sports dictionary Dance sports
A LA SECONDE the position at which the performer is positioned en face, and the "working" leg is open to the side by 90°.
A RANCHER (in the Portuguese vowel Rancheira) (Spanish: "peasant woman", from Rancho "ranch") is an Argentine and Brazilian dance. A choreographic derivative of the mazurka. Then, at Dona Emminas birthday party, Dona Flor and the Reveller danced all sorts of sambas, foxtrots and runcheires (J. Amadou. Dona Flor and her two husbands).
ABDUCTION OF THE SABINE WOMEN ancient Roman dance. A procession with mens weapons and wild jumps.
ABEZEH (abzeh) Karachay folk pair fast dance of the Lezginka type; Balkar lyrical dance.
ACCORDION Heels together, socks apart, socks together, heels apart with the movement to the right and to the left.
ACHKUPS latvian popular folk dance. The dancers form various figures-the sun, a Christmas tree, a cross, a square, etc.
AD DERA (Arabic. "shield") is an Egyptian folk dance with a clear rhythm of drum accompaniment.
ADAGIO (from it. adagio "calmly, slowly") a slow ballet dance, solo or duet, of a lyrical nature. Three adagios in "Sleeping Beauty", the final adagio in "The Nutcracker" are the best examples of duet dance in world choreography (N. Elyash. Russian Terpsichore).
ADAJIO (adagio) slowly, smoothly includes grand plie, develop, relevelant, all types of balances, pirouettes, turns. A single bundle for 32 or 64 accounts.
ADONITIS Adonitis is an ancient Greek sacred dance in memory of Adonis. Cf. aphrodite.
ADYGHE zafak
AFGHAN ONES alhan, atan
AGUILUCHO (Spanish: Aguilucho "eaglet") is a Chilean peasant dance with features of Native American culture. The corresponding bird is shown.
AHVASH (ahwash) Moroccan mass dance with singing and playing the flute to the drums.
AJZINO ORO (ajsino oro) albanian mixed dance. Men and women dance in separate circles.
AKHTY CHAI Lezgian slow smooth dance.
AL HAGALAH (Arabic. "leaping") is a medieval Egyptian female dance.
AL KAFFAFA (Arabic. "slapping") is a medieval Egyptian folk dance. "Look, O lord, how beautiful her face is and how slender her figure is, how well she dances, how beautifully she bends and moves gracefully" ... And Marjana performed a beautiful dance, surpassing the art of dancing, and went so far as to draw a dagger that stuck in her belt and began to dance, holding the dagger in her hand As is customary among Arab dancers, and putting the tip of the dagger first to her chest, then to Ali Babas chest, or brought the blade closer to the chest of his son Muhammad, or rested it on the chest of the leader (1001 nights. Ali Baba and the Forty thieves).
AL SANANIYA (from the name of the city of Sanaa) Yemeni Arabic urban dance. The main performers are three men, with a lute and a drum. It is performed at a wedding, on a holiday, during a holiday (including indoors). Walking dancers with dance techniques. As the dance progresses, all the dancers are divided into three groups, and in each circle special movements of the hands and feet are performed, changing with the tempo of the music.
ALAHJI (from the name of the city and region) Arabic Yemeni dance. Men and women dance. The pace is fast. The dancers are lined up in a row, walking back and forth. Performed in public squares by a large number of people.
ALBANIAN COMPANIES ajzino oro, albanitika
ALBANITIKA albanian dance. The dance moves are pretentious and edgy.
ALBARA (alpara) (Arabic. "war dance") is an Arabic male martial dance (in Yemen, etc.). They dance, walking in a circle, during the dance they draw daggers. The tempo is different, and it increases as the dance progresses. They dance at weddings.
ALBEDANIA (from the name of the city of Albeda) Arabic Yemeni male dance. It is danced on holidays, at weddings to loud and sonorous music. Dancing with daggers. During the dance, performers jump over camels.
ALCATRAZ (Spanish: Alcatraz) Peruvian couple dance with flirting and eroticism. The woman has a piece of cloth between her legs, the man dances with a lighted candle, trying to set fire to this piece of cloth. If he succeeds, it means that it belongs to him.
ALEGRIAS (Spanish: alegrias "joy, fun") an old Spanish gypsy dance of a joyful nature, refined and full of dignity. A type of flamenco. Usually performed by a female soloist. Bullfight moves.
ALEIDA (Arabic. "dance of the sea") is an Arabic dance during which fishing is depicted. Performers from two to ten people imitate the waves of the sea and pulling the net. The musical accompaniment is sonorous and gentle. The pace is average. Performed near the sea on the sand.
ALEUTIAN ISLANDS саранам аягуниш, тулукызах
ALGERIAN COMPANIES ahelil, tagerrabt, dance ulad nayl
ALLA HANACCA ganak dance in Moravia (Czech Republic), similar to Polish (see), but more lively. Music size 3/4.
ALLEGRO (it. "cheerful, joyful") classical dance, a significant part of which is based on jumping and finger techniques.
ALLEMANDE (fr. allemand – "German"). The dance of the 16th and 18th centuries, as its name implies, is of German origin. Like the pavana, the allemanda is a moderate tempo and bipartite dance. This calm dance was usually followed by a lively three-bell chime. In the 18th-century clavier suite, the allemande comes first, followed by the courant, sarabande, and giga. At the end of the 18th century, the allemande was a "German dance" in the size of 3/4 or 3/8-the predecessor of the waltz.
ALLONGE, ARRONDIE the position of the rounded or elongated arm.
ALLONGEE (allange) "reaching out", the final movement of the arm, leg, torso.
ALMEZMAR ("pipe") an Arab Yemeni male dance, danced to a pipe and a ringing drum, with complex movements, twisting, jumping; rarely anyone knows how to perform it. The pace is fast.
ALTERNATE TRIBUTARIES Musical size 2/4 – 2 notes per beat. The counter is executed for every quarter.
ALYAGREK ballroom dance in the Greek style (XIX century), which quickly went out of fashion.
AMBASSI BLO is a Cameroonian festive national dance of the Douala tribe. The pace is fast. The dancers stand in a single row, shoulder to shoulder, all simultaneously moving their arms and legs while standing still. Two dancers step forward, then two others take their place, and so on.
AMBON QUADRILLE dance of Ambonians of one of the nationalities of Indonesia, as well as other Indonesians. Accompanied by a violin and ukulele.
ANAHLYA ancient Egyptian dance. It is considered a precursor to belly dancing.
ANATOLIA ancient Greek martial dance with wrestling. Type of hymnopedia (see).
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN astral dance of the zodiac, astronomical dances, star dance, wind dance, Festival of eternity dance, harvest festival dance, star dance
ANCIENT GREEK adonitis, anapolias, apokinnis, apollonias, aposesis, ascolias, aphroditis, ballet of death, bibates, blessing of seeds, blarita, bukolos, bacchanalian dance, seasons, hermesias, hylarea, gymnopedia, gingra, hyporchema, glauxia, danaidia, daphnidia, deinos, depolias, dionisia, dipodia, dipodismos, igdibm, ionic, ipoginnes, ifimb, kalabis, kalabrism, kalatiskos (kalathism), kallibs, kallinikos, karyotis, karitii, kermophoros, kibisthesis, kironomia, knosii, kometike, konisalos, kordax, creon apokope, xiphism, lamprotera, magode, menafitik, morphasma, morphamos, nymphaea, oklasmus, orai, parnassus dance, pediktos, pinakas, pyrrhic dances, pythagorean dances, hymen dance, moon dance, rope dance, four-base dance, podizi, podikri, polemic, funeral dances, riknusti, wedding dances, sybaritica, sikinnis, scopia, sobas, spondei, stoichia, dance of the Amazons, dance of the Great Mother, dance of the priestesses Demeter, dance of the corybantes, dance of innocence, dance of the necklace, dance with the serpent, dance of the satyrs, dance of the sacred triangles, dance of the sirens, dance of the grape gatherers, dance of the black sorcery, termestra, tetarra, tragic dance, falikon, Thrace, Helichelon, Horos, comic dances, Eumeleia, ekaterii, emmelia, epibema, epicredios, epifallos, erotidea, yalkade
ANCIENT MEXICAN LANGUAGES Rabinal Achi, Quetzal dance, stilt dance, old womens dance, tocotin, toxichilla, holan, holan okot
ANCIENT PERUVIAN LANGUAGES kashua, winew, hailey, chokelo, yumbo
ANCIENT ROMAN ballistics, may dance, abduction of sabine women, wedding dance, salian dances, sicinna, salian dance, satyr dance, saint vitus dance, tripudium
ANELLO (it. anello "ring") an old Italian dance. Two couples dance, one after the other, in a circle. It is similar to the English country dance of the 17th century.
ANGOLAN kaduke, massemba, rebita, semba (zemba)
ANGRIZMEN (Greek. "angry") expressive Greek dance performed by a man and a woman. The partner flirts with the partner, but she expresses disdain. The young man gives himself up to despair. At the end of the dance, they get closer, and it takes on a cheerful character.
APHRODITE aphroditis is an ancient Greek sacred dance with pantomimes representing the various love adventures of the goddess of love Aphrodite, her love for Adonis. The cult of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, was accompanied by singing and a graceful dance around the statue of the goddess to the accompaniment of lyres and flutes, performed by girls of aristocratic families, each holding a garland of flowers, which, at the end of the dance, was placed on the statue of the goddess. This circular "Aphrodite dance" was one of the most elegant and favorite in Greece, ... and ended with a pantomime on the plot of the myth of the birth of Aphrodite and her love for Adonis, under the singing of the hymn (N. Vashkevich. The history of choreography of all ages and peoples).
APOKINNIS (from the Greek apokineo "to push back") is an ancient Greek popular comic erotic dance. But when the Auletrids burst in to replace the Egyptians under the rapid peals of strings and tambourines, and began to spin, twist, and twist their hips in the apokinnis movement of the Hetaeras favorite dance of erotic courage and boldness, the power of Eros ignited the Hellenes (I. Efremov. Thais of Athens).
APOLLONIA (apollonies) an ancient Greek dance pantomime representing the adventures of Apollo. Noisy merry round dances, with torches, to the sounds of the lyre. Wed. hyporchema.
APOSESIS ancient Greek domestic obscene dance, consisting in moving the hips and taking various indecent poses. …She exchanged another glance with her mother, then walked away and came back naked, one scarf fluttering in her hand. She began to dance for Alcibiades. The light cloth alternately covered and exposed her perfect limbs, fluttered over her head like a startled bird, wrapped around the glittering girls body and the waterfall of black hair… It was no longer a priestess of Demeter it was a drunken bacchante from the retinue of Dionysus, swaying her hips invitingly... The dancers movements are bolder, she opens her arms to someone, beckons someone, and again flies away, and returns, and whirls, whirls, as if intoxicated ... (Y. Toman, M. Tomanova. Socrates).
APPLE DANCE spanish dance. Dancers dance by playing with a juicy apple, placing it on their head, throwing it in the air, which is accompanied by laughter and dancing steps.
ARABESQUE the classical dance pose, in which the foot is pulled back "toe to the floor" at 45°, 60° or 90°, the position of the torso, arms and head depends on the shape of the arabesque.
ARABIC ayyala, aleida, alahji, albedaniya, al im henna, al kaffafa, al sananiya, al siyuf, arda, dabqa, dhaka al habb, dahha, dhikr, zeffa, leywa, youth dance, muraqkah, rax arabi, samah, sama, ouanna
ARAGONESE (French: aragonaise "Aragonese") a dance popular in Aragon, the same as hota (see). Sample dance song in the Argentine movie "Fiance for Laura". But as soon as I start dancing To the castanets, my friends, I see Rodrigos amorous gaze Shining with a tender caress (Spanish song).
ARCH [ATC] arch, back arch of the torso.
ARDA (al Arda) East Arabian martial male dance. Same as Ayala. It is performed in the same way as the viola (see).
AREITO areito is a Cuban folk dance that combines pantomime, singing and music, and goes back to the musical and dance genre of the ancient Indians of the inhabitants of the island of Cuba (Siboneev and others). This performance tells about heroes, exploits, etc.
ARGENTINE SAMBA (samaqueca) Creole pair dance picaresca in three-length variable meter: 6/8 + 3/4. See samba, samaqueca.
ARGENTINE TANGO argentine pair dance, a variation of Creole tango (see). And the lyric king, Paul Faure, Dreams of a salty wave, Sitting in a tenacious tavern, Drowning in strong tobacco, Where the Argentine tango Is Danced by the homeland of Pogo (And. A Northerner. The first letter); In the hall they danced an Argentine tango to the wonderful music of Joasinho Navarro, who was reputed to be the most famous pianist in Bahia (J. Amadou. Dona Flor and her two husbands); Romulo danced the Argentine tango even better than the late Osmundo. Malvina, with her rosy face and beautiful eyes shining, seemed to be in a daydream, fluttering like a feather in the engineers strong arms (J. Amadou. Gabriela).
ARIN ARIN an old Basque round dance. Men and women participating in the procession dance it in pairs (pairs form a circle), moving back and forth. It looks like a folk festival.
ASCOLIAS Ascoliotes dance (from the Greek ascos "leather fur, leather", and liachein "to dance") is a festival of leather furs in ancient Greece (in Athens) in honor of Dionysus; during the festival, people danced, jumping on one leg on leather furs smeared with oil, or jumped over jugs of wine on one leg. the leg. Anyone who fell was ridiculed by those present.
ASCOLIOTES DANCE see ascolias.
ASKERANI (from Turkish. asker ("warrior, soldier") is an Azerbaijani male dance of a rapid nature.
ASSEMBLE a jump from one leg to two is performed with the leg retracted in a given direction and the legs gathered together during the jump. ATTITUDE the position of the foot that is lifted off the floor and slightly bent at the knee.
ASSICO Cameroonian national dance of the Bassa tribe. The pace is very fast. Movements are primarily neck, hip, and foot movements. Sometimes the men dance with a bottle on their head.
ASSYRO-BABYLONIAN dance of baal
ASTRAL DANCE OF THE ZODIAC ancient Egyptian sacred dance. It was performed by twelve priestesses depicting the signs of the zodiac, slowly moving in a round dance around the altar to string music.
ASTRONOMICAL DANCES ancient Egyptian dances developed by the priests of Ancient Egypt and performed by them. Through the varied movements of well-chosen steps and well-drawn figures, the painted priests represented the order, the course of the heavenly bodies, and the harmony of their movement. Cf. the image of this in the opera by J. R. R. Tolkien. Verdis "Aida". Wed. space dances.
AT GIENTSCHES (gientshe, an exalted form of Chinese music) an ancient Chinese dance performed during sacrifices. The dancers imitated the movement of the waters as they swayed in the gentle breeze.
AT TAKHTIB (Arabic. "battle") is an ancient Egyptian folk dance, with song and hand-clapping.
ATAN Afghan Pashtun round dance (in many ethnic groups of Afghanistan). Often accompanied by singing.
ATTITUDE the position of the leg that is lifted off the floor and slightly bent at the knee.
AUSTRALIAN COMPANIES corroboree
AUSTRIAN COMPANIES viennese waltz, dreer, styrian waltz, styrian dance
AVAR ISLANDS avar kavkha, golu
AVAR KAVHA ("Avar starosta") Avar and Tabasaran fast-tempo dance. Musical size 2/4. Performed to the accompaniment of shamisak (lute).
AYYALA an ancient East Arabian martial male dance, similar to the albara (see).
AZ ZAR an Egyptian temperamental dance for exorcising evil spirits; as well as a dance of a lyrical nature. Then the slave girls struck the strings and sang and danced, and Abul-Hasan was completely dazed, dazed, and bewildered. He slapped his hand on the caliphs turban, threw it off his head, threw off the clothes of the caliphs... and danced with Najmat al-Subh, Yakutat al-Kalb and Habl al-Lulu, whom he fell in love with (1001 nights. Caliph for an hour).
AZERBAIJANI COMPANIES аскерани, газахы, гытгылыда, джанги, джейраны, мирзаи, терэкэмэ (таракяма), тураджи, халай, яллы
Armenian jeyrani, zurny tryngi, krungli, krunk, ludki, nunufar, oi nazan, paplancho, tik horan, uzandara, forke
BACCHANAL (Greek. bacchike, from the name of the god of wine and fun Bacchus) dance (choreographic) scene in ballet or opera, depicting intoxication and violent noisy fun. The dance and accompanying music are fast-paced. Samples in S. Gounods opera "Faust", in A. Khachaturians ballet "Spartacus".
