(14 Mar 2025)
ALBANIA FLASHMOB
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tirana, Albania – 14 March 2025
1. Various of a man in folk costume entering terminal at Tiran Airport, beating the tupani, a traditional Albanian drum
2. People use their cell phones to film the tupanxhi, or the drummer
3. Various of young Albanians in folk costumes dancing
4. People filming the dancing
5. Various of young Albanians in folk costumes dancing
6. SOUNDBITE (Albanian) Shpresart Memia, a choreographer and leader of the dancing group:
“K’cimi i Tropojes is born among the people. It is not a choreographic dancing. We choreographers from Tropoja are very lucky because K’cimi i Tropojes has many different variants, it has many variants in itself and may create different choreographies, like they have been done since the 1970s to nowadays and more in the future due to its rich variations. Because the men’s dancing has its own diversity, its own variants. It is epic. While the girls’ dancing takes variants from all areas of the Tropoja region.”
7. Girls dancing
8. SOUNDBITE (Albanian) Serena Leka, Albanian now a resident in Denmark,
“It was a very nice surprise for us. We leave Albania so many times as we live abroad, and it seemed to us as if we were greeted with the culture of many years ago. It was so nice to see the young generation perform for everyone at the airport terminal with so much desire and goodwill and pleasure, for those leaving and for others arriving. It’s very good work. It has values and traditions which Albania should be grateful for and introduce to the whole world, traditions which those of us living abroad would be very pleased to introduce too.”
9. Various of people filming the dancing
10. Various of dancing
11. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Tina Balducci, from Bari, Italy,
“I liked everything. The children were fantastic, fantastic. It is good to preserve the traditions. I too try to preserve traditions whether it’s in the environment of the house, in the country, the cooking.”
12. Close of cell phone filming the the dancing
13. Wide of dancing
14. People filming the dancing
15. SOUNDBITE (Albanian) Ergita Haluci, 18, one of the dancers:
“As you may know, the K’cimi i Tropojes is a very good part of the Albanian heritage and has entered UNESCO’s (heritage) list. As youngsters we are trying to preserve it and pass it from generation to generation. It is a very beautiful mission and an experience that you can hardly describe in words. Many people contributed to get the dancing entered onto the UNESCO (list) and our generation luckily has seen and touched such a beautiful mission. K’cimi i Tropojes is as if you touch the sky with your hand. It’s an emotion. It’s a beautiful feeling. I have no words (to express it). It’s pride.”
16. Wide of people filming the dancing
17. Various of dancing
18. People applauding and whistling at the end of the dancing
19. SOUNDBITE (Albanian) Shpresart Memia, a choreographer and leader of the dancing group:
“There is a global expression that art is the passport of each nation. Because politics exists here and in each country. Mountains and fields too, seas. Whoever takes more tourists, whoever promotes tourism more, that’s part of marketing. But marketing is not included in UNESCO. It is the dancing, songs, musical instruments and those should be preserved by the government.”
20. Dancers posing for a photo after the performance
21. Banner reading “North Star, Creative Movement,” the logo of the project of a non-governmental organization promoting various hobbies among the young people
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