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The Schuhplattler is a traditional style of folk dance popular in the Alpine regions of Bavaria and Tyrol (southern Germany, Austria and the German speaking regions of northern Italy). In this dance, the performers stomp, clap and strike the soles of their shoes (Schuhe), thighs and knees with their hands held flat (platt). There are more than 150 basic Schuhplattlers, as well as marches and acrobatic feats that are often interspersed with the basic dance in performance. They may be seen today in Europe and in German immigrant communities around the world. While the Schuhplattler is still largely performed by adults, it has become increasingly popular with youngsters, who love its colorful costumes and its bouncing, leaping, kicking and choreographed horseplay. == History and style == The Schuhplattler is thought to date from Neolithic times, about 3000 BC,〔Homer, Trevor. Book of Origins, Penguin Books, 2007.〕 but it is first of record in 1030 AD, when a monk in the Tegernsee Abbey of Bavaria described a village dance containing leaps and hand gestures.〔Hegenbarth, Franz. Auf Geht's: Das Buch übers Scuhplatteln, Verlagsanstalt Bayerland, 1990, p. 25.〕 Over the centuries, the form gradually evolved as farmers, hunters, and woodsmen practiced it in the isolated towns and villages of the Bavarian and Tyrolean Alps.〔Hegenbarth, p. 13.〕 Sometimes it was performed as a partner dance, with couples doing a Ländler and then splitting up so the girls could twirl in their colorful dirndls as the boys showed off their "platteln." At other times it was just the boys onstage, arranged in a circle, a square or a line, plattling wildly for the audience. These two approaches are sometimes distinguished as the Schuhplattlertanz and Schuhplattler proper, but it is the "boys' dance" that is at the core of both forms and is most often described.〔Hegenbarth, pp. 14, 68-74. See also Richard Wolfram, Die Volkstänze und Verwandte Tänze in Europa, O. Muller, 1951, p. 190; and Gerhard Maier, Miesbach – Wiege der Trachtenbewegung, Verlag Miesbacher, 1976.〕 The immediate precursors of today's Schuhplatter were the 18th century Minuet, Quadrille and Française, but unlike these courtly and highly stylized dances, the early plattlers of the common folk were free of rules. The young men improvised their leaps, stomps, and acrobatic figures "as it struck their fancy."〔Lipowsky, Felix Joseph. Sammlung Bayerischer National-Costüme. Hermann & Barth, 1820.〕 Acrobatics were an important part of the dance at least by the 1820s, when boys began balancing on the shoulders of their partners and stamping their feet rhythmically on the ceiling!〔Jahrbuch des Österreichischen Volksliedwerkes, vol. 56, 2007, p. 103.〕 Early Schuhplattlers often highlighted the towns where they were invented or imitated the various professions of the performers, such as the Mühlradl (Miller's Dance), the Holzhacker (wood cutter), and the Glockenplattler (Bell Dance). The music was generally in three-quarter time, like the Ländler, and was performed on the zither or the guitar, and by 1830s, the accordion or concertina. In 1838, the Empress of Russia was honored with a Schuhplattler by the residents of the bath town of Wildbad Kreuth,〔Hegenbarth, p. 49.〕 and the aristocracy, fascinated by the strange costumes and quaint pursuits of the common folk, began taking an interest in the dance. Many consider the real birth of the modern Schuhplattler, however, to be Bavarian King Maximilian's excursion through the Alps in 1858, when locals performed the dance for him, and he fell in love with it.〔Hegenbarth, pp. 51, 71, 75-76.〕 In 1886 the French traveler Hugues Krafft wrote of the Schuhplattler: ::On Sundays and holidays one sees couples dancing to music on larger town squares everywhere — preferably the Ländler, a leisurely waltz popular among girls and boys . The biggest attraction, however, even for the local farmers, is always the Schuhplatter. It ... begins with forming a circle. Then, while the girl is briefly separated from her partner and continues to follow waltz steps, the boy must perform a number of difficult movements to the beat of the music. He turns around on his axis, slaps his thighs and legs, falls to his knees, jumps in the air and throws his hat as he lets out a joyful whoop... Those who master the dance are cheered with vigorous applause.〔Spangenberg, Marcus, and Sacha Wiedenmann (Hrsg.) 1886. Bayern und die Schlösser König Ludwigs II. aus der Sicht von Hugues Krafft / 1886, Verlag Schnell und Steiner, Regensburg 2011, p. 48.〕 By the late 19th century, traditional costume clubs (''Trachtenvereine'') were being established throughout Bavaria and Tyrol, and soon these groups spread to German communities in America and elsewhere. Since the mission of these clubs was to preserve the age-old customs, lore and dress of the German and Austrian Alps, the Schuhplattler became a central part of their programs. The Trachtenvereine were often strict and exacting about how the dance was to be performed and how club members were to dress, although new Schuhplattler groups sprang up after the second world war that were less tied to the older forms. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Schuhplattler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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