BACCHANALIAN DANCE an ancient dance in honor of the god Bacchus, of a violent nature, with erratic and convulsive leaps. Compare the Bacchanalian round dance in L. Delibes ballet " Sylvia". ...In honor of the wine god Bacchus, his priestesses, bacchantes, arranged wild, unbridled dances, drawing all the spectators into them even against their own wishes (G. Kreidlin, M. Krongauz. Semiotics, or the Alphabet of communication); ... corybantes with Syrian girls ran into the hall and, to the sounds of citharas, flutes, cymbals and tambourines, spun in a bacchanalian dance with wild shouts ... (G. Sienkiewicz. Kamo ryadeshi). Wed.: Japanese orgy unfolded in front of Organtino, like a mirage… In the middle of the circle, a woman as statuesque as he had ever seen in Japan danced wildly on a large overturned bucket… The vine that covered her hair fluttered in the air. The jasper necklace around her neck rattled like hail. She was waving a small bamboo branch in her hand, stirring up the wind. And her bare breasts! Standing out in the red light of the street lamps, her glittering breasts seemed to Organtino nothing more than the embodiment of sensuality itself (A. Ryunoske. Grin of the gods); How they have fun, look Dancing, jumping endlessly (L. Medici. Bacchanalian song) ; You drive the clouds like a whirlwind… You give them, like a dancing maenad, their hair standing up straight (P. B. Shelley. Ode to the west wind). Compare Dionysia, bacchanalia, see and compare tiaz.
BACHATA Latin American dance of the 2nd half of the XX century, which originated in the Dominican Republic. Musical size 2/4. Four steps from side to side, with emphasis on the last step, and other shapes. The distance between partners is close. It is associated with bolero 2 and son.
BAGDADURI (from the name of the headscarf Bagdadi) an ancient Georgian mostly male dance using a headscarf. The dancer catches the thrown handkerchief, picks it up from the floor with his mouth, without bending his legs. The dancers costume and headdress are made of black satin, the dancer is belted with a red belt.
BAILA Sri Lankan Sinhalese national dance.
BAIYANG a Chadian dance performed at womens initiations. Girls 12-16 years old (living for a long time in the forest) they become a circle, and each in turn dances in the center (2-3 minutes); the ending dancer indicates who is next. Those standing in the circle applaud, beating out the rhythm. They dance in masks and special clothes. The dance has a festive character, the pace is moderate. Accompanied by a drum (balafon).
BAKHTAVAR Lezgian slow smooth dance.
BALANCE (balance) "swinging", a pendulum movement of the legs forward up back down, forward back, forward back up.
BALLATA (it. ballata "dance") an old Italian popular dance song (XIII-XV centuries), in content reminiscent of a madrigal (love content).
BALLET OF DEATH ancient Greek ritual dance. This girl knew what was coming. Her life was very short, devoted to the deadly game of dancing with long-horned spotted bulls... the girls of Tavropola represented the main characters in this sacred ritual. The power of the fearsome animal was squandered in the dance of wrestling with incredibly fast jumpers by girls and boys specially trained for the ballet of death by experts in a complex ritual. The Cretans believed that by doing so they were diverting the wrath of God, which was slowly and inexorably maturing in the bowels of the earth and sea (I. Yefremov. Thais of Athens).
BALLETTO (from pozdnelat. ballo "I dance") is a vocal dance work of the XVI-XVII centuries, common in Italy; a dance piece in the fast tempo movement of allemande; a suite from dances in the XVII-XVIII centuries.
BALLISTIA (from lat. ballo "dance") dance songs in ancient Rome.
BAMBA (bomba) (from the name of a wooden drum covered with goat skin) is a Venezuelan dance with African-American music. Dicotyledonous meters, the dominance of percussion instruments. Mexican folk dance of love content. Similar to samba and guaracha. Musical size 2/4. Partners are facing each other, with their hands joined behind their backs or on their hips. Step forward with one foot and slide backward with the other (alternately left and right); stomping.
BAMBUKO Bamboo (Spanish: "bamboo, bamboo") is a Colombian Creole folk dance and accompanying song. Crisscrossing rhythm.
BAMBULA an African dance, also in some places in the Antilles, performed in a circle to the sounds of bambula (tam tama) and originating from black slaves in the past. The dance has a primitive and harsh character, violent, with a lot of noise, somersaults, squats, clapping hands, etc. A man leads a woman into a circle and dances with her. The dance continues for several hours; if the dancer becomes exhausted and falls to the ground, he is dragged away, and someone enters the circle in his place.
BARBADIAN AIRLINES limbo
BARIS Indonesian classical ritual dance in Bali. Performers dance impetuously, wearing loincloths, with flickering lamps. The dancers show bravery and a warlike chivalrous spirit.
BARONG (barong rangda) (barong rangda) Indonesian dance religious drama (Bali). It depicts a lively drama of the struggle between good (barong) and evil (rangda). Barong has the appearance of a shaggy dog, and rangda is an evil widow witch. Barong is supported by people with kris (daggers). The battle is played to the noisy, sharp and exciting accompaniment of a gamelan (percussion instrument). At the end of the dance, Rangda is banished.
BASS DANCE all sorts of old jumpless court dances of the XVI century. (in France, Italy), based on walking, sliding on the floor without jerking the leg up. The rhythm was mixed. Their drawing was built in the form of round dances or chains. They had the character of a ritual passage or walk to music. The predecessor of the print shop (estampy).
BASSA bassa (Italian: bassa, bassadanza) is an old Italian slow dance. Musical size 6/4. Wed. bass dance.
BATH DANCES greek dances. Greek women often gather in the baths, where completely naked women dance just like the graces with the nymphs.… A Greek woman who has washed herself in the bathhouse takes a flair shirt and a light dress from the hands of her slave. She raises her waist by putting on her bare feet her high sandals, on which you can see glittering pearl shells and gold embroidery. It performs majestically, being sprayed with various perfumes. Her half-naked children run around playing and follow her... (Sh. Company. Dance dictionary).
BATTEMENT AVELOPPE opposite battement develope movement, the "working" leg is lowered from the open position through the passe to the specified position.
BATTEMENT DE VELOPPE pulling the leg forward, backward or to the side by sliding the "working" leg on the support one.
BATTEMENT FONDU (batman fondue) "soft", "melting", simultaneous flexion and extension of the legs in the hip and knee joints.
BATTEMENT FRAPPE a movement consisting of rapid, vigorous flexion and extension of the leg, the foot is brought to the sur le cou de pied position at the moment of flexion and opens with the toe to the floor or to a height of 45° at the moment of extension forward, sideways or backward.
BATTEMENT RELEASE LENT smooth lifting of the leg by sliding on the floor 90° forward, sideways or backward.
BATTEMENT RETIRE transfer via sliding of the "working" leg, via passe from V position in front to V position behind.
BATTEMENT SOUTENU (batman sotenyu) "merged" from stoics on socks with a half-squat on the left, right sliding forward on the toe (back or to the side) and sliding back to the IP.
BATTEMENT TENDU (batman tandem) "extended" sliding movement of the foot to the toe position forward, sideways, backward with a sliding movement back to the IP.
BATTEMENT TENDU JETE (batman tandyu jete)"throw", swing to the down position (25°, 45°) with a cross.
BATTEMENTRETIRE transfer via sliding of the "working" leg, via passe from V position in front to V position behind.
BATTU (botyu) "beat" continuously, small, short blows to the ankle joint only in front or behind the supporting leg.
BATUKA (batuke) (port. batuque, from the Cape Verde Creole language) is an ancient Brazilian ritual dance. It comes from the folk festival of Africans. The participants form a circle in which, in addition to dancers, musicians and spectators take part. In the center of the circle is a solo dancer or one or two pairs of dancers who make rapid swinging movements with their bodies, mainly with their hips, with stamping their heels, with clapping their hands and clicking their fingers. Accompanied by playing percussion instruments.
BATUKADA dance of the peoples of South America; originated in Brazil. It is performed under a variety of percussion and noise instruments of African origin.
BAYADEROK DANCE see the devadasis dance.
BAYAO (bayonne, elbayon) (port. bai?o) brazilian pair dance, fast enough, with a clear rhythm. Music size 2/4. A variant of samba. Partners stand face to face, in an embrace. It is characterized by moving the body weight from one leg to the other without changing the position of the legs or after a step with one foot forward or backward.
BAYLECITO (Spanish bailecito, a diminutive of Spanish. baile "dance") is a Bolivian and Argentine folk dance related to the Creole music and dance culture. It was influenced by Spanish dance culture. Choreographed in samakueke (see). Fast pair dance. Dancing with a headscarf.
BAYONNE see bayao.
BAZAKA Chadian Muslim dance, paired mass. Men and women (wearing burqas) stand in pairs in two parallel rows. Vigorous body movements.
BAZHANT (Czech. "pheasant") is a Czech folk pair or mass pair dance. The pace is average. The pair rotates, holding hands facing each other, clockwise with jumps and jumps; later, the partners move three steps away from each other to the right, turning their heads to the left and looking at each other, return back, hands palms on the waist.
BAZMI ORO (Tajik. "holiday") ancient Tajik dances performed at feudal and other rich peoples homes by professional dancers. Of a sensual nature. Wed. Sayyid reclines high in the hall; A host of bearded sheikhs sit around. Pilav is finished, the noisy feast has subsided… The smoke of the chub pipes is flowing more and more strongly, And a light swarm of almays (J. Byron. Corsair).
BEDAYA Indonesian classical dance in Java. Nine dancers representing the goddesses of the South Sea participate. The rhythm is measured, unhurried, refined, stately; the dancers smoothly move their upper torso and arms.
BEER piva "bagpipes" is an Italian dance of two-pronged size (6/8 or 2/4), with a lively character. A quick double step followed by a short step towards the heel of the leading foot.
BEGGARS DANCE indian dance (North American Indians). Dance to us, Po Pok Kiwis, The Beggars merry Dance, So that the feast is more cheerful, So that time passes more pleasantly, So that the guests are satisfied! (G. Longfellow. The Song of Hiawatha).
BEGIN see bigin.
BEIDA (literally "tamtam") is a Central African Chadian dance. Ten men and ten women are dancing, standing close, in parallel rows. One of the figures is men covering women with their long bubu clothes. The dance is accompanied by loud singing and shouting.
BELARUSIAN COMPANIES belarusian polka, bulba, whirlwind, karakod, krutikha, kryzhachok, lyavonikha, lyanok, joy
BELARUSIAN POLKA Belarusian pair dance is a mass dance of a cheerful, fervent and light nature, with frequent and rapid changes in the positions of the dancers. Musical size 2/4, tempo moderately fast.
BELARUSIAN POLKA STEP Music size 2/4. It starts with a zatakta, a jump and three steps or three tributaries. Performed on the 1st beat of the music.
BELAYA RADA Serbian folk dance; mixed or performed by only girls. The pace is average. The dance is characterized by a semicircle, the performers hold each others hands, lowered down.
BELLY DANCE (TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH: DANCE DU VENTRE) ancient erotic dance, widespread in ancient times and later up to the present time in various countries of the East, as well as Southern Europe. It was danced by women with bare bellies, depicting conception, gestation and birth. Full body movement. They suggest a cult origin. Related to striptease. In a harem of scented Silk pure Before the Shah I dance All naked, The Shahs hand is kissed By the Look of the Shah flattered. My hair is lush Dark night blacker, Im on the mat embroidered Wriggle like a snake (A. Kusikov. Persian dance); One of the girls with tambourines began to dance danse du ventre something terrible in cynicism (S. Fonvizin. Seven months in Egypt and Pakistan);…This danse du ventre is performed with the sound of tambourines and a piano, at which a Black woman is sitting (A. Chekhov. Emails);…And we are introduced to Jewish women performing belly dancing. This dance is ugly, ungracious… Three girls, three sisters, extremely dressed up, performed their obscene antics under the benevolent eye of the mother...; after each attack of convulsions of the daughters bellies, the mother made a collection among the audience for the maintenance of the institution (G. Maupassant. Tunisia);…Baya... to entertain her master, performed a belly dance, holding a mirror in her hand, in which she admired her dazzling teeth (A. Dode. Tartarin of Tarascon); Squinting with his hunted pupil, he turned his stomach like a top and threw the woman on the floor with a pitching motion, first on her back, then on her face. The belly pressed in like a moan, and like a fish beating its tail, in a network of grins, freaky, hit the floor with a womans head. My stomach was shivering. My stomach was giving birth. My stomach was shaking, as if a dagger was being driven deeper and deeper. My stomach was twisting and shaking, as if I was starving. Yevtushenko. Belly dance).
BERGAMASCA (it. bergamasca, from the name of the province of Bergamo) old Italian pair dance of the XVI-XVII centuries and singing to it. Music size 3/4, lively tempo. The dance is characterized by square structures, jumps, and circular movements. Samples in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien Frescobaldi. Base. Would you like to watch the epilogue or listen to the Bergamo dance performed by two of our actors? Theseus… Show us your Bergamo dance, and we dont need an epilogue. Shakespeare. A midsummer nights dream); Your soul is that chosen distance Where the masks sweetly dance bergamasca. Their dress is quaint, and yet sadness, Sounding in the melody of the strings, leads them to dance (P. Verlaine. Moonlight).
BERGERETTE (Fr. "little shepherdess") an old French dance song of the XV century. pastoral character. Wed. pastorel.
BETUTA Romanian and Moldavian dance of temperamental character.
BHANGRA bhangra is a dance style common in areas of India and Pakistan, an old folk male dance with a drum and singing, joyful and energetic in nature. Men dance in bright outfits. Of religious origin.
BHARAT NATYA Bharata Natyam is an Indian dance pantomime, classical dance style (in the south of India). Dance of Tamil origin; female group or solo. Long duration.
BI BOP (BOP) a jazz style that developed and existed in the mid-20th century. as a reaction against swing and its rhythmic and melodic simplicity; fast dance to the music of "modern". Musical size 4/4. Fast foot movements. Close to jive. Sample in the French movie" Dance with Me " (Sexy girl). Cold jazz, be Bop, and jazz rock fought their battles later, But there was always a god named Armstrong Louis (A. Dolsky. Hello, Louis!).
BIBATS (bibaties, from the Greek bibas "walking") is an ancient Greek household dance formed by jumping, during which they hit themselves with their heels on the backside.
BIG BIT (BIT) synonym for rock and pop music; in a narrow sense, dance in this style (modern youth). This is the night subway beat… This bit of streets and squares… Moscow beat sounds over the country… This new dance is like dynamite! Let Everyone who loves the beat dance with us (song).
BIGIN (begin) (Fr. biguine, a word from the Antilles) is an original Latin American pair dance of the Antilles, four-dimensional. Voluptuous and swinging her hips back and forth. The partner throws her arms around her partners neck; his arms are loosely wrapped around her waist. Type of rumba. It goes back to chica. It was in fashion in the first half of the XX century. A sample in the Argentine movie "Poorer than a church Mouse".
BIJELGE (Mongolian. "body dance") is a Mongolian dance. It consists of body and arm movements, while leg movements are almost nonexistent.
BINASUAN (binasuan "using a drinking glass") Filipino dance, colorful and lively. They dance gracefully but cautiously with a glass full of wine on their head.
BINOYUGAN (binoyugan) filipino dance. Women dance while holding a clay pot on their head to carry water. At the end of the dance, they lie belly down and roll from side to side, holding the pot on their heads.
BLACK BOTTOM black bottom is a North American dance of the early 20th century, close to the foxtrot.
BLANJA Russian folk dance in the northern regions, in eight pairs, a kind of quadrille. Wed. balanzha.
BLARITA (balarita) ancient Greek and later Greek dance of a voluptuous nature, in particular wedding.
BLARITA (BALARITA) ancient Greek and later Greek dance of a voluptuous nature, in particular wedding. Looking at these models, you can clearly see that if they dance not only blarita, but even eumeleia, they will not achieve primacy (I. Yefremov. Thais of Athens); Music from the springs of Xanthus sounds to you. Circling more freely: there are no acanthus flowers here ... A hundred-year-old cypress tree And a young blooming Adonis rose breathe warmly to you. I look from afar, hidden behind the branches, As you fly in free circles, As you raise your white hand with a golden amphora over your wild head. There is a wild joy in the child of self-forgetfulness, There is an unearthly peace in the madness of frenzy (N. Shcherbina. Dance. Greek melody).
