

Gagik Ginosyan is the author of the first Armenian dance tutorial on DVD titled ''Armenian Dance'', which aired on the TV show Armenian Knight (2008).

Since 2014, Gagik Ginosyan has been working on integrating the national discipline of song and dance into the curricula of ordinary schools in Armenia.

In 2015, together with the Ayb Foundation, Gagik Ginosyan founded the National Academy of Song and Dance. Ginosyan works on the development of research and theoretical studies on Armenian folk dances.

Gagik Ginosyan worked to highlight Komitas' folk dance heritage to introduce it to the public and disseminate Komitas' work in ethnomusicology.

Gagik Ginosyan's experience as a trainer and researcher

  • 1987-2000 | Dancer

“Van” folk dance and song group founded by Hayrik Mouradyan and “Akunq” founded by Maro Mouradyan

  • 1997 - 2022 | Folklore collector

Collected more than 200 Armenian traditional dances

  • 2001 - 2022 | Dancer

“Karin” folk song and dance group

  • 2001 - 2022 | Founder and artistic director

“Karin” folk song and dance group and “Tsovak” youth folk song and dance group

  • 2001 - 2022 | Teacher of Armenian folk dances

Cultural centre of RA Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport

  • 2005 - 2022 | Founder and curator

“Mer parery ev menq” (We and our dances) open workshops of traditional Armenian dances

  • 2008 | Founder

First DVD-dancing classes for “Hay Aspet” (Armenian Knight) educational foundation

  • 2010 - 2011 | Folklore collector

“Dardz Y’armats” (Back to the roots) project with US ambassy cultural preservation program more than 20 unrecorded dances have been saved

  • 2011 - 2022 | Teacher of Armenian folk dances

“Ayb” school

  • 2012 - 2022 | Professor of Armenian folk dances

Yerevan State Institut of Theatre and Cinematography

  • 2014 - 2022 | Founder and chef trainer

“Armenian traditional dance and song” school subject program

  • 2014 - 2022 | Co-founder, chairman of the board of trustees and trainer NSDA (National Song and Dance Academy) teacher training for school subject “Folk dance and song” (more than 400 schools are involved now)

  • 2016 - 2022 | Member of UNESCO CID (International Dance Concil)

Held reports and lectures in Greece, Russian Federation, Armenia and after the Covid-19 in online seminars

  • 2018 | Author

“Parq Banakats” (Dances of army) book-dancing video classes of Armenian folk military dances with “Jinishyan” foundation

  • 2016-2017 | Author and participant

“Us Usi” (Shoulder on shoulder) program TV dancing classes on Public TV company (more than 50 dances were performed)

  • 2013-2014 | Founder of digital version of dance recording system “Kaqavagir” digital version of Kinetographics (movement recording system) which was founded in 1940s by Srbuhi Lisitsyan with “Instigate” CJSC (more than 12 dances now have their kinetographics)

Founder and scriptwriter of “Ethnography theatre”

  • 2007 “Hayots ergi hayriky” (Father of Armenian song) performace with Karin folk dance and song group

  • 2007 “Khnkahot Ergir” (Frankincense smell of the county) performace with Karin folk dance and song

  • group

  • 2009 “Varq Hayots” (Armenian Biography) performace with Karin folk dance and song group

  • 2014 “Khach Paterazmi” (Cross of War) performace with motives of armenian epic named “Daredevils of

  • Sassoun” with Karin folk dance and song group

  • 2019 - 2020 “Ghoghanj Harsanekan” (wedding ritual) performace by the poem “Anlreli Zangakatun” Paruyr Sevak) with Karin folk dance and song group

Participations in different movies

  • 2005 “Ukhtagnatsutyun Ergov” (Pilgrimage with song) musical movie co-author

  • 2005 “Sasna Tsrer” (Daredevils of Sassoun) video story co-author

  • 2012 “From Ararat to Europe” screenwriter

  • 2016 “Qochari” (UNESCO inscribed folk dance Qochari as Armenian Intangible cultural heritage and a

  • film about it was screened) documentary films screenwriter

  • 2020-2021 “Zark” (Impact) festival film series general counsel

State Awards

  • 2011 “Honored Worker of Culture of Republic of Armenia”

