Talk:Kurdish dance

I'm not very familiar with the editing features in Wikipedia, but the link to "chepi" on this site leads to a stub article that has nothing to do with the Kurdish Dance (this Chepi comes from the word chep, meaning left). I don't know how to correctly redirect the link, so someone (possibly an administrator) who knows what they are doing should do this).


 * Yes it is by accident. Sometimes some words have more than one meaning. The link should be corrected. Jalalarbil 16:37, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Can someone tell me the name of the kurdish song you dance Chapi or Chepi with? Holding hands and going in the circle? Even better if I could get a link, thanks! :) (IF POSSIBLE)

Wikification
I have just completed some wikification in an attempt to get this article moving forward. I also cleaned up some spelling and grammar. I am not an expert on this subject, so I cannot help much more on the content end of things. I hope this is a (small) help. Best of luck! LonelyBeacon (talk) 02:39, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Salvarbasti
add please —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.153.54.195 (talk) 17:46, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Mixed-gender

 * Its noteworthy that these folkloric dances are mixed-gender which distinguishes the Kurds from other neighboring Muslim populations.

This extraordinary claim is cited to a source from 1986. However, it seems highly unlikely that this is still true given the fundamentalist influence of the last 34 years. I just spent the last hour watching Kurdish dances on YouTube and didn't find an example of mixed-genders dancing. I will tag this claim as out of date. Viriditas (talk) 01:35, 23 November 2020 (UTC)


 * I'm Kurdish and we dance mixed gender. It's not out of date. Please see this news article about Iran shutting down a Kurdish sports center because the Kurds were dancing mixed gender as an updated source. It was published in 2023. A lot of Muslim countries don't allow mixed gender dances, however we Kurds dance together.
 * https://kurdistanhumanrights.org/en/news/2023/03/06/iran-shuts-down-sports-centre-over-mixed-gender-kurdish-dance/ 70.29.14.5 (talk) 07:11, 16 September 2023 (UTC)