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Tello

Azerbaijan

Tello (Azerbaijani: Tello) is an Azerbaijani national dance. It is a kind of yalli dance and is related to a female name.

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Tello (Azerbaijani: Tello) is an Azerbaijani national dance. It is a kind of yalli dance and is related to a female name. 2

Performance of the dance

Both women and men can perform this dance. The dancers hold the little fingers of each other and lift them at shoulders level. The dancing process consists of two fast parts, during which the shoulders move up and down. This dance is popular almost in all regions of Azerbaijan. 2

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Tello (dance)”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 2

Tello is Azerbaijani national dance, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 1

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