sports dictionary Dance sports - GITANA

Dance sports GITANA (Spanish: gitana "gypsy girl") gypsy dance. Sample of M. Ravels play "The Gypsy Girl", a play by F. The Gitana Cruiser. Amid the bustle of the dance, the sounds of castanets and tambourines, a murmur of praise arose, extolling the beauty and charm of the gypsy girl... (m. Cervantes. The gypsy girl); Took Presyosas tambourine, and they spun around, weaving and unraveling the dance figures with such freedom and grace that everyone watching began to follow their feet, especially Andres, who was a paradise for him to look at (ibid.); She (Esmeralda) danced to the rumble of the tambourine, which her roundish legs were playing with. her virgin arms hung high above her head. Thin, fragile, with bare shoulders and slender legs occasionally flashing from under the skirt, black-haired, fast ... she truly seemed an unearthly creature (V. Hugo. Notre-Dame de Paris); Once proud and haughty, Now I am in paradise with a gypsy woman, And I humbly ask her: "Dance, gypsy, my life." And the terrible dance lasts for a long time, And life passes before me, A Mad, sleepy and beautiful, And disgusting dream… Then it spins around, throwing up its arms, then crawls like a snake, and suddenly Everything froze in a languor of boredom, And the tambourine falls from its hands ... (A. Blok. Once proud and haughty).