BLESSING THE SEEDS ancient Greek ritual dance in honor of Cybele, an agricultural character.
BLEZDINGELE (Litovsk. "swallow") is a Lithuanian womens dance. Elegant character. A small handkerchief is used to imitate the movement of the swallows wings.
BLOOD DANCE dance of the Bushmen tribes during initiations. Tsagn (hero of myths)... gave people songs, taught them the "blood dance" (a ritual dance of the bushmen associated with the initiation rites of young men) (Mythological Dictionary).
BODY ROLL [BODY ROLL] a group of torso tilts associated with alternately moving the center of the body in the lateral or frontal plane (also known as "wave").
BOLANGER old Spanish Catalan folk mixed (men and women) dance, circular, to the sound of an orchestra.
BOLERO Spanish national dance, supposedly invented around 1780 by Sebastian Cerezo of Cadiz. In the folk version, the bolero is a dance for a solo couple, and several couples can participate in a public performance. The accompaniment of a castanet or guitar is required if the melody of the dance is sung. Bolero is characterized by a dicotyledonous, occasionally three-length meter; the dance consists of five parts: pazeo, traversion, diferencia, traversion and finale. Excellent examples of boleros in professional music are Chopins Piano Bolero (Op. 19) and M. Schopins orchestral Bolero. Ravel. Beethoven has a Bolero a solo, and K. M. von Weber included a bolero in his music for a Preziosa piece. Bolero motifs can be found in the operas Blind from Toledo by Etienne Megul, Black Domino, Mute from Portici by D. Aubert, as well as in the opera by G. Berlioz by Benvenuto Cellini. A faster version of the bolero is seguidilla (it is possible that it served as the basis for the bolero). The Cuban bolero and the similar Dominican bolero are characterized by a bipartite rhythm with syncopation and form a Spanish-American version of the dance.
BOLERO 1 (in French vowel with emphasis on the last syllable; in Spanish on the second syllable) (named after a Spanish dancer) Spanish pair dance from the XVIII century. Moderately fast, rhythmic, elegant, with characteristic Spanish dance poses, using castanets, tambourine and finger-snapping. Musical size 3/4. Sample of the bolero "Spanish Song" by L. Delibes, a song from the operetta by Sh. Lecoq "Hand and heart". It is used in S. Prokofievs opera "Duenna", in the opera of J. P. Blavatsky. Verdi "Masquerade Ball (Arioso Renato " Invested with power from above"). We danced a bolero In the darkening valley (L. Delibes song " Bolero"); In Seville, there is a special place where dancers and lovers of national dances come together in the evenings. There, only with complete ease in all its splendor, a real typical bolero is performed (D. Grigorovich. Ship "Retvizan").
BOLERO 2 Cuban dance (also in other countries of the Antilles) is close to a slow rumba, which originated on the basis of the Spanish bolero, but is characterized by less clarity of poses and a more restrained pace. Musical size 2/4, with syncopation. There is no more pleasant cavalier, Who would dance better than he, bole?ro (song).
BOLERO DREAM linear combination of the two named dances. It starts as a bolero, ends as a dream at a faster pace, with a clearer beat of the rhythm.
BOLIVIAN baylecito, bottle dance, kaluyo, carnavalito, cachua, montagnard, huayno, huaynitos
BON ODORI bon odori is an ancient Japanese mass dance performed during the Buddhist Bon festival, the day of remembrance of deceased ancestors and memories of their good deeds. The servants and employees were allowed to watch bon odori dance (Shimazaki Toson. Family).
BOOGIE WOOGIE (English boogie woogie, from American. modern ballroom and household dance, with African-American dance features, blues, performed by musicians at a fast pace, to which they dance. The dancer brings his knees together, moving forward with a swing of his hips from side to side.
BOSSA NOVA (bossa nova, jazz samba) (Portugal. "new bossa", literally "new voice, new rhythm") is a modern pair ballroom dance that originated as a result of the interaction of jazz with Brazilian dance rhythms and folklore. Partners are facing each other. Swaying and twisting of the hips, stopping in motion. Sample in the American movie "Fun in Acapulco". Wed. boss.
BOSSA NOVA (BOSSA NOVA, JAZZ samba) (Portuguese. "new bossa", literally "new voice, new rhythm") is a modern pair ballroom dance that originated as a result of the interaction of jazz with Brazilian dance rhythms and folklore. Partners are facing each other. Swaying and twisting of the hips, stopping in motion. Sample in the American movie "Fun in Acapulco". Wed. boss.
BOSTON (waltz Boston) (from the name of an American city) is an American ballroom pair dance of a lyrical, sentimental nature; a kind of slow waltz. Musical size 3/4. A pause on the third part of the accompaniment is characteristic. The rhythm is whimsical. The melodic beginning prevails over the rhythmic one. Sliding movements of dancers without rotation. The pace then accelerates, then slows down. Sample in R. Gliers ballet "Red Poppy".
BOTESITA (Spanish: "little boat") Cuban dance. Strong shoulder movements are characteristic.
BOTTLE DANCE bolivian dance. A dancing woman holds bottles on her head, sometimes performs some tricks while holding them on her head (picks up a handkerchief from the floor with her teeth, keeping the bottles from falling).
BOUNCE springboard swaying up and down, mainly occurs either due to flexion and extension of the knees, or pulsating bends of the torso.
BOUNCES Musical size 2/4. Perform energetically, fervently for each song ? tact. One step on the right foot, two jumps on this leg, raise the knee of the left foot, the sock is pulled down. The movement is performed with one and the other leg in different directions.
BOWL turkmen womens dance. The dancer performs the movements while holding a bowl of tea in her hands. Other dancers, sitting around her, imitate the guests to whom she offers tea.
BRANLE medieval French folk dance to the accompaniment of bagpipes; later ballroom, fun and relaxed, with tapping heels and swinging (simple branle), jumping and jumping (cheerful branle). Partners hold hands almost all the time. Musical size 2/4 and 3/4. Accompanied by singing. Branlem opened the ball. In the ballroom version, many folk elements were eliminated, and the dance took on the character of a gallant, erotically colored game; with curtsies. Sample piece of the same name for piano by F. Poulenc. Well, the dancing finally starts! Its a branle, an old dance Ive heard of. Dancers clap their hands to represent laundresses on the banks of the Seine… What was that? Flexible, sensual movements of the dancers, their clapping of hands during the performance ... (V. Holt. The Scarlet mantle); Some of the distinguished guests began to dance the branle, which, according to them, became very fashionable at the French court (V. Holt. The scarlet mantle).
BRAZILIAN PRODUCTS bayon, batuca, batucada, benge, bossa, bossa nova, brazilian samba, jongo, candombe, capoeira, carimbo, carioca, caterete, kashambu, coco, congada, circular samba, kururu, labamba, lundu, lundun, macarico, macumba, maracatu, mashishi, miudinho, modinha, reizado, samba, tambu, umbigada, fofa, shongo, sharamba, jurupari
BRAZILIAN SAMBA Brazilian circular dance in two-meter with African-American choreography. Wed. samba.
BREAKDANCE (break dance) dance with acrobatic elements, popular in the 90s of the XX century. It belongs to one of the youth subcultures. Based on the movements of African-American dances, elements of karate and judo are introduced. The dancer spins on his back, arms, and even on his head. It is danced in the youth environment by young men, competing in skill. All movements are improvised.
BROL brawl is a French dance that resembles a cotillion. In the highest circles of England in the 17th century, they dance the pavane, galliard, courant, volta, brol, and jig. Pasyutinskaya street. The magic world of dance).
BRUCH slide or smear the entire foot across the floor before opening the foot into the air or when closing into position.
BRYL (bryu) (Romanian. "belt") is a Romanian and Moldovan folk dance, mainly for men. During the dance, participants hold on to the belts (girdles) of those standing next to them. Usually from three to eight people participate. Dancers movements in different directions. Rhythmically complex, syncopated.
BUCURIA (Romanian. "joy, fun") is a Moldovan dance, fun and temperamental. Musical size 2/4. The dancers join the dance in pairs, later forming a common circle. Twirling (rotating pairs), bouncing, tapping, light running.
BUGAKU japanese dances (dance performance) at the court and in temples, with gagaku music. It exists from the VIII-X centuries to the present day. A manly and majestic character, with lots of leg movements. See no.
BUKOLOS (Greek. boukolos ("shepherd of the bulls") is an ancient Greek comic village dance.
BULERIAS Spanish gypsy is usually a group dance. A flamenco version. A cheerful, very lively, frenzied character, but with an element of sadness. Sample in the Spanish movie "Pretty Lola".
BULLO dance of north-east Africa, which conveys the legend of a man who defeated the evil spirit of the mountain.
BURMESE nat pve, ozy, drum dance
BURRE ancient French Auvergne folk dance, in the XVII-XVIII centuries. ballroom dance in Europe. Rude or joking nature. The tempo is fast, clear rhythm, bipartite size (4/4) with zataktom. After every third beat, sharp kicks to the ground. Examples of this dance are found in the works of J. S. Bach, S. Prokofievs ballet Cinderella, and C. Saint-Saens Rhapsody of Auvergne. Mock dances included such as burre and farandola. Pasyutinskaya street. The magic world of dance).
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BUTADA boutade (French: "fad, whim") is a French dance of the XVI-XVII centuries, of a cheerful, probably improvisational nature. This dance alternated with singing.
BY PHONE (Romanian. "vinograd") is a Moldovan folk mass dance. Choreographic image of the wine making process.
Bulgarian graovsko horo, danets, opas, paidushko horo, ruchenitsa, rykata, samokovsko horo, sborenka, sitno zhensko, selskota, dance of peperuda, trynsko horo, hora, chetvorno, shopsko horo
CA LA BREAZA Romanian folk pair mass dance (Ploiesti region). The pace is average, and it gets faster by the end. Typical movements in a circle, diagonally, rotation of girls.
CABINET 1 (Spanish tumba "turning in the air, somersaulting") Spanish Andalusian Christmas dance.
CABINET 2 (SPANISH) negro dance in Cuba. He (Lupero) gave himself up entirely to singing, to a flying dance that reminded him of tumba, tumba in French, and of the women he had forgotten in the captivity of this burnt estate (K. V.). Fuentes. Death of Artemio Cruz).
CADEDANCE Danish Faroese festive mixed round dance with ballad singing.
CADUCEUS Angolan dance, from which massemba originates (see).
CALABRISM (from the name of the area) ancient Greek war dance. Men danced it, brandishing spears. The rattling of weapons was like a musical accompaniment.
CALATISM (Greek. kalathismos) is a type of comic dance among ancient peoples.
CALLIBS (kallibies, from Greek. kallos ("beautiful") is an ancient Greek household dance with voluptuous movements; danced by women.
CALLINICUS (Greek. kallinikos ("victorious, victorious") is an ancient Greek sacred pantomime dance representing the descent of Hercules into hell.
CALYPSO (Spanish Greek; from the name of the nymph Calypso, the word in this meaning comes from the island of Jamaica) dance form on the island of Trinidad (West Indies) with the use of unusual percussion and scraping musical instruments; paired ballroom erotic dance. Music size 4/4.
CAMBODIAN lakon khol
CAMEROONIAN ambassi blo, assico, butterfly, macossa, horse tail dance
CANARY ISLAND ballroom and stage dance in France and Italy (XVI-XVII centuries). Probably from the folk dance of the inhabitants of the Canary Islands; it is also assumed that it originates from the masquerade. The musical size is three-sided or 6/16. The first part of the bar is almost always dotted. The pace is fast. Getting partners closer to each other and moving away from each other. Elegant exotic movements of arms and legs, pirouettes and bouncing on the spot. Difficult to execute. Linked to shuplatter. Have you tried to influence her in French?.. All you have to do is whistle a jig with your tongue and make Canary knees with your feet... Shakespeare. The fruitless efforts of love).
CANCAN The frenetic and not very decent French dance of the 19th century, in a fast tempo and bipartite size (similar in type to the Spanish fandango), originated in Paris in the 1830s. Offenbach introduced the cancan in his operetta Orpheus in Hell; a suite from this operetta called Parisian Fun (arranged by Manuel Rosenthal, 1938) is now more popular.
CANDIOT Greek dance based on the myth of Theseus and Ariadne. Performed by many participants, the dance is led by a girl with a scarf and a silk cord.
CANDLELIGHT DANCE old Hungarian wedding dance. They ended the wedding celebration. All the guests joined hands, holding a candle in their right hand, and nine times, dancing, went around the house of the newlyweds (T. Tkachenko. Folk dances).
CANDOMBE Candomble (Bantu for "prayer of god") is a Brazilian ritual dance performed by South American Negroes. It originated during the period of slavery in the Americas and reflects the plight of black slaves. Candombe dance of Negroes in front of a fire... in a thicket of coca, next to the surf (Luis P. Matos. Candombe); First they went to drink ice-cold beer, then to Candombe in the White House (J. Amadou. Wonder Shop); With drums, rattles and bells passes candomble, go priestesses, pavo and orisha… The invincible dance continues (ibid.); But all this is Argentine, even our candombe, in other words, a Negro dance (M. Benedetti. Thank you for the light); We owe this sense of philanthropy to countless consequences: hence the Handy blues, the vulgar rumba, the habanera as the mother of tango, the candombe dance (H. L. Borges. The Cruel liberator); Marcelline dances briskly with the tambourine, and maraca dances briskly with her eyes alight. And her dream is all about dancing, as she should be: with a hundred wings on her ankles and a smile on her lips. Follow, follow, negress, the rhythm of the candombe dance. God in Heaven, Marceline, has turned His eyes to you (Rasalba Montejano de Catella. Marcelina the Negress).
CARIBANTIA see the Caribant dance.
CARIMBO (carimbo, from the name of the big drum) is a Brazilian folk circular dance. With percussion and stringed instruments, colorful and exciting. During the dance, a woman throws a handkerchief on the floor, and her partner must pick it up only with the help of his lips.
CARIOCA (port. carioca, possibly from the name of the river or from the colloquial name of a resident of Rio de Janeiro) Brazilian group carnival temperamental dance. The pace is moderate or fast. Standing in chains, the dancers hold hands, sing, and sway their bodies back and forth. Couples dance with their foreheads or cheeks pressed together. Vigorous arm movements, hip swings. Similar to Brazilian samba. It has a connection with mashishi, rumba, foxtrot. Sample in the American movie "Flight to Rio", in the French movie "Ball". True, you have heard of Rio, of the hunchbacked Corcovado, and you dont need to be told about the sultry Rio… And about the colorful carnival, rushing like a herd, like an archangel in a scarlet squall, it is not necessary to repeat (N. Guillen. Carioca).
CARMAGNOLA (from the name of an Italian city) is a French folk revolutionary song dance that originated at the beginning of the French Revolution. It is based on the Southern French melody of a round dance song. Musical size 6/8. Danced in a circle or chain. Sample in B. Asafievs ballet "The Flame of Paris". Carmagnola dances were performed in the streets; no one called a lady a lady or a cavalier a cavalier, but simply "citizen" and " citizen." In ruined monasteries, they arranged dances, decorated the altar with lamps, danced under the shadow of two sticks knocked down by a cross, with four candles at the ends, and famously tapped their heels on tombstones (V. Hugo. Ninety-third year); A rich man and a poor man dance a carmagnolou (Beranger, July 14); Lets dance a carmagnolou, Forward together, forward together! The cannon platoon is calling us (song).
CARNAVALITO (from the name of the musical instrument) is an ancient dance of the Andean countries (in Bolivia and Peru), related to the Creole dance and music culture.
CARPETS Russian folk dance in the northern regions. Dancing to the tune of a song: "The girls sewed the carpet, sewed and embroidered."
CARTAGENA Spanish dance, one of the ancient prototypes of the fandango.
CERULI (from cargo. tseri "toe of the foot") is a Georgian folk mountain male dance. It is performed mainly on the toes, on the toes (by a soloist, a couple or a group of dancers), with quick turns and jumps on the fingers. Dancers walk around in a circle, competing in skill and skill. Music size 4/4, 2/4.
CHA CHA CHA The dance, which uses the rhythmic structure of mambo or rumba, was first performed by the Cuban Orchestra "America" in 1953. The basic clock pattern is slow, slow, fast, fast, slow and the last three rhythmic beats corresponding to the syllables "cha cha cha". In the first recordings of the dance on records, it was called mamba. The rhythmic section gradually expanded, and the dancers adapted to the new slow rhythm, doubling the size at the count of 4 and 1 and replacing the light hip movements with three steps; after four years, the original rigidity of the model was overcome, and the three steps were performed with a typically Cuban hip swing. As in most Latin American dances, the charm of the cha cha cha is not in the intricacy of the movements, but in their grace and naturalness.
CHACARERA Chacarero (Spanish: chacarero "farmer", from Chacara "farm") is an Argentine folk dance. Snapping your fingers.
CHACHAK Serbian mixed dance; the dancers move in a circle in one direction and the other, holding hands (in a chain). The beginning is slow, then the dance speeds up. The music and dance phrases dont match.
CHACONA Spanish dance of the 16th and 18th centuries, close to the Passacaglia. According to the descriptions of the authors of the 16th and 17th centuries, the dance came to Spain from the West Indies. Originally sensual and temperamental, the chaconne evolved in the 17th century into a slow stately dance, musically with a variational development based on the basso ostinato. In the 17th and 18th centuries. it often became the final part of a ballet included in an opera performance, and was performed to music of three-dimensional size. As a purely instrumental form, the chacon is a variation on the basso ostinato. The most famous examples of the chaconne are the finale of the partita in D minor for solo violin by J. S. Bach, in the clavier suites by Handel and in the finales of Glucks operas Orpheus and Iphigenia in Aulis.
CHACONNE (chaconne, chacon) an ancient dance, a favorite in Spain and Italy, sedate and elegant, with slow, soft movements. Cf. chacona, chiacona, shakota. It has the features of a minuet and gavotte. It is also understood as a type of quadrille. The fashion for dancing in general arose and passed very quickly: in different years, "alyagrek", Lancier, Cracowiak, chacon, padecatre, mignon and other dances came into use, which were quickly forgotten later (Balls and holidays in Russia).
CHADIAN bazaka, bayan, beida, gurna, gioro gioro, klag, maticachuna, mdomdant, ndasson, ndon mbessi
CHAINE ANGLAISE (French: "English chain") one of the quadrille figures. ...Behind him, the fading sounds of the quadrille tickled my nerves. Just now, they were dancing chaine anglaise (to. Mixat. The story of Nosti Jr. and Maria Toth).
CHAKARRA Spanish dance, a type of fandango. Two women dancing with one man.
CHALONARANG Indonesian traditional classical mystery dance (Bali island). The dancers of the leading parties appear in the garb of magicians, in masks with fiery tongues, with sharp tips on their fingers.
CHAM Tibetan ritual and mystical performance based on ancient magical dances. It is performed accompanied by percussion instruments.
CHAPASHE (Slovak. "crackers") is a Slovak folk dance. It is characterized by the male dancer slapping the top of his boot with the palm of his hand and both hands in front of him.
CHARDASH Hungarian folk dance in two-part scale, consisting of two contrasting parts-a slow melancholy introduction (lassu) and the actual dance, fast and incendiary (friska). Well-known examples of chardash are found in Hungarian Liszt Dances and Sarasate Gypsy tunes.
CHARDENGELE hungarian labor dance. It is characterized by a complex pattern of leg movements.
CHARLESTON Charleston (from the name of a city in the United States) is an American ballroom dance based on Black dances. One of the forms of jazz music. The rhythm is sharply accented, syncopated. Its like a fast foxtrot. Musical size 4/4. Characterized by rapid turns of the foot of one or both feet with the toes in and out. It was popular at the beginning of the XX century and, after being forgotten, became fashionable again in the period of the 60-70s. Samples in R. Gliers ballet "Red Poppy". Grandma, put down your knitting, Start your old gramophone, And fulfill my wish: Teach me to dance the Charleston (song); The deck bends and groans, the deck charlestones to the accordion (e. Yevtushenko. Citizens, listen to me); Twist and Charleston! You have filled the globe! Waltz pushed back, guilty without guilt (song).
CHEPOVE Czech and Slovak ritual dance with a flail at the Dozhinok (harvest) festival.
CHETVERA (four) Russian folk dance, a kind of quadrille. Wed. shestera, vosmera.
CHETVORNO Bulgarian dance, mostly female (sometimes danced by men). The movements are sharp, jerky, and the pace is fast. The dancers move in a circle or in straight lines.
CHIACONNA (chacon) ballroom dance of the XVIII century, performed with sedateness and dignity.
CHICONE solemn ritual dance of the tribes of South Africa at the sacrifice to the ancestors.
CHILEAN ONES aguilucho, costillar, cuando, cuando cueca, cueca, pavo, pericon, portenga, refalosa, samaqueca, sandoval, sapo, sahuriana, sombrerito, chilena
CHILENA chilena (Spanish: chilena, from the abbreviation cueca chilena "Chilean cueca") is the name of samaqua in Chile and in Peru. Lively and elegant dance. Accompanied by harp and guitar. Two couples dancing. Musicians sing comic songs.
CHINESE weinang, wen, ruan wu, kuon chie wu, lusheng, mao wu, xuanzi, xiangchi, dragon dance, peacock dance, hand flapping dance, long drum dance, yoke dance, straw hat dance, colored lantern dance, cha oyue, wu gientshe, wu wu, hua wu, zi wu, jian wu, shua luon tao, yange
CHIPANEGAS chipanegas is a Mexican folk dance of the province of Chiapas. Based on drawings of Spanish dances. Music size 3/4. Everyone clapped their hands.
CHIQUITA Chiquita "little" is a Peruvian folk dance. And when night came, they all began to eat, drink, and dance again. And again the chiquita sounded (S. Alegria. The Golden Snake).
CHOKELO (choquela) an ancient Peruvian ritual dance.
CHOREA (lat. from the Greek choreae "round dances") an old name for round dance songs in Europe. Compare the modern meaning of the word chorea.
CHOTIS Spanish ballroom dance, in Madrid. Quick steps with jumps, in Spanish. the movie "The Last Verse". With the last chords of chotis "White Vest", the audience goes home (P. Barokha. Evenings in Buen Retiro).
CHURCHYARD dialect name of the Russian round dance.
CICINNA a kind of dance among the ancient Greeks and later among the Romans.
CIELITO (Spanish: Cielito "little sky") Creole pair dance in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay (Gaucho peasant dance). It goes back to the European country dance. Very similar to Santa Fe.
CIRCASSIAN uj
CIRCLING IN PAIRS The dancers hold hands and look at each other. When performing movements, they should form a circle. Step 1/4 of the clock cycle.
CIRCLING ONE AT A TIME Make a small circle around yourself, maintain your posture, and listen to music. Circling in one direction should take no more than 4 bars of musical accompaniment.
CIRCULAR SAMBA see Brazilian samba.
CIRCULATION a dance based on a long rotational movement. And dance is a cycle: Do you know it? (Lope de Vega. Dance teacher).
CLANGS Uzbek Khorezm dance. Fast, cheerful character. Music size 3/4. Can be single or paired. Energetic, rapid movements, in particular, of the hands. In the dance variants, partners can throw apples at each other.
CLAPS Claps alternate in accordance with the rhythmic pulsation, a clap falls on each quarter. Size 2/4 – 2 claps in the beat, alternating for each ? tact. Or pause for one beat.
CLICK-THROUGHS figure of a Russian round dance, dialect name.
COD (tresca) an ancient round dance of Italian origin. Lively, erotic character; sometimes with singing. See trezza.
COLOMBIA Latin American dance, a type of rumba (see). The dance is energetic, has uneven, jerky movements, rhythm disturbances; trembling of the back when the rest of the body is motionless. It can be performed by one person.
COLOMBIAN ONES bambuco, vallenato, guacharaca, cucaracha, cumbiamba, merengue, pambiche, parranda, pasillo, porro, horopo
COMIC DANCES view of ancient Greek household dances. The dancers were dressed in fancy ways, some with bells on their feet and bells in their hands. Others had rattles and horns. They danced with comical grimaces.
COMPARSA Comparsa (Spanish: "masquerade group") is a Cuban dance performance in the African-American style. It has the character of a march.
CONGA Modern Cuban dance, performed by a line of dancers and originating from the so-called "comparsas" - parades. The conga rhythm is marching, but in each measure the second beat is preceded by syncopation (lasting 1/16). Like rumba, conga often serves as the basis for political songs in Cuba; in the United States, this dance was popularized by Latin American musician Javier Cugat.
CONGOLESE guoto, ekongo
CONTRACT compression, reducing the volume of the body and rounding the spine, begins in the center of the pelvis, gradually capturing the entire spine, performed on exhalation.
CONTRAPASS (French: contrepas "half-step", Spanish: contrapaso "variable step") old Spanish Catalan folk dance. They danced in a circle; lateral movements with small steps are characteristic. Listen, mahout, because contrapass is a foreign dance and has nothing to do with chantrape. Cervantes. A high-born scullery maid).
CONTROVERSY Polemike (from the Greek polemike "military") is an ancient Greek martial dance depicting a battle to the sound of a flute.
CONVERSATIONAL DANCE Danza hablada (Spanish: danza hablada) is an old Spanish pantomime, accompanied by dances and singing, of an expressive nature. This was followed by another intricate dance, one of the so-called "conversational" dances. It was performed by eight nymphs, divided into two groups: one group was led by the god Cupid, the other by the god of Profit. Cupid opened the dance. Then, having made two figures, he fixed his eyes on the girl... took aim at her with a bow and addressed her with ... verses... After saying the verses, he... went back to his place. Then the god of Profit stepped forward and performed two figures of the dance, and as soon as the tambourines stopped, he began to speak in verse.… In the same way, all the other participants of both groups went out and left: each did her own figures and read poems...; then they all mixed up and began to intertwine and unravel with excellent grace and ease (M. Cervantes. Don Quixote).
CORDAX (kordas, kordak) (Greek. kordax "dance, cancan", from the name of the satyr Kordas, the inventor of this dance) is an ancient Greek dance, one of the most indecent and once the most common. Temperamental character, with jumps. It consisted of many obscene figures (the dancer turned his stomach, hit his heels and buttocks, stamped his feet). Used in comedies. Outside the theater, they performed only in a state of intoxication. It is associated with a later cancan. Spin faster and faster! Firinikhova dance! Throw up your foot! Let the audience gasp: "Ouch, ouch!", Seeing the heels in the sky. Spin, roll, and punch yourself in the gut! Throw your legs forward, spin around like a top... (Aristophanes).
CORKSCREW TURN "corkscrew" turns, in which the performer increases or decreases the level of rotation.
CORRENTUCIA french folk dance. Performed in pairs alternately. Moving the pair from one end of the room to the other, jumping, crossing their legs, holding the partner alternately with one or the other hand.
CORRIDINHO corridinho (Portuguese for "little run") is an ancient Portuguese dance, now vulgarised. Dancing in pairs with their arms around each other. In the rhythm of a polka gallop. Jogging and twirling. Fast-paced, bipartite movement. Accompanied by strings and percussion instruments.
CORRIE CORRIE (Spanish: corri corri) an old Spanish dance. Six or eight girls dance softly with one dancer, their heads bowed, an olive branch in their hand. Girls allow you to take care of yourself. A man dances, showing physical abilities, with complex steps and acrobatics. The dance ends with the dancer choosing one of the girls.
CORROBOREE (in the language of the Australian natives "a place where they sing and dance") Australian ritual dance, collective ritual dances and pantomimes of the original inhabitants of Australia, depicting totemic ancestors and spirits in them. There was to be a big celebration that night. Many tribes gathered on corroboree. At night, men will knock spears, dance to music (from fairy tales of the peoples of Australia); Bunjil is the creator of the earth, trees, people. After he warmed the sun with his hands, people came out of the ground and began to dance the ritual dance of corroboree (Mythological Dictionary); There were widespread (among Tasmanians) festivals called "corroboree", which were held especially during the full moon and were accompanied by singing and dancing. The only musical instrument they had was a drum covered with leather (M. Obliquen. Essays on the history of primitive culture); "Strange people, master," he used to say, watching them dance corroboree. They have strange customs " (V. Palmer. Father and son).
CORYBANT DANCE see the corybant dance.
COSMOPOLITANS international improvisational dance in Europe in the mid-19th century It consisted of many different dances. Most of all, they liked the Cosmopolitan dance, where there were Tyrolean, Moorish, Spanish and English dances (it is a pity that there was no Russian dance) (Severnaya Pchela newspaper, 1853, No. 44).
COSTA RICAN punto
COSTILLAR (Spanish: costillar "rib cage") is a Chilean dance that includes game and sports elements.
COTILLION (from the French word cotillon – "petticoat", found in a popular song at that time). A dance common in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. From France, the cotillion went to England and America, where it was performed as the final section of country dances or, later, quadrilles. Various steps and cotillion figures are performed by the first couple to almost any music, and then repeated by all the dancers.
COTTON WITH A BOOTSTRAP It is performed on a strong beat. Music size 2/4. At one time, perform a clap and tap with one foot, pause for two, and so on.
COUNTRY DANCE An old English folk dance. In the country dance, the dancers form two lines, facing each other – male and female; a wide variety of movements are used, often from other dances. The word country (village) in France was transformed into the word contre ("opposite"); hence the German name Contretanz, Kontertanz, in which the original meaning was also lost. Around 1685, the country dance spread from England to the Netherlands and France and soon became one of the most beloved European dances. At first, the country dance music resembled English gigs (as Georg Muffats collection Florilegium secundum, 1698 proves), but in the 18th and 19th centuries, the dotted rhythm became characteristic of the country dance. Folk tunes and other popular tunes were often used in the country dance. The best collection of such tunes is John Playfords The English Dancing Master (1651), which was followed by numerous compilations of the same type. Country dances from the operas of Rameaus Zoroaster and Mozarts Don Giovanni are well known. The popular song of the French Revolution Ca ira is based on the melody of a country dance.
COUPE quick substitution of one leg for another, which serves as a push for a jump or other movement.
COURANTA Dance in dicotyledonous size, originally pantomime, known since the 16th century. It is mentioned by Thuano Arbo in his Orhezographie (1588), as well as several times by Shakespeare (in particular, in Henry V). Gradually, the courant acquired a three-length meter and in the 17th century began to be performed in tandem with the allemande (after it). A characteristic feature of the chimes is the 17th century. there are frequent changes of meter from 3/2 to 6/4 and back, which corresponded to the alternation of the two main figures of the dance-pas de courante and pas de coupe. Musically, there are two different types of courant: the Italian corrente with fast movement and short durations, and the quieter French courante with a transparent texture associated with the technique of French lutenists of the 17th century. Bach chimes follow the French type. Around 1700, the courante became a solemn, dignified dance that preceded the minuet, but after 1720, the courante disappears as a dance, remaining only as a genre model in professional music.
COW DANCE (probably from the name of the shield covered with cowhide) dance of the Indians of North America. Dancing with weapons in their hands. In the center of the circle of dancers are musicians. High jumps to the beat of the music, blows to the shield.
CRAZY Russian group dance in the Bryansk region. Young men and women, standing against each other, show their skills. There, with a whistle and a whistle, They walk until dawn, The Bushes nod to me with a quiet rustle: look. I look I threw up my hands, went into a wide dance, showered flowers on everyone And came out in a song... (A. Blok. In a wild dance).
CREOLE TANGO (tango porteño) is an Argentine pair dance that originated in the late 19th century. from a mix of Andalusian tango and Cuban habanera, as well as milonga; similar to a country dance.
CREON APOCOPE (Greek. "meat cutting table") is an ancient Greek comic dance. Imitates butchers who chop meat.
CROATIAN LANGUAGES ducets, staro sito i koryto, shestinsky prigorsky drmezh
CUANDO (Spanish: cuando "when") a Chilean and Argentine Creole folk dance with singing, paired. It comes from the minuet. The first part is moderate, the second is fast. Music size 3/4 and 6/8. Performed with a guitar or harp.
CUANDO CUECA a Chilean dance that combines these two dances.
CUBAN ONES areito, bolero, botecita, guajira, dansa, danson, comparsa, conga, criolla, pachanga, salsa, samba, son, songoro kosongo, habanera, chica
CUCARACHA Cucaracha (Spanish: "cockroach") is a type of folk song and dance in Latin America (Mexico, Colombia). The pace is moderate. Movement simulation of crushing cockroaches. Sample Latin American dance piece of the same name.
CUECA 1 cueca is an ancient Chilean Indian and Creole couple love dance. Musical size 6/8 with accompaniment in size 3/4. A man and a woman dance separately, both with a headscarf. Accompanied by singing. The melody is always in a major. The pace is fast. It goes back to sarabande or fandango. Wed. samakueka.
CUECA 2 Bolivian dance with flirtation, slow and sensual.
CURVE [KERF] bend the upper part of the spine (to the "solar plexus") forward or to the side.
CUTTING MACHINE Czech folk pair or mass pair dance with the movement of pairs in a circle, jumps, jumps, rotation of pairs. At first, in separate pairs, the dancers hold their arms crossed: right in the right, left in the left (from above). Later, the hands are separated and held sideways at the waist; the dancers, still facing each other, make jumps; then they clap their hands in front of them, join their right hands at the elbows and rotate. Later, they join their left arms at the elbows and rotate in the other direction.
CYBISTHESIS (Greek kybistesis "lowering the head, diving") Ancient Greek Cretan dance in tragedy. Performed by dancers with their heads bowed. Sometimes it takes on the character of a pirriha (see) and is danced with drawn weapons, which the dancers brandish.
CZECH alla hanacca, bazhant, beseda, gulyan, dupak, kolomaika, matenik, obkrachak, pasachka, polka, redova, rezanka, sedlacka, skochna, slamkovey, sousedka, sprowe, taglian, trzasak, furiant, shlyapak
DAHHA ancient Iraqi sword dance.
DANAIDII ancient Greek dance pantomime, depicting the love of Jupiter and Danae.
DANCE "BUFFALO" ritual dance of the North American Mandan Indians. Ten or fifteen dancers formed a circle, drumming and rattling their rattles with songs and howls; when one of them was tired, he began to perform a pantomime, imagining that he had been killed with an arrow from a bow, that he had been skinned and cut into pieces; while the other, standing ready with his buffalo head on the table, began to perform a pantomime. on his shoulders, he took the place of the person who dropped out of the dance (E. Taylor. Anthropology).
DANCE "FEAST OF ETERNITY" ancient Egyptian secular dance performed by women of a deceased man in front of his image.
DANCE "HARVEST FESTIVAL" ancient Egyptian secular dance. During the festival, they danced with wreaths on their heads, with rams horns in their hands (a symbol of fertility and abundance).
DANCE "WIND" ancient Egyptian secular dance. The dancers depicted the grass and papyrus leaves bending in the wind.
DANCE (GERMAN: TANZ) plastic and rhythmic movement of the body as an act of art. More than three millennia ago, Indian dancers charmed their audiences by telling them tales of tenderness and speed, bliss and misery through the play of their hands and the swaying of their bodies (T. Brun. International Sign Language Dictionary); The Indian god Shiva, the creator and first performer of dance, is one of the three main Indian gods… In ancient India, it was said that the energy of dance "is the flame surrounding the dancing Shiva" (G. Kreidlin, M. Krongauz. Semiotics, or the ABC of communication); The dance of two or more partners is always a dialogue. Moreover, dance is considered not just a text, but a magical text that necessarily encourages the interlocutor (god or man) to some kind of response (ibid.); In dance, communicating in body language, men and women can sometimes say a lot more to each other than words (ibid.); Dance at some times included in every religious belief. Later, the scale of the dance expanded to include imitation of animals, as well as erotic and militant motifs. Then it developed into a silent performance (M. Critchley. Sign language); Dances in Rome were of national importance, and when famine threatened, Constantius expelled all the philosophers from Rome and recruited three thousand dancers and dancers who alone could tame the rebellious spirit of the crowd (N. Vashkevich. History of choreography); Here, in Frankfurt, a feast was given in an absolutely exceptional setting… Not less than three thousand toasts were made to all of them; then the tables were bolted up, and all the electors danced on the tables, with the lame Marshal Gramont leading the way (San Salvator. Don Juan on the throne); but she was already clinging to him, and he took her by the waist. Her hand was on his shoulder, her cheek brushing lightly against his chin. He felt her rounded, smooth thighs, the soft warmth of her breasts, and all his senses were aroused by the exciting closeness. Zionil Jose. My brother, my executioner); what was the point of dancing then, Quan Meng wondered. Hed always thought they danced for the pleasure of touching, of feeling a womans body under their hands. Its not for nothing that dancing is called cheap excitement. Or, as someone used to say in school, the vertical expression of horizontal desire (Go Bosen. If you dream too long); Once at the Mischievous Club, he (Lord David Derry Moir) happened to make two women dance in their arms (V. Hugo. The man who laughs); Dancing a completely naked lady, the Egyptian goddess Isis. There is no leotard on her, absolutely au naturel (P. Gnedich. In the twentieth century); But a dancer in gold coins, As in scales, as in dewdrops, She knows nothing else, And can neither read nor count… But the golden ribbons twine, And the wild diamonds of Her false nakedness sparkle so that the audience in the hall has long forgotten That she was born only for dancing. Yes! only for dancing! (P. Eluard. The art of dancing); And your every impulse and gesture in the shade of trees, And light dances, sweeping up streams of roses, carry a rhythmic melody of worlds (E. Verharn. Praise the human body).
DANCE LAMENT FOR THE DECEASED Ethiopian ritual female dance (among the Amhara people). See musho.
DANCE MACABRE see dance of death.
DANCE OF APIS (OSIRIS) ancient Egyptian ritual dance associated with the worship of the Nile River. Performed by priestesses. Wide arm movements with jumps, twirling movements, prostration in front of the statue of the deity.
DANCE OF BAAL Assyro Babylonian ritual dance. It was performed in the temple by priests who moved in a round dance around the statue of the deity with each individual circling.
DANCE OF BLACK WITCHCRAFT ancient Greek dance. "Like the dance of black witchcraft, which is danced at night against the sun around what they want to damage?" Thais asked, and Delosei nodded in the affirmative. Thais of Athens).
DANCE OF DEATH see dance of death.
DANCE OF INNOCENCE an ancient Greek dance that young girls performed naked before the altar of Diana, with gentle and modest poses, slow and sedate steps. According to legend, the beautiful Princess Elena was dancing this dance when Theseus saw her and kidnapped her.
DANCE OF PARTING folk dance of the Santiai people (in Vietnam).
DANCE OF PYTHAGORAS see Pythagorean dances.
DANCE OF ST. VITUS (Witts dance) originally, it is assumed, a ritual dance in Austria, on the feast of St. Witts Day, June 15 (now meaning "nervous disease"). There are reports that the games and dances held around bonfires were violent in the past, with the dancers falling into a state of ecstasy. Perhaps the fun once had the magical purpose of exorcising evil demons. Probably, this was the basis for the popular name of epilepsy and chorea "dance of St. John the Baptist". Witta " (Calendar customs and rituals in foreign Europe).
DANCE OF THE AMAZONS a broad, flowing ancient Greek dance performed at an accelerating pace by a woman on a horse. Once upon a time, I saw Tessalieks performing the dance of the Amazons. How beautiful it was… "I am willing to pay the talent of the one who can perform the dance of the Amazons..." The Theban raised a tambourine above her head and attracted the attention of those present with sharp blows… Thais burst into the brightly lit circle on Salmaahs back... Thais got down on one knee at full gallop, turned over to face the tail, stretched out on her back, hugging the wide, steep neck of the mare. Then she would rear her horse again, and Salmaah would turn quickly and beautifully, making two turns in different directions... Hesionas tambourine, falling to the rhythms of a proud dance, led the roll call with hoofbeats. Salmaach, obeying the hetaeras knees, tapped all four hooves on the echoing wood... the paired blows became more frequent, the horse then rushed forward, then crouched back. Thais leaned back, arching her body and directing her breasts to the dark sky (I. Yefremov. Thais of Athens).
DANCE OF THE BISON (BISON) ritual dance of the North American Indians (mandans). Eight men in buffalo skins, with their heads and horns, are dancing, imitating the movements of these animals. The others, dressed in the skins of various animals, jump and circle around the main participants. "Dont laugh," my father said, " just in case its magic! What if its an ancient buffalo dance? In ancient times, bison taught this dance to our ancestors, and we still keep the memory of it" (D. Schultz. Lone Bison error).
DANCE OF THE DRAGONS Chinese dance. See shua luon tao.
DANCE OF THE FIVE DANCERS (gosechi, gozente) Japanese court dance. It was performed at the time of the eleventh moon on the occasion of the feast of the first taste of rice of the new harvest or on the occasion of the first offering of new rice to the newly ascended emperor. According to legend, Emperor Tenmu was in his palace when the celestial maidens descended to him and performed this dance. Dancing girls, the daughters of prominent dignitaries, gathered for this holiday.
DANCE OF THE FOUR FOUNDATIONS ancient Greek cult dance. It was performed by priestesses in the temple of the goddess Isis, who held a mirror, flowers, and incense in their hands. With a gesture of gratitude and delight. Oscillating movements to the left and right with the whole body.
DANCE OF THE GRAPE GATHERERS ancient Greek dance. Choreographic image of a dancer picking grapes, pressing them with his feet, filling barrels, drinking wine. Wed. to Friday.
DANCE OF THE GREAT MOTHER antique dance. "Show them, Eris, please, some of the dances of the Great Mother," Thais said. Eris raised her hands above her head, folding them in a special way, palms up, and slowly began to arch back, fixing her eyes on her chest. When the dark tips of her steppes-wide breasts rose vertically, as if pointing to the zenith of the sky, Eris turned her face to the right and, beating the rhythm with her right foot, began to turn from right to left, lifting and stretching her right leg for balance... Thais accelerated the rhythm of the chant. Without changing her position, Eris spun from one side to the other, her bare feet moving imperceptibly… Thais clapped her hands to stop Eris, who straightened up with a jerk and froze. Thais of Athens).
DANCE OF THE HORNS english ritual folk male dance. Interesting, for example, is the "dance of the horns", performed by the guys in the city of Stafford on the temple holiday of September 4… 12 people participated in the dance: six of them threw deer skins over their shoulders, attached horns to their heads (they represented deer); the other six were traditional masks of English mummers... The dancers went around with their original dance to all the surrounding farms and some houses in the city, and in the afternoon they started dancing in the town square and passed with him on all streets (Calendar customs and rituals in foreign Europe).
DANCE OF THE JAGUAR festive theatrical performance in masks of the Kakchikeli Indian nation (in Guatemala).
DANCE OF THE KORIBANTS (KURETOV) ancient Greek frenetic sacred dance of the priests of Cibela to the beat of drums, the sounds of trumpets, pipes and other musical instruments, with sword strikes on their shields, with frenzied gestures, with screams and howls, mourning the death of Adonis. See and cf. adonitis. The noise and uproar of maidens laughing, Musicians banging on brass, Corybantes Jumping and dancing To shrill tunes (A. Fet. Zeus).
DANCE OF THE LITTLE DUCKLINGS childrens dance, popular in the 80s of the XX century. An image of ducklings wings bent at the elbows, patting themselves on the sides, squatting, moving in a circle counterclockwise.
DANCE OF THE MOTHER OF GOD a dance performed in churches in Spain on the feast of the Virgin Mary, etc. Today, the only remaining theatrical acts of this kind (from the feasts of Corpus Christi) are the participation of young singers and dancers in Mass, the so-called seises... Justifying this custom, which comes from the ancient dances of the Dionysian type, theologians ... justified the dances in the temple by telling about the dance of King David in front of the Ark of the Covenant… Especially noticeable was the participation of young singers in the celebration of the Assumption of the Virgin, the immaculate conception of Mary and the Nativity of Christ (Calendar customs and rituals in foreign European countries); In Valleruela de Pedraza, in front of the image of the Virgin in the 20s of our century, eight young men performed a "sword dance" to the sounds of castanets (ibid.); A Solemn minuet, performed by small dancers from the Nuestra Senhora Del Pilar Church, they also liked it. The Infanta had never seen this amazing rite performed annually in honor of the Blessed Virgin before Her high throne... the Infanta knew only by hearsay about the "dance of the Virgin" and found it really very beautiful. The dancing boys were dressed in old court costumes of white velvet and fancy cocked hats… Everyone was charmed by the dignity and dignity with which they performed the intricate dance figures, the exquisite grace of their slow gestures and stately bows... Wilde. Infantas birthday).
DANCE OF THE NECKLACE ancient Greek dance. Boys and girls dance one to one, holding hands and forming a necklace. The dance is opened by a young man who jumps, takes warrior poses; a girl performs modest steps. This dance expresses the idea of the union of male power and female modesty. Wed. gormos.
DANCE OF THE PRIESTESSES OF DEMETER ancient Greek sacred dance. Theodatha struck the strings of her cithara, beginning with a solemn chord the temple dance of the priestesses of Demeter. To simple, strict sounds, Timandra performed a dance composed of smooth steps, hand movements, and kneeling before the goddess (y. Toman, M. Tomanova. Socrates).
DANCE OF THE SACRED TRIANGLES ancient Greek ritual dance. "We were all taught the art of balance in the school of the Hetaera of Corinth, without which it is impossible to perform the dance of the sacred triangles" ... Leaning on the horse with her right hand, she [Thais] began to perform a strange ritual dance. Climbing on the toes of her right foot, the hetaera raised her left foot high, wrapping her ankle with her outstretched left hand. The copper body of Thais curved with a bow outlined a triangle, as if the letter "gamma" was closed at the top... Then both hands stretched out at shoulder level in time with the strong deflection of the body, and the right leg moved to the position of the left. And again, for a moment, a triangle was formed (I. Efremov. Thais of Athens).
DANCE OF THE SATYRS (SILENUS) an ancient Greek and Roman dance in which dancers were dressed in goat skins. Imitating the goats movements. As soon as Sullas swearing stopped, he was always known for his rough speech and flat jokes, the musicians began to play again, and together with the mimes and dancers who sang along with them, they began to dance the satyr dance (R. Giovagnoli. Spartak).
DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS dance of antiquity, voluptuous nature. Correlate with belly dancing and striptease. It is depicted in R. Strausss opera "Salome" as very erotic. Salome dances the dance of the seven veils. Wilde. Salome); Antis, a dancer in Lydia, has seven veils around her body. She tears off the yellow veil, and her black curls fall apart, the pink veil slipping from her lips. The white veil lets you see her hands. She frees her small breasts by untying her red veil. She pulls the blue one off her shoulders, but presses the last transparent veil to her nakedness. The young men are begging her. She throws her head back. At the sound of flutes alone, Antis breaks it, first a little, then completely ... (Bilitis. Dance of flowers).
DANCE OF THE STARS an ancient Egyptian dance of a complex nature, performed by priests moving around the altar of the Sun from east to west, who used gestures to represent the signs of the zodiac. Cf. astronomical dances, space dances.
DANCE OF THE SUN ancient indian ritual dance. At first light, the dancers performed rapid gyrations in complete silence.
DANCE OF THE WOLF ritual dance of shamans among the Nootka Indian people (in Canada and the USA).
DANCE WITH A BUNCH OF LONG FEATHERS IN YOUR HANDS dance of the Totiki Indian people (in Mexico).
DANCE WITH A FAN korean folk dance for women. Each dancing girl has very large fans in both hands. The pace is average. It is performed to fun tunes in the theater, on a holiday or at an important event.
DANCE WITH A HORSES TAIL Cameroonian dance. About twenty wives with their tails in their hands formed a large circle. The Fon stepped forward and stood in the center; he waved his horses tail, the band began to play, and the dance began. Of all the background dances, the horse-tailed dance was undoubtedly the most passionate and beautiful. It had a special rhythm: small drums beat out a clear staccato beat, large ones thundered muted, and bamboo flutes filled with a shrill melody that seemed completely out of harmony with the drumming, but, however, perfectly merged with it. To this tune, the wives of the background slowly spun in a clockwise circle, beating out a rapid drum with their feet and lightly moving their horses tails in front of their faces. At the same time, the background danced inside the circle in the opposite direction, bending, bouncing and spinning in a curious way, as if he had no joints at all, and his hand with flexible movements of the hand twisted the horses tail in the air in intricate waves... The graceful flapping of the horses tails and slow whirling had a hypnotic effect... (J. Darrell. Zoo in my luggage).
DANCE WITH A SHAWL (TRANSLATED BY FR. PAS DE CH?LE) ballroom womens dance in the XIX century. Two or three ladies danced gracefully in the middle of the room, performing various manipulations with light shawls. In the 19th century, the shawl dance was always studied at the institutes of noble girls and performed at graduation balls by the best students. As for the shawl dance, its the most exciting thing anyone has ever seen! What was going on here! Everything was a whirlwind. Skirts rattled, fans flashed, ladies got entangled in garlands of artificial flowers, gentlemen bade them (Ch. Dickens. Essays by Boz).
DANCE WITH BOTTLES (ON THEIR HEADS) Hungarian folk dance for women, slow, smooth character. Accompanied by rhythmic tapping of heels. Sometimes performers accompany the dance with singing.
DANCE WITH CANDLES AND SAUCERS a common Indonesian household dance (Sumatra Island). A seated dancer makes complex movements with her hands, holding lighted candles on saucers. Performed in the evening.
DANCE WITH COLORED LANTERNS chinese folk dance.
DANCE WITH HATCHETS old Slovak folk male dance (in mountainous areas). Performed by a different number of participants. High jumps, squats, and the use of sticks are typical. It doesnt have a specific composition. The moves are technically challenging; the dancers compete in agility. Other names of this dance are: haiduk, odzemok, yano Shikovsky.
DANCE WITH LONG DRUMS Chinese dance (Yao nationality). The dance has an ancient origin. Slow pace. Several men are dancing and beating two-meter-long round drums.
DANCE WITH PAINTED DRUMS chinese womens dance. Performed by girls from 20 to 40 in elegant silk clothes red, yellow, green. They drum themselves; the tempo is very fast. Performed on stage.
DANCE WITH SICKLES tajik dance. The performer dances by circling two sickles around the head, putting them to the temples, to the eyes, etc.
DANCE WITH STICKS tajik male dance. A pair of dancers, each holding a stick, make fencing moves with it.
DANCE WITH STRAW HATS chinese folk group dance (Li nationality). The pace is average. Performed in nature.
DANCE WITH THE DISH tajik dance. The dancer manipulates the dish during the dance, in particular, carrying it on his back in a horizontal position, walking in a circle, clicking stones.
DANCE WITH THE EAGLE spanish ritual dance. In some cities of Catalonia, a solemn dance was performed on the way to the church with a large gilded eagle figure carried by three people.… Both the secular and ecclesiastical administrations were tolerant of dancing with the eagle... (Calendar customs and rituals in the countries of foreign Europe).
DANCE WITH TORCHES Norwegian ritual dance. Wed. fakeltants.
DANCE WITH TSYUPAGAMI Polish dance with ice axes, Polish mountaineers. Wed. hajduk, gural, zbuynicki, dance with hatchets.
DANCING OF DEATH dances performed during funerals. Someone had died in this village, so we couldnt be received by its chief until the funeral ceremonies were over. These ceremonies last about four hours and consist of dancing, followed by lamentations, and then a feast (D. Livingston. Travel and exploration in South Africa); When someone dies, the body of the deceased is kept in a hut for several days, and there is a real competition between men and women in the drumming, dancing, and drunkenness that accompany the feast (ibid.); Funeral dances followed the feast (J. R. R. Tolkien). Correct. Captain Grants children). Wed. mukuari, musho, funeral dances.
DANCING ON COALS festive dances of the Tsotzili Indian tribe (in Mexico). Wed. dance of old women.
DANCING WITH BELLS Indonesian folk dances (Minankabau people).
DANCING WITH THE SNAKE antique dance. Yes, Thais also remembered an amazing dance with a snake at the end. A tall, slender, extremely lithe Nubian and Babylonian, pale-skinned and voluptuous, with the impression that the coils of a black snakes body were actually wrapped around a white girl. The black "snake" seemed to rise from behind its "victim", laying its head on her shoulder, then rose from the ground, slipping between the legs of the Babylonian woman (I. Efremov. Thais of Athens).
DANDIYA RAS (from danda "musical instrument two sticks with or without bells, which are struck against each other") is an Indian dance, common in the state of Gujarat. Men and women perform complex dance patterns in accordance with the rhythm set by the blows of the above-mentioned sticks.
DANDRUFF (perhisa, perhisuli) (from gruz. pekhi ("foot") is an ancient Georgian male round dance, usually accompanied by the singing of a choir. A large place is occupied by foot movements. It exists in a cult and dance form. The pace changes from slow to very fast. Cf. Georgian dances in A. Rubinsteins opera "The Demon".
DANETS bulgarian folk dance for women. Performers move in a snake pattern.
DANGER Bulgarian folk mixed dance of the Dobrudja region. The name is given by the element of the dance holding each other by the belt; movements on the heels are characteristic.
DANILA KUPOR a dance popular in Russia in the second half of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. (part of a country dance). The pace is moderately fast. ... The cheerful, challenging sounds of Danila Kupor were heard, similar to a cheerful chatterbox (L. Tolstoy. War and peace).
DANISH ONES cadedance
DANSA (Spanish: Danza "dance") is a Cuban and Mexican pair dance. Descended from the European country dance, known in Cuba since the end of the XVIII century. The pace is moderate and moderately fast. Musical size 2/4. Was popular in the early XX century. Close to habanera. The cavalier and the lady in the dance do not touch each other.
DANSE DU VENTRE see belly dance.
DANSON Danzon (Spanish: "big dance") is a Cuban folk pair dance with a distinctive syncopated rhythm. A stately and relaxed character. A cavalier and a lady in an embrace. Small steps, in particular chasse steps (with one foot against the other), flexion and extension of the legs. Music size 2/4. Known since the end of the 19th century, it dates back to country dance and dansa. The music machine was playing a danson, and the hallways were dim. Fuentes. A calm conscience).
DAPHNIDIA ancient Greek dance pantomime depicting the transformation of Daphne into a laurel tree. It is assumed that it was performed by a duet of a man and a woman.
DATA COLLECTION Bulgarian male folk dance of the Dobrudja region. The dancers hold hands crossed in front of each other, and sometimes they make complex or simple foot movements. The line of dancers moves forward, backward, right and left; "lu, lu, lu"is shouted.
DAVLURI georgian group folk dance. Performed in pairs. Men in black robes, women in long white dresses and veils. In the middle of the dance, the best couple who performs as a soloist is singled out; the other couples join in the dance and clap their hands.
DE GAGE the transfer of the body weight from one leg to the other in the second position (right, left) and in the fourth position of the legs (forward, backward) can be performed both with demi plie and on outstretched legs.
DECOYS (mankis) (English monkey "monkey") modern pair improvisational dance of American origin. Antics that mimic the movements of a monkey are characteristic. The pace is moderately fast. Music size 4/4.
DEEP BODY BEND lean your torso forward below 90°, keeping your torso and arms straight.
DEEP CONTRACT strong compression in the center of the body, which involves all the joints, i.e. this movement includes the arms, legs and head.
DEEVELOPPE (develope) "opening", "unfolded", from the stoics to the left, right sliding movement to the bent position (toe at the knee) and extending it in any direction (forward, sideways, backward) or higher.
DEGAJE "transition" from a stand on the left right forward to the toe, step forward through a half-squat in the IV position, straightening up, stand on the right, left back, on the toe. From the stand on the left, right to the side on the toe, step to the side through the half-squat on the II position stand on the right, left to the side on the toe.
DEINOS (Greek. "extraordinary, skillful") is an ancient Greek dance in tragedy with very elevated movements and poses (hands raised to the sky, etc.).
DEMI Demi Plie a semi-squat where the heels dont leave the floor.
DEMI PLIE (Demi plieh) incomplete "squat".
DEMI ROND (demi rond) incomplete circle, semi-circle (with the toe on the floor, at 45, 90° and above).
DEMIROND semicircle with the toe of the foot on the floor forward and to the side, or back and to the side.
DENGAKU (Japanese. "field games") is an ancient Japanese ritual dance game; a Japanese dance of an entertaining nature.
DEPOLIES ancient Greek ritual dance. It was danced by the Spartans at solemn festivals.
DETVIANSKA DIGITIVOCHKA Slovak folk dance, both female and male, is largely improvisational.
DEUTSCH (GERMAN FOR "GERMAN") German dance, goes back to Lendler.
DEVADASIS DANCE Indian ritual dance of sacred prostitutes in the temple. Sample in A. Adans ballet "Giselle". Each temple has its own en titre dancers, who are usually public women. On feast days, they perform voluptuous dances in front of the idol . Noel. Mythological dictionary); Jingling when dancing belts, bayadere, lowered Under the weight of sacred fans in exhaustion hands, You garlands of eyes, black bees, throw in gratitude ... (Kalidasa. Cloud Messenger); a few steps away from me, bayadere girls with beautiful black eyes squatted near the musicians, waiting for the signal to start dancing. As soon as it rang out, the dancers stood up, unfolded their long scarves, straightened their short skirts, and jingled the bells that decorated their anklets like bracelets. After the opening chorus, which was accompanied by a flute and the deafening sounds of tam tam, they formed a semicircle, and one of them slowly began to approach the audience. Raising her arms and gracefully circling them above her head, she began to spin; the light fabrics rustled, the bells on her feet rang louder, the noisy music now turned into a singsong and soft melody, she seemed to be lulling the bayadere, whose eyes were half-closed, and her movements became slower and lazier. The bayaderes alternated one after another; one represented a snake tamer, another whirled quickly and passionately like a whirlwind, and a third slowly stepped out, coquettishly curving its entire body. They ended their dances with a lively circular dance, accompanied by singing. There was nothing rude or immoral about their dancing... (L. Roussel).
DHAKA ALHABB womens songs and dances associated with the ritual of harvesting in the countries of Southern Arabia.
DHIKR (Arabic. "mention, recall, dance") is an ancient Arabic and Turkmen vocal dance genre, the dance of conjuring evil spirits. Either men or women perform, repeating the name of Allah. The dancers stand in a circle close to each other, swaying in place in time to the singing and clapping their hands. Then, at a slow pace, they begin to move smoothly in a circle; the movement accelerates and turns into a run. The dance is performed on Fridays and special days.
DIONYSIA ancient Greek dances during the festival in honor of Dionysus (Bacchus), the same as the Bacchanalian dances. The priestesses of this mystical cult were women called maenads... in memory of the nymphs who taught Dionysus Bacchus. At night, by torchlight, a fantastic procession was arranged. Flutes, sistrums, triangles, tympanums, and cymbals mingled with the chaotic chanting and yelling of the" frantic " maenads, who danced with their bodies bent far back and raced rapidly forward… But when the procession reached the gods altar, the maenads performed a more or less regular mimic dance… The maenad dance consisted of various tilts of the body and head, and most importantly, a whole system of movements of the arms and hands, which obviously contained some meaning that was completely incomprehensible to us… As for the pas, which were made by maenads, it can be noted that there were no jumps or pointe shoes, and all of them were limited to one twisting on half-pointe shoes, and the movements of the dance consisted in running back and forth in a circle one after another (N. Vashkevich. History of choreography); Maenads race through the forest that grows along the seashore. Maskalae, fierce-chested, howls, shaking a sycamore-made phallus. They are all covered with bassaris and crowned with vine leaves, and they run and shout as they jump. The crotals click in their hands, and the thyrses tear the skin of the ringing tympanums. Wet-haired, swift-footed, with beating red breasts, sweaty cheeks, foaming lips, they offer You back the love You breathed into them (Bilitis. Maenads). Wed. bacchanals, bacchanalian dances.
DIPODIES an ancient Greek martial Spartan dance in which the legs served as an offensive weapon.
DIPODISMOS Ancient Greek Spartan dance in tragedy, view of Emmelia.
DITHYRAMB one of the dances of Dionysius (see).
DIVERTISSEMENT (fr. "entertainment") entertainment performance consisting of dance numbers. In the subsequent mazurka divertimento… I liked it so much that the audience demanded a repeat (Severnaya Pchela newspaper, 1859, No. 223).
DOG DANCE dance of North American Indians as a mystical performance with comic imitations of the actions of dogs, paw movements, rolling on the ground, biting.
DOGER Indonesian sensual dance performed by torchlight. Senen Kramat is bubbling all night. You cant tell whos poor and whos rich. Money spills parvenu ha ha! He orders expensive dishes. Look: theres the rickshaw Amat ha ha! Dougherty dances, too. Doger and beer, doger and beer. And you can forget who is sad (Dart, Ami Sidart. Night on Senen Kramate); That night we doger danced a feverish, violent dance and wild tongues darted over the red faces of the fire. The drum thundered hard, and my heart was torn in pursuit of my fragile, indefatigable, cheerful dancer (Aip Rosidi. Doger).
DOMBA song and dance genre of the Venda tribe in South Africa. Villagers usually express their joy by singing and dancing. The usual dance of the local people is that the men, almost naked, holding clubs or small axes in their hands, form a circle, and each of them shouts as loudly as possible, and all of them simultaneously raise one leg, stamp it hard twice, then raise the other leg and stamp it once;…their hands and heads are always in motion. A deafening, unimaginable roar is continuously maintained throughout the dance. The constant stomping raises clouds of dust… The white-haired men also took part in this, and with as much fervor as the others… Matibe asked me what I thought of the makololo dance. I answered: "Its very hard work, and it doesnt do much good." "Yes," he said, " but it is very beautiful, and Sekeletu will give us a bull for dancing for him." During the dance, women stand side by side, clapping their hands, and sometimes one of them enters a circle consisting of hundreds of men, makes several movements and moves away (D. Livingston. Travel and research in South Africa).
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC bachata
DON POLKA see Polka donskoy.
DOWNHILL solemn marching dance of the Crimean Tatars. Compare the militant dance of the Crimean Tatars in the ballet of B. Asafyev "The Fountain of Bakhchisarai".
DRAUGHTSMAN DANCE tajik Pamir male dance. A belligerent character, with sharp movements, with a naked saber in one hand and a scabbard in the other, which the dancer turns above his head and to the sides. Dance with a sword in your mouth, run with the blade of the sword at the very eyes.
DREER (from the German drehen "twirl, wrap") Austrian waltz-like folk dance; German folk dance, close to the waltz and lendler. ... They eat and drink, coming out of an exalted state and soon entering that pleasant feeling when a neighbor, snuggling up to his neighbor, seeks security and believes that he finds it, and it seems that every small artificial step required by convention sinks into a large cave in which fate beats a powerful beat with a bronze fist (E. Hoffmann. Poet and composer).
DREISHTEYRER german folk dance performed by a threesome. In the middle is a young man, and on either side of him are two girls. Performing various figures, the dancers hold hands at the beginning and end of the dance, and in the middle of the dance they separate them. Several triplets can participate in the dance. Cf. steyrer.
DROP fall of the relaxed torso forward or to the side.
DRUM DANCE Burmese dance. On Kaba Ei Street, a platform was erected on which several people performed a drum dance. The host, holding a drum, sang, " If you play the drum too much, Ill divorce you, my wife said." A wise teacher).
DUBKA fast male and female dance in Syria and Lebanon. Accompanied by singing and clapping of hands.
DUCEZ Croatian folk dance; mixed, but sometimes danced only by women or only by men. Performers stand in a line or semicircle. The pace is average. Among the elements of the dance are jumps and springboard movements on the spot.
DUCK russian round dance game and song.
DUDE (French "dove") a French dance, similar to the ecosaise (see).
DUNE RANKE serbian folk dance. Similar to divna, divna (see).
DUPAC czech folk pair or mass pair dance. The movement of pairs in a circle is counterclockwise. The couple is facing each other, the young man is holding the girls waist with his right hand, her left hand is on his right shoulder, his left and her right hand are joined and extended. The pair rotates clockwise, performing jumps, stoops; later in pairs, the right hands are taken and the girl rotates under the raised right hands, while simultaneously bypassing the young man around. The pace is average.
DUTCH ONES matlot
EASY ROUND DANCE a type of dance among the southern Slavs, in which an unequal number of movements is made: two steps to the right, one to the left, and so on.
ECARTE classical dance pose (a la seconde), deployed diagonally forward or backward, the body slightly deviated from the raised leg.