  • 2013 “Honored Worker of Culture of Yerevan”

  • 2017 Golden Medal of Ministry of Education and Science

Trips and participation in international festivals

  • 1991 Festival in Romania with “Akunq” folk dance and song group

  • 1996 Festival in Italy with “Akunq” folk dance and song group

  • 1999 Festival in Croatia with “Akunq” folk dance and song group

  • Since 2010 have travelled as dance collector, lecturer, teacher and dance director to Iran, Syria, USA (Los Angeles, Fresno, Boston, New York), Lebanon, UK, the Netherlands, Russian Federation, Georgia, Belgium, France

  • 2010/2013/2018 Concerts in Iran with “Karin” folk dance and song group

  • 2011 14th “The World Folk Dance Festival” contest-festival in Spain with “Karin” folk dance and song group, won 1st place in nomination dance

  • 2012 Concerts in United States with “Karin” folk dance and song group

  • 2012 Festival in Turkmenistan with “Tsovak” youth folk dance and song group, won 3rd place

  • 2013 Concerts in the Netherlands with “Karin” folk dance and song group

  • 2013, 2014 Festival of national minorities in Turkey with “Karin” folk dance and song group

  • 2017, 2019 Festival “Strada Armeniasca” in Romania with “Karin” folk dance and song group

  • 2018 Festival-contest “Mandorlo in Fiore” in Italy with “Karin” folk dance and song group, won 3rd place

  • 2019 World contest of folklore in Saudi Arabi with “Karin” folk dance and song group, “Terian” cultural center, “Megerian Carpet” center, won Grand Prix in nomination “Eco Home”

  • 2019 Festival “Sea Sun” in Lietuva with “Karin” folk dance and song group

  • 2019 Armenian days in Crimea in Russia with “Karin” folk dance and song group

Tsovinar Ginosyan

Professional experience

  • 2011 - 2022 | Dancer “Karin” folk song and dance group

  • 2005 - 2022 | trainer “Mer parery ev menq” (We and our dances) open workshops of traditional Armenian dances

  • 2016 - 2017 | Volunteering teacher of Armenian folk dances in the School in Ayntap

  • 2017-2018 | Teacher of Armenian folk dances “Armenian traditional dance and song” school subject program in school number 40

  • 2016-2017 | Participant of “Us Usi” (Shoulder on shoulder) program TV dancing classes on Public TV company (more than 50 dances were performed)

Participant in performances of “Ethnography theatre”

  • 2007 “Hayots ergi hayriky” (Father of Armenian song) performace with Karin folk dance and song group

  • 2014 “Khach Paterazmi” (Cross of War) performace with motives of armenian epic named “Daredevils of Sassoun” with Karin folk dance and song group

  • 2019 - 2020 “Ghoghanj Harsanekan” (wedding ritual) performace by the poem “Anlreli Zangakatun” Paruyr Sevak) with Karin folk dance and song group

Trips

      • 2013, 2014 Festival of national minorities in Turkey with “Karin” folk dance and song group

      • 2016 Workshop “European architecture students assebly” in Lithuania (as an architect)

      • 2017 Workshop “Tyumen city historical center renovation” in Russia (as an architect)

      • 2017, 2019 Festival “Strada Armeniasca” in Romania with “Karin” folk dance and song group\

      • 2018 Workshop “Project de reconstruction du territoire urbain adjacent au musée des frères Orbely à Tsaghkadzor” in France (as an architect)

      • 2018 Concerts in Iran with “Karin” folk dance and song group

      • 2018 Festival-contest “Mandorlo in Fiore” in Italy with “Karin” folk dance and song group, won 3rd place

      • 2019 Festival “Sea Sun” in Lietuva with “Karin” folk dance and song group

Éducation

      • 2014-2016 IFA-DFI (French-German Superior Institute of Engineering in Armenia) faculty of architecture and design (barchelor degree)

      • 2016-2019 NUACA (National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia) faculty of architecture (barchelor degree)

      • 2019-2021 NUACA (National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia) faculty of architecture (barchelor degree)

Langues: arménien (maternel), russe (courant), anglais (avancé), Français

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