Popular culture in the context of Turkish folk dances assessment of practice areas

The general meaning of the concept of 'popular' can be stated as the thing commonly liked and consumed. The popular thing includes everything that has a relatively short life and satisfies daily life and its needs. Today, the main factors in popularization of popular culture that gathers and leads individuals are the mass media, social virtual environments and conversion of tradition into a marketing meta. Every area from traditional to modern within the dynamics of production, reproduction and fast consumption has become daily practice of city culture. As a result of the literature review, the perception of staging created by popular culture in traditional dance, digital stimuli, innovative design supports and the perceptions of the audience (art consumer) demanding continuous change were interpreted by defining various culture layers such as folk culture, high culture, popular culture and mass culture. In the thesis, dance groups that are popular around the world, adopting an interdisciplinary understanding in dance and performing on traditional axis are briefly mentioned and the usage patterns of these audiovisual and technical effects within the communities that have a tendency for presenting the popular are presented with examples. Key Words: Popular culture, Performing Arts, Dance