ECO-SEASON (Fr.? cossaise "Scottish") Scottish folk dance, a kind of country dance; later in the XVIII century. and further ballroom dance. Graceful and playful. It is characterized by a particularly complex system of movements in two lines. Samples of the plays of the same name by L. Beethoven, F. Schubert. Once Guslikov instructed Suslikov to write an eco-sketch for the ball (D. Grigorovich. Kapellmeister Suslikov).
ECUADORIAN COMPANIES amorphino, guarandella, dansante, cachugliapi, pasillo, sanjuanito, yumbo
EGYPTIAN ONES ad dera, az zar, al hagalah, anahla, at tahtab, kafr al Arab, mitaub
EH, YABLOCHKO, WHERE ARE YOU GOING? YOULL GET IN MY MOUTH you will not return (a song to the tune of this dance).
EIGHTS Russian folk dance (Kostroma region), a type of quadrille. Music size 2/4.Tempo is medium. Elements of round dances are included. Wed. chetvera, shestera, osmer.
EKATERII ekateros (Greek: "each one separately") is an ancient Greek household dance in which the hands perform many different movements.
EKONGO african congolese magic dance. Dancers with painted faces are holding an axe and an arrow (or knife). It is executed if someone died without illness, in order to identify who is responsible for his death. During the dance, one of the dancers falls into ecstasy, and from his speech it is clear who the culprit is.
EKOSEZ WALTZ Scottish waltz, lively, with a special step.
EMMELIA (emmeleia) (Greek: emmeleia "harmony in singing", "harmony, dance") a smooth, sedate, slow dance in ancient Greek tragedy (from the ritual eumeleia), with large, broad gestures. It existed in several varieties. Emmelia expressed high, noble feelings, fiery passions, portrayed the deeds of the gods, being serious and majestic. Dancers often made such figures as raising their hands to the sky, lowering their joined hands from top to bottom, carrying baskets of flowers, etc.
EMVO1TE [AMBUATE] consecutive transitions from foot to foot on half fingers, fingers and with a jump. Jumping emboite alternately throwing the legs bent at the knees forward or 45°.
EMVOITE [AMBUATE] consecutive transitions from foot to foot on half fingers, fingers and with a jump. Jumping emboite alternately throwing the legs bent at the knees forward or 45°.
EN DEDANS the direction of movement or turning towards yourself, inwards. EN DEHORS [en deor] direction of movement or turning away from oneself or outwards.
EN DEHORS direction of movement or turning away from yourself or outwards.
ENGLISH anglaise, english chain, english, english waltz, ground, jig, jig, quickstep, country dance, lambeth walk, lancier, longway, matlot, mezher, morris, pogo, reel, roger de coverly, synkspace, skate, horn dance, ferridance, hey, hornpipe, shake
ENGLISH CHAIN (translated from French by Chaine anglaise) quadrille figure. ...Behind him, the fading sounds of the quadrille tickled my nerves. Just now, they were dancing chaine anglaise (to. Mixat. The story of Nosti Jr. and Maria Toth).
ENGLISH WALTZ English national waltz type. The waltz had many varieties: Viennese, English, Hungarian, Mazurka waltz, mignon waltz, etc. (Balls and holidays in Russia).
EPAULMENT the position of the dancer turned 3/4 in t. 8 or t. 2; there is a difference between epaulement croise (closed) and epaulement efface (erased, open).
EPIBEMA (from the Greek. epi and bema ("move, step, footprint") is an ancient Greek dance of the chorus in the theater during the presentation of a tragedy. Type of emmelia (see).
EPICREDIOS ancient Greek ritual agricultural dance (on the island of Crete). They danced in the sown fields with weapons in their hands at a very fast pace.
EPIPHALLOS ancient Greek household dance. Dancers and female dancers challenge for an erotic fight. The movement is quite slow at first, but gradually increases the speed. Men and women rush to each other, cling to each other; then there is a flutter, a shout, and the dance ends in a bacchanal.
EROTIDEA ancient Greek dance in honor of Eros. Let us glorify the Muses born on the heights of Helicon; Their graceful feet move rhythmically around the altar of the son of Saturn, near a deep spring; Their light, voluptuous dance crowns the peaks of Helicon (Hesiod. Works and days).
ERSKO KOLO (I brdom) Serbian folk dance, mixed, with a different number of performers who perform various movements and figures (in a line and in a circle).
ESCARRAMAN old Spanish dance of the XV-XVI centuries. It looks like sarabande. I confess that I myself am a little obsessed with escarramana, but out of modesty and out of respect for the position in which I find myself, I do not dare to dance (M. Cervantes. Salamanca Cave).
ESCONDIDO escondido (Spanish: "hidden") is a Latin American, particularly Argentine, Creole dance. The lady seems to be hiding from the cavalier. Samakueka dance lessons, gato.
ESKIMO gull flight against the wind, successful hunting
ESMERALDA see polka gallop.
ESTALADINHO (eshtaladinyu) (will reduce. form from port. estalado "crackle, noise") an old Portuguese dance accompanied by singing. On this night of madness, Everyone dances the estaladinho… Estaladinho is beautiful, There is no other dance equal to it, and it is always welcome Here in Portugal (Portuguese song).
ESTAMPY (estampie), or estampida. Medieval instrumental form and dance from Provence. The Medieval author Johannes de Groheo mentions a stantype, possibly a Latinized name for an estampid. Each stantype consisted of a series of" dots " (puncti): each punctum (a term borrowed from rhetoric) consisted of two parts with the same beginnings (apertum) and different endings (clausum). An addition to the stantipe, according to Groheo, was ductia, which also consisted of" dots " to which they danced. The most famous example of estampi is the Kalenda Maya of Rambautsa de Vaqueiras, a charming melody borrowed from earlier estampi. Since most of the surviving estampi represent dance patterns, estampi can be considered one of the main dances of the Middle Ages.
ESTONIAN COMPANIES vyandra, inglizka, joksu polka, labayala waltz, pulga dance, targarekhsalune, yamaya labayalg
ESTRAMBOT (the name goes back to it. strambotta) an old European dance. Teacher too! Estrambotu wanted to show me yesterday So I have to tell you that he doesnt even know the score (Lope de Vega. Dance teacher).
ESTUDIANTINA (SPANISH: ESTUDIANTINA "STUDENT") filipino dance. It was performed by students of Manila private schools and colleges. As they danced, they held a book in one hand.
ETHIOPIAN gojam, gurage, musho, skyt
EUMELEIA (from the Greek. eu " perfect "and melos" melody, harmony") (emmeleia) is an ancient Greek ritual dance. A noble character.
EXCHANGE RATE old Russian folk dance, preserved in the North of Russia. Cf. blanzha.
EXERCISE FOR THE HANDS Be able to raise your hands up, right, left, down, sideways with or without an object.
EXERCISE WITH CHECKBOXES The movement is clearer. Be able to hold the checkbox correctly. Raise the flag up, the arm is bent in front of you, the elbow is at the bottom.
EXERCISE WITH HANDKERCHIEFS Movements in all directions are smooth and easy.
EXOR Buryat and Mongolian popular dance of an ancient nature, associated with rituals and singing. It can be circular or non-circular, fast or slow. Previously performed in connection with a successful hunt. Dancers hold hands. The pattern and tempo of the dance are different.
English dance in Russia during the reign of Catherine I. One of the varieties of anglaise. After completing the minuet, they danced Polish, tired it only with difficult knees and jumps of the new-fangled English (V. Druzhinin. In the name of Her Majesty).
FADO (fado, fadinho) (Portugal. fado "rock", fadinho will reduce. form; from lat. Fatum ("fate") is a Portuguese dance, later a Latin American dance based on an old Portuguese dance song. In its essence, a combination of various dances and songs of a voluptuous nature. In particular, it is associated with lundun, fofa, and fandango. Steps with jumps and kicks. Musical size 2/4. Portuguese fado is characterized by a sad touch, the beauty of the performers voice is important in the vocal part. Sample song "Coimbra city divine" from the movie "Age of Love". Let everyone sing the Portuguese Fadinho without delay, All people go now To hear it more than once (Portuguese song).
FAILLI (fi") "flying", SP 5 position right in front. Push 2 mya jump up, going down in a cross lunge left to the side, left hand up, right back push left and swing right back down jump up 2 hands down. 34. allegro (allegro) "fun", "joyful", a part of the lesson consisting of jumps, performed at a fast pace.
FAKELTANTS an old German dance that looks like a polonaise. The dancers carried torches. He practiced at lavish wedding celebrations. Wed. dance with torches.
FALICON Ancient Greek sacred dance dedicated to Dionysus. The sisters of Glaucus crowned themselves and Corinne with wreaths of wildflowers as they prepared for a ritual dance in honor of Dionysus. Glaucus began to play the aulos. His sisters, barefoot, in white peplos that reached to their knees, tied at the waist with red ribbons, and with their hair loosened, began a sacred dance on the grass, which gradually turned into wild leaps and orgiastic movements of bacchantes. Toman, M. Tomanova. Socrates).
FAN DANCE (engl. fan dance is an erotic female dance. A naked woman dances, holding two large fans of ostrich feathers in her hands and moving them, skillfully and masterfully covering herself with them.
FANDANGO Spanish dance of the 18th century in the size of 3/8, with the characteristic rhythmic accompaniment of castanets and guitars, originated in Southern Spain. Initially, fandango was a vocal dance form, with lyrics of love content. Variants of this dance are known in Spain under different names (for example, in Malaga, the fandango is called Malagenia). The earliest example of the use of dance in professional music is Glucks ballet Don Giovanni; this melody is quoted by W. A. Mozart in The Wedding of Figaro. Fandango is found in the works of R. Schumann, N. A. Rimsky Korsakov, I. Albenis and E. Granados.
FANDANGUILLO (Spanish: "little fandango") A South Spanish dance, a type of fandango.
FARANDOLA The French dance in size 6/8, originated in Provence. Dancers hold each others hands, forming a chain, and, following the leader, move through the streets, performing a variety of movements to the accompaniment of a flute and tambourine. Examples of the dance can be found in Sh.Gounod at the opera Mireille, U. J.Bizet in the suite from music to the Arlesian. The Spanish farandula is also a folk dance, and its name was applied to the divertissements containing the dance, which were performed between the second and third acts of the Spanish traditional drama.
FAROUK farruca is a Spanish Andalusian Gypsy dance, mostly performed by men. Double turns, heel tapping. Energetic character. Music size 2/4, 4/4. A type of flamenco.
FARRAK (from Spanish. farra ("noisy entertainment") is a Spanish dance.The gypsy girl jumped forward... and started dancing again. This time it was a slow farraka. The girl imitated the poses and gestures of a matador. Her lithe body swayed from side to side... (V. Holt. The Scarlet Robe); Pilar began to spin in a dance... that she had learned from Bianca. "This is farrak, Howard. Im fighting a bull right now. Look! I tease him... he lunges at me... I jump out of the way... and he sweeps past. The bull wants to kill me, and I want to kill him."
FARRAPEIRA (portug. "raggedy girl"," ragamuffin") is an old Portuguese dance. Inspired and rhythmic, performed with a guitar. It has common features with polka and quadrille.
FAST FOXTROT a type of foxtrot (see). Same as quick step Wed slow fox.
FERRY DANCE English folk dance. And when the guests asked for real Cornish dances, the Cornish people lined up and showed the visitors a folk ferry dance, which they performed to the accompaniment of specially invited musicians (V. Holt. Melisande).
FESTEJO Festejo is a Peruvian folk dance with features of African and Native American dance cultures. Simple melodic form, but complex rhythmic structure. Initially, it was a competition of men in a circle under the battle rhythms. At present, sensual movements are characteristic. Dancers follow the movement of the body for each sound of guitars, percussion instruments.
FIGURE WALTZ ballroom dance of the 70s of the XX century Basic waltzing movement, some figures with twists to the right and turns of the partner under the partners hand.
FILIPINO binasuan, binoyugan, imunan, itik itik, yakan, kalatong, kapit tendong, karinosa, Katsudoratan, Maglalatik, Oasivas, sayaw sa Bangko, sakuting, singkhil, subli, tachok, tinikling, Estudiantina
FINNISH ONES finland, letkis, letkis, polska, finnish polka
FINNISH POLKA Finnish dance, a variant of the polka. Participants are arranged in a circle. When dancing in pairs, there is a change of partners.
FIRE DANCE dance of the Indians of North America. Several women, standing in a row and holding hands, danced rhythmically around the fire (bonfire), moving back and forth until the fire was extinguished by them. After that, a dancer danced in the dark with a burning coal in his mouth, and the women continued to dance with him. The dance was accompanied by a drum and other instruments.
FIRMESA (Spanish: "firmness") Latin American creole dance. Samakueka dance lessons.
FISHERMENS DANCE guinean folk dance. The tempo is slow, accompanied by singing.
FLAMENCO flamenco (Spanish: "Flemish", "Gypsy") is the main style of Andalusian music and dance, in which expressive hand movements are made. Solo dance (not paired). It partly includes elements of Arabic and Gypsy music and dance culture. The leading role in this dance belongs to a woman. It is combined with singing and accompanied by playing the guitar, tapping castanets and snapping your fingers. Sample in A. Cranes ballet "Laurencia". Flamenco began, a fast dance so named because it resembled the behavior of soldiers returning from the Flemish wars. Noisy and free, it depicted the violent antics of soldiers engaged in looting... The musicians played more and more vividly, and people began to clap their hands. The gypsy woman took castanets out of her skirt pocket and clicked them to the beat of the music (V. Holt. The Scarlet Mantle); Gonzalon Torre took a flamenco lesson in the library (R. Valle Inclan. Summer Sonata); And like waves on the pier, hands beat in thick chords, flaming sounds replace the Russian sadness of flamenco (A. Dolsky. Guitar); Spain sleeps between the decks in the cradle, the cocoon of the guitar string is broken, the beautiful Flamenco bella came out, rocked her hips neither in rock nor in beat. From the Negroes syncopation, from the Moors build, flesh and soul Spain itself ...(A. Dolsky. Guitarist).
FLASHLIGHTS The hands should be in front of you, elbows down, fingers together, / as if holding an apple/, easily rotate the hands, without tension.
FLAT BACK tilt the torso forward, to the side (90°), back with a straight back, without bending the torso.
FLAT STEP a step where the entire foot is placed on the floor at the same time.
FLEX reduced foot, hand, or knees. FLIK [flick] smear the foot on the floor to the support leg.
FLIK smear the foot on the floor to the supporting leg.
FLING (English fling "throwing"; "liveliness, fun") Scottish dance of a fun and stormy nature, with energetic movements of the hands and feet. Wed. ecosez. Originally, a war dance that was danced on a small round shield after a victory. Two-stroke rhythm. In the UK, it is also referred to as Highland fling.
FLORSENBERG an old French dance. You promise and swear to tirelessly learn to dance all the quadrilles, namely: florsenberg, dervish, pistol, chimes, as well as sarabande, gigue and other dances... and without special instructions do not stop dancing until your clothes are soaked with sweat and foam appears on your lips (A. Dumas. Chevalier dHarmental).
FOFA Portuguese-Brazilian dance of the 18th century, sensual and cheeky, characterized by obscenity and voluptuousness in the choreographic part, rough body movements, and a variety of choreographic elements. It was distributed in Portugal. They assume his Negro origin. It was also danced in Brazil. From it there are variants of lundu, lundun. A certain Padre Manuel Franco was convicted for dancing fofa (which is an obscene dance) with women of bad reputation (Latin American music).
FOLGAR dances of West African (Guinean) women. Imagine, one evening, when the women were having fun dancing and having a folgar, as they call it in their language, suddenly from a small grove of trees... comes strange music… As soon as the women hear this chatter, they begin to tremble with fear and rush in all directions (P. Merime. Tamango).
FOLIA ("madness, stupidity") old Portuguese folk dance, from the 15th century. The pace is fast, the size is three-dimensional. In the beginning, it was a carnival dance (similar to moreska). It was performed by men dressed up as women, and behaved wildly and noisily. The accompaniment was castanets, rattles, etc. Later it became a passionate dance of love content. Samples in the works of F. Liszt, S. Rachmaninoff. ...He would have played better the usual sarabandas, chacons and folias, and would have collected as much as he could in a mug (m. Cervantes. A high-born scullery maid).
