{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.kamarinskaya","code":"thing-q1055478","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q1055478/","name":"Kamarinskaya","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Activities and processes","entryKind":"thing","plane":"ACT","domain":["ACT.ACT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"Kamarinskaya is a traditional Russian dance and associated folk tune, also the title of Mikhail Glinka's 1848 orchestral fantasy incorporating that tune.","purpose":"Enable an agent to recognise, document and compare Kamarinskaya dance instances, assess the evidence for their identification, and select appropriate material for study or performance.","scope":{"in":["Identification of a dance instance as Kamarinskaya and the evidence supporting that attribution.","Movement vocabulary, sequencing and variation in documented versions.","Coordination between dancers and the associated Kamarinskaya tune.","Differences among social dancing, staged choreography and teaching versions.","Transmission, attribution and documentation of particular versions."],"out":["Glinka's orchestral Kamarinskaya as an independently composed musical work.","Independent cataloguing and musical analysis of the folk song or instrumental tune.","Russian folk dance as a whole.","Biographies of composers, choreographers and performers.","Administration of ensembles, venues and complete concert programmes."],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Require a documented attribution to the Kamarinskaya dance tradition; a Russian costume or generic folk-dance label is insufficient.","Distinguish embodied dancing from an audio recording or score titled Kamarinskaya; the title alone does not establish a dance instance.","Check both the attributed choreography and its accompaniment; use of the Kamarinskaya tune alone does not identify the movement tradition.","Record kicks, squats or other observed movements as features of a particular version, rather than treating one familiar Russian dance movement as a sufficient identity test.","Separate a choreographer's fixed Kamarinskaya arrangement from claims about the range of traditional practice."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"kamarinskaya-identity","name":"Kamarinskaya identity","description":"Resolve what the name identifies and how a dance attribution is established.","layers":[{"id":"named-referent","name":"Named referent","description":"Separate the dance practice from its tune and composed namesakes.","findings":[{"id":"dance-referent-test","name":"Dance referent test","description":"Record whether an item describes bodily performance, musical material or an authored composition before applying this model.","questions":[{"text":"Does this use of Kamarinskaya identify dancing, a song or tune, or a particular composition?","id":"dance-referent-test-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"What original registry evidence confirms that vr.tr.kamarinskaya denotes the dance?","id":"dance-referent-test-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"attribution-evidence","name":"Attribution evidence","description":"Establish why a particular performance belongs to Kamarinskaya.","findings":[{"id":"supported-dance-attribution","name":"Supported dance attribution","description":"Preserve who identifies the dance and the evidence behind that identification, including disagreements.","questions":[{"text":"Who identifies this version as Kamarinskaya, and in which recording, description or teaching tradition?","id":"supported-dance-attribution-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What evidence distinguishes this attribution from another dance performed to the same tune?","id":"supported-dance-attribution-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"movement-realisation","name":"Movement realisation","description":"Describe how a documented Kamarinskaya version is physically performed.","layers":[{"id":"movement-vocabulary","name":"Movement vocabulary","description":"Capture visible actions and source-specific movement names.","findings":[{"id":"attested-movement-units","name":"Attested movement units","description":"Record steps, gestures, posture changes and spatial actions only where the selected version documents them.","questions":[{"text":"Which movement units can be observed or reliably reconstructed in this Kamarinskaya version?","id":"attested-movement-units-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"Which movements are described as identifying features, and which are optional embellishments?","id":"attested-movement-units-q02","kind":"definition"}]}]},{"id":"sequence-and-participation","name":"Sequence and participation","description":"Capture the organisation of dancers and the scope for variation.","findings":[{"id":"version-performance-rules","name":"Version performance rules","description":"Record formations, entrances, transitions and performer choices as rules of the documented version.","questions":[{"text":"How many dancers participate, how are they arranged, and how do their roles change?","id":"version-performance-rules-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"Which sequences must be reproduced and where may a dancer vary or improvise?","id":"version-performance-rules-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"dance-music-coordination","name":"Dance and music coordination","description":"Connect movement to the accompanying musical material and its timing.","layers":[{"id":"accompaniment-identification","name":"Accompaniment identification","description":"Identify the tune or arrangement actually used.","findings":[{"id":"tune-and-arrangement-link","name":"Tune and arrangement link","description":"Link the accompaniment to its specific source. Glinka combined the Kamarinskaya dance song with a separate wedding song, so his composition should not be treated as interchangeable with the folk tune. [Houston Symphony](https://houstonsymphony.org/glinka-kamarinskaya/).","questions":[{"text":"Which tune variant, recording or arrangement accompanies this dance instance?","id":"tune-and-arrangement-link-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Does the source establish a dance tradition, or only the use of Kamarinskaya musical material?","id":"tune-and-arrangement-link-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"timing-and-repetition","name":"Timing and repetition","description":"Inspect how musical cycles support movement and performance decisions.","findings":[{"id":"movement-music-alignment","name":"Movement and music alignment","description":"Document phrase boundaries, repeated passages and dancer responses from the actual version, leaving