FOLISHON (French folichon "playful, funny, funny") a type of polka, fashionable at the end of the XIX century. It was performed at a fast pace. The car drummed, covered the folishon (Uspensky city. Homeless people).
FORK popular Armenian womens dance. Performed by two middle-aged women, stately and solemn, with headscarves. Raising your hand, circling. Wed. Armenian dances in A. Spendiarovs opera "Almast".
FORLANA (furlana, furlana) (from the name of the Italian province of Friuli) Italian folk dance (peasants and Venetian gondoliers). Music size 6/8, 6/4. The tempo is fast. Dotted rhythm (as in Sicilian or giga). It is similar to kolo (see). It was performed in one or two pairs. The movements are fervent, the dynamism and excitement of the dancers increase. Flirting and courtship figures. The dance is reflected in A. Campras opera "Carnival of Venice". They danced forlana with a bounce, with a large movement of the hands back and forth over the heads (M. Formon. Princess of Venice).
FOUETTE a turn technique in which the performers body turns towards the leg that is fixed in a certain position (on the floor or in the air).
FOXTROT Originally a fast dance in two-step size, performed somewhat slower than the one-step, after which the foxtrot became popular in the United States around 1912. After the First World War, due to the spread of the "jazz style" in dance music, the term "foxtrot" began to refer to any dance music similar to jazz in a bipartite size (except Latin American tango and conga). In the 1920s, various types of foxtrot were popular, quickly replacing each other, including Charleston and black bottom. In the early 1930s, the quieter slow fox ("slow foxtrot") appeared, but then, from about 1936, the swing style became increasingly popular, with its passionate obsession with dance, when the dancer was guided by only a few basic movements and almost had complete freedom for improvisation. A very simple slow foxtrot remained in use throughout the 1960s.
FRACTIONAL STEP It is performed rhythmically on the entire foot, for every 1/8 beat. Feet parallel, knees slightly bent. Traffic can be performed on-site and in different directions.
FRAME RATE dialect name of a quadrille; also the name of a round dance (in some regions). Cut down the pines, cut down the firs, Start shooting (song).
FRENCH CANCAN is the American name for a cancan. "O Sena, the beauty of a long time ago! Oh, "French Cancan"! " drops the father, abandoned by the wind from the Hudson (Zh. Prever. The Seine that met Paris).
FRENCH ONES bergerette, branle, brolle, bourret, boutade, gavotte, gallop, gallop, quadrille, cancan, carmagnola, carole, correntucia, cotillion, lanzade, lura, matassin, matradura, minuet, momerie, moresca, musette, paris quadrille, passier, peregourdine, pijonette, rigodon, rondo, sabotiere, tambourine, tampet, trakenar, trikore, trikote, farandola, florsenberg, folishon, french quadrille, french cancan, fricassee, chaloupe, shawt, java
FRENCH QUADRILLE a kind of quadrille of six figures. Two couples or an even number of them dance. Couples stand in two lines, located at a distance of five or six steps from each other. She (Avdotya Yegorovna) sat down at the piano herself and began to play a French quadrille, inviting the guests to dance (A. Pisemsky. Rich groom).
FRICASSEE an old French dance with irregular figures. The folk dancer Courmilleswirls, depicting a funny dance of the suburbs. Soon, the princesses dainty legs join in the dance and compete with her, chipping off the fricassee. This is no longer a minuet that is danced at the tips of your fingers with graceful, respectful bows. It is the grasping and tugging, the bending and swaying of a body full of the most ardent desires (L. Brown. Letters from the Marquise).
FRISHKA (weng. friska) the second, fast part of the chardash (incendiary pair dance). See chardash, lashan.
FROG POSITION a sitting position in which the legs bent at the knees touch each other with the feet, the knees should be opened as much as possible to the sides,
FUNERAL DANCES ancient Greek ritual dances performed at solemn funerals. A select group of dignitaries dressed in long white robes, each holding an asphodel branch, a symbol of mourning, began the procession. Two rows of young men walked in front of the coffin, which was surrounded by virgins in white veils, all wearing wreaths of myrtle and holding branches of myrtle; they danced a majestic dance to mournful music. Behind them, the yellow-robed priests walked slowly and steadily, their arms crossed over their chests.
FURIANT (Czech. "pridets, zaznaika") is a Czech folk dance, mobile, with a whimsical rhythm. It can be paired or with three performers. In the latter case, the young man is in the middle, and the two girls are on either side of him. He turns the girls towards or away from him. Musical sizes 2/4 and 3/4 are combined. Sample in B. Smetanas opera "The Sold Bride".
FURIOSO (Spanish for "frantic") an old Spanish dance. I can dance furioso, if they give me a chance… When my heartstrings are torn by Insane jealousy threats (Lope de Vega. Dance teacher).
FURYU japanese dance (dance performance). "To come to Nagoya and not see the girls dance here is simply unacceptable," said Morihiko (Shimuzuki Toson. Family).
FURYU ODORI Japanese folk dance of a fun character, different types.
GABLEISHIMBIR dance of the countries of northeast Africa, depicting the flight of a flock of birds.
GAITATS Azerbaijani male dance, incendiary whirlwind.
GALLIARDA Fun, lively dance of the 16th and 17th centuries, at first quite fast, later performed at a more restrained pace, in a three-part size. Originally dicotyledonous, the galliarda then changed its meter and became a "pair" to pavana or passamezzo (performed after them). Galliarda was one of the favorite European dances of the 17th century, and it is often mentioned in Shakespeares works, usually under the name "cinque pace".
GALLOP FORWARD Lunge on the right /left / leg forward, the left leg/ right / is pulled up and moves forward with a slight jump. Step on ? tact. Size 2/4. Energetic character.
GALOPAD (gallop) ("riding at a gallop", "running at a gallop") the same as a gallop. The postmistress, the captain of the police department, the lady with the blue feather, the lady with the white feather, the Georgian prince Chipkaikilidzev, the official from St. Petersburg, the official from Moscow, the Frenchman Kuku, Perpukhovsky, Berebendovsky all rose and flew... (N. Gogol. Dead Souls); then followed French quadrilles, waltzes, and gallopades (Moskovskiye Vedomosti, 1846, No. 30).
GANGAR old Swedish and Norwegian slow dance. Music size 6/8.
GATVES DAY (Latvian. "alley") is a Latvian folk dance. Boys and girls form two parallel lines, each pair alternately passes between them, depicting a walk along the alley.
GAVOTTE Dance in a calm tempo and three-part size, taking (from the Provencal word gavoto – "resident of the Auvergne region"). Elegant and joyful French dance of the 16th and 18th centuries, performed at a moderate pace. Size 2/2 or 4/4, starts with a 2/4 or 2/8 bar. The gavotte consists of two parts of 8 bars each. It was originally part of Branle. In the 17th century it was a round dance, and in the 18th century it became a pair dance with different figures. The popularity of the gavotte was promoted by J. B. Lully. Gavotte is found in suites by Couperin, Pachelbel and especially J. S. Bach.
GAZAKHY azerbaijani folk male dance. Cheerful, temperamental character. Demonstration of dexterity and virtuosity. Gradual acceleration of the pace. Arranged in a single row, the performers perform the same dance moves.
GERMAN ONES allemande, almand, waltz, gopswalzer, grossfather, Deutsch, dreher, dreistheirer, lendler, lipsey, reigen, rucher, rüller springer, matchmaking, tiroljen, fakeltanz, hoftanz, huepfer, schwelmer, schleifer, sperl polka, steyrer, schuplatter
GET WILDLY TIRED Serbian folk dance, similar to chacak (see). This dance ended the evenings and balls.
GHANTA PATUA (ghanta patua) Indian folk dance. Performed on stilts.
GIG (giga, gigue) (compare English hig "light, mobile" or, perhaps, from the name of a stringed instrument) is an ancient dance, a type of gallop. Musical size 6/8. Was popular in the past in England, France, Italy. Sometimes it had a burlesque and indecent character.
GIGAKU ancient Japanese dance, masked dance drama.
GILAREA Hilaros is an ancient Greek ritual male dance in honor of the god Pan. The performers were dressed in long white tunics, with golden wreaths on their heads. Accompanied by a pipe.
GINGRA (from the name of the type of flute) see funeral dances.
GIORO GIORO Chadian holiday dance. All through the evening and part of the night, he could hear holiday songs, the beating of drums, the clanging of iron, sounds that were probably very pleasant to the ears of Africans. To the accompaniment of this music, endless dances were performed around the sacred hut. The Negroes yelled in unison, shouted, made convulsive gestures, made terrible grimaces. Correct. Five weeks in a hot air balloon).
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).
GLADE old Russian Cossack dance, later ballroom dance. Cheerful, perky character, dicotyledonous size. With dancing and jumping.
GLAUCASIA (from the Greek. glaux ("owl") is an ancient Greek pantomime dance depicting an owl.
GLISSADE parterre sliding jump without lifting off the floor with moving to the right to the left or forward to the back.
GO GO erotic dance with powerful pelvic thrusts performed by the dancer in imitation of the movements of a man during copulation.
GOJAM Ethiopian (Amara ethnic group) male martial dance, with sticks and daggers, accompanied by great expression, jumping and shouting. The pace is fast.
GOOD HUNTING EXPERIENCE Eskimo womens dance (in Anadyr). Cheerful, lively character, with singing, accompanied by a tambourine. Musical size 2/4, 4/4. Image of the joy of women who meet men returning from a successful hunt.
GOOSEBERRY PIE (from Belarusian. and Polish. kryzh "krest") Belarusian and Polish folk dance with a song. Dancing couples are arranged in a cross. Musical size 2/4, 4/4. The tempo gradually accelerates.
GORMOS (from the Greek. hormos ("chain, necklace, beads") is an ancient Greek dance. It was performed by naked men and women who circled in a ring, holding hands, depicting a necklace. One of the main dances of the Spartans, in which boys and girls, arranged alternately, holding hands, danced in a circle. According to the most ancient ideas, these round dances were established in imitation of the movement of the heavenly bodies. Singing in these dances was divided into stanzas and anti-stanzas. When they sang stanzas, they went from east to west (Posolon), and when they sang anti-stanzas, they took the opposite direction. Wed. space dances.
GOSECHI NO MAI japanese dance. Performed during temple festivals.
GOSETI (gozente) see dance of the five dancers.
GOZENTE see the dance of the five dancers.
GOZENTE DANCE see dance of the five dancers.
GRANADINA (from the name of the city of Granada) an ancient Spanish Andalusian dance, one of the prototypes of the fandango.
GRAND BATTEMENT throw the leg 90 degrees or higher forward, backward, or sideways.
GRAND JET jump from one foot to the other, moving forward, backward, or sideways. The legs open as much as possible and take the "splits" position in the air.
GRAND MARCH (ceremonial march, march parade) ritual solemn, strictly measured passage of soldiers to rhythmic music. It goes back to military dances.
GRAND PLIE full squat.
GRAOVSKO HORO Bulgarian folk dance of the Shop region, mixed. Boys and girls move first in a straight line, then in a circle. Everyone is holding on to the belts of those standing nearby. The pace is moderate.
GREEK DANCE Greek dance based on the myth of Theseus and Ariadne. Boys and girls dance separately, performing similar movements and poses, then join together and dance together. The first pair of dancers hold on to the ends of a ribbon or scarf, and the remaining pairs run under this ribbon or scarf, make a circle and return to their place.
GREEK LANGUAGES alyagrek, angrizmen, bath dances, wallachian dance, greek round dance, greek dance, ionic dance, candiot, romaika, sirtaki, sirtos
GREEK ROUND DANCE modern ballroom dance, quite smooth, melodic. It was popular in the 70s of the XX century Usually a large number of dancers participate; couples stand in a general circle, facing the center, move clockwise, then turn to each other and perform other movements.
GROSSFATHER (grossfatertants) (German: Gro?vater "grandfather", the name given to one of the initial words in the line of the song that accompanied this dance) is a German household and ballroom dance that spread in the XVIII century and in Russia. He had different performances (walking in a string of pairs, waltzing, jumping), had a comic character. Type of country dance. Samples in the works of R. Schumann "Butterflies", "Carnival", in the ballet of P. I. Tchaikovsky "The Nutcracker". Schultz danced, Ida Ivanovna danced, and Sofya Karlovna danced, although she refused, and finally did not even give up grosfather at all, and danced with her son-in-law to general applause (N. Leskov. Islanders); The French quadrille was barely in fashion; they danced more ecosaise, grosfather and paid attention to characteristic dances (D. Grigorovich, Literary Memoirs).
GROUND ground is an English dance that is close to sarabande, folia and chaconne.
GUAGUANCO Latin American dance, a type of rumba (see). It is performed by one pair of dancers and a chorus singer accompanied by percussion instruments. The dance has a slightly grotesque erotic coloring. It depicts the pursuit of a woman by a man, who evades and then rejects him, then makes a pelvic movement as a sign of acceptance.
GUAJIRA Guajira "peasant girl" is a Cuban Creole country dance song. Music size 3/4 or 6/8. It goes back to Spanish dances.
GUARACHO (guaracha) (from the name of the musical instrument guero) Latin American dance song (among the peoples of the Caribbean). Contains African-American and Spanish dance elements. Performed by a soloist and chorus with a guitar. The dancer can accompany himself on the guitar. Very fast, fun, and requires the mobility of performers. Music size 2/4, 3/8. Movement speeds up.
GUATEMALAN COMPANIES jaguar dance, tun
GUENYA (malaguenha) spanish dance. See malaguenha.
GUINEAN fishermens dance, folgar
GULL FLIGHT AGAINST THE WIND Eskimo dance of an imitative nature. The first part is slow, the second part increases in tempo and repeats the movements of the first part. Under the blows of a tambourine and shouts.
GULYAN Czech folk dance, paired mass. The movement of pairs in a circle. Among its elements are a synchronous step with a jump, holding the partners in a pair by the hands, separating the hands and rotating the members of the pair in different directions. The pace is average.
GUNDI (named after the stringed instrument) Central African song dance of the Bagirmi people. Performed for the purpose of glorifying a significant person, including in honor of the owner of the house. Female singer sings accompanied by playing men. During her singing, another woman (less often two) gets down on all fours and vigorously moves her shoulders and hips.
GUORUANG (guozhuang) Tibetan circular dance with singing. Men and women in two separate rotating circles sing, sway, and stamp their feet. The movements are agile and energetic. Men depict eagles with the movements of their wings. In another version of the dance, the dancers jump, wave their arms in front of them, step forward, then turn to the right or left. The pace accelerates, becoming fast by the end.
GUOTO the Congolese dance. Men and women are interspersed in a circle, numbering from five to forty people. Moving first to one side, then to the other, clapping your hands and other movements.
GUOXI (guoxie "rustic") tibetan dance. Dancers holding hands, singing, moving in a circle. The steps are measured and energetic, the rhythm is beaten off by the stamping of feet. Musical size 2/4, emphasis on the first measure. Expressing a sense of togetherness, joy and inspiration. On holidays, they dance all night.
GURAGE (by the name of a small ethnic group) Ethiopian dance. Stepping with their feet, crouching down, they beat their hands. They dance, standing in a circle, in which someone is soloing. The pace is very fast. To the accompaniment of only the drum.
GURAL (Polish. goral" mountain, highlander", from gora" mountain") dance of the Polish mountaineers of the Tatras region of Zakopane. Colorful, jaunty character, with high jumps, whistling, hitting the ground with a fist or a hand armed with an ice axe.
GURNA (lit. "root") Chadian dance. Performed with long sticks. Boys and girls (while in the camp) dance together, in pairs. There can be many pairs, they go one after the other in a circle of young men in one row, girls in another parallel. The dance lasts an hour. It is very exciting, and when the participants are excited, they solo in a circle. Accompanied by a drum.
GUSACHOK Russian round dance, common in the Smolensk region.
GUSSARDA Hungarian dance in the Hussar style. Compare the song and dance of the Hussars in I. Kalmans operetta "Princess of the Circus".
GUYANESE coromanti, kui kui
GYMNOPEDIA (Greek: gymnos "naked" and paidia "game") dance of naked youths (and men) at a Spartan festival. They imitated various military tricks and performed military techniques, competed in strength and dexterity, and sang songs at the same time. Also, this dance is understood as a kind of emmeleya.
GYPSY GIRL Russian folk dance with gypsy elements. One of the specific elements of shaking shoulders in women