unobserved coordination unresolved.","questions":[{"text":"How do movement units align with beats, accents and repeated musical phrases?","id":"movement-music-alignment-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"What cues govern transitions, additional repetitions and the ending?","id":"movement-music-alignment-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"transmission-and-use","name":"Transmission and use","description":"Locate versions in their documented histories and support accountable reuse.","layers":[{"id":"version-history","name":"Version history","description":"Track the provenance and transformations of a particular version.","findings":[{"id":"documented-version-lineage","name":"Documented version lineage","description":"Record where a version was learned, collected or choreographed and distinguish reported continuity from demonstrated continuity.","questions":[{"text":"Who transmitted or created this version, where and when?","id":"documented-version-lineage-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which features are documented as inherited practice, reconstruction or choreographic additions?","id":"documented-version-lineage-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"teaching-and-adaptation","name":"Teaching and adaptation","description":"Make a selected version usable while keeping adaptations visible.","findings":[{"id":"version-specific-use-decisions","name":"Version-specific use decisions","description":"Connect teaching and rehearsal choices to the selected choreography, accompaniment and documented movement demands.","questions":[{"text":"What movement skills, space and musical cues does this version require?","id":"version-specific-use-decisions-q01","kind":"action"},{"text":"Which changes to movements, formation or tempo require the result to be labelled an adaptation of this version?","id":"version-specific-use-decisions-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"evidence-and-external-alignment","name":"Evidence and external alignment","description":"What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.","layers":[{"id":"reported-evidence","name":"Reported evidence","description":"Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.","findings":[{"id":"evidence-confidence-notes","name":"Check these first","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Kamarinskaya this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-confidence-notes-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-real-world-use","name":"Real-world use","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Kamarinskaya this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-real-world-use-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards","name":"Failure modes and hazards","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Kamarinskaya this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-neighbours","name":"Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Kamarinskaya this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-neighbours-q01","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Describe the dance, the folk tune and the orchestral fantasy from cited sources, keeping them distinct.","Credit the composer and performers."],"mustNot":["Distribute recordings in breach of copyright.","Confuse the folk dance with the orchestral work.","Use the tradition to stereotype Russian people."],"requiresHuman":["Publishing recordings."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Folk traditions carry national identity and are used in politics.","Performers' rights deserve respect."],"affectedParties":["Russian communities","Musicians","Listeners"]},"owners":{"steward":"The public: the dance and tune are held in common; rights holders answer for recordings.","roles":[],"masterSystems":[]},"relations":[{"target":"Q16693020","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.kamarinskaya","Wikidata: Q1055478 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1055478)"]},"properties":{"applicability":"not-applicable","items":["Referent classification: dance practice | dance instance | teaching version | tune or song | composed work | unresolved","Identification evidence: documented attribution | attributed without corroboration | disputed | unidentified","Version lineage: Links to named practitioners, communities, collectors, teachers or choreographers, with evidence","Accompaniment relationship: Identified Kamarinskaya tune variant | arrangement | other accompaniment | unaccompanied | unknown","Movement and sequencing profile: Source-described or observed movement units, transitions, formations and repetition rules","Sequence prescription: fixed | partly prescribed | improvised | unknown","Observed tempo: beats per minute, with beat unit and observation interval","Performance setting: social | stage | instruction | reconstruction | other documented setting | unknown"]},"recognition":{"applicability":"optional","items":["As a dance, lively male solo or group dancing with squats and stamping in folk costume.","As music, a repetitive tune with growing variations."]},"capabilities":{"applicability":"required","items":["Classify a candidate as a dance instance, associated musical item or unresolved namesake.","Compare documented Kamarinskaya versions by movement, accompaniment and transmission.","Annotate a recording with movement units, musical repetitions and dancer cues.","Select a documented version for teaching or rehearsal and identify its prerequisites.","Record adaptations and qualify claims of traditionality with their supporting evidence."]},"hazards":{"applicability":"required","items":["Knee injuries from squat-based steps.","Confusion between the folk and concert forms."]},"interfaces":{"applicability":"not-applicable","items":[]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["Kamarinskaya is encountered in Russian folk dance performance, music and dance education, and documentation of traditional culture.","Researchers and performers compare regional or staged versions using evidence about movement, musical accompaniment and transmission.","Cataloguing should distinguish a dance instance from the associated folk tune and the orchestral composition that shares its name."]}},"sources":[{"title":"Wikidata item Q1055478: Kamarinskaya","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1055478","note":"identity and sense of the item"},{"title":"Wikipedia: Kamarinskaya","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamarinskaya","note":"general description of the 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standard or classification prescribes the identity or choreography of this traditional dance."},"score":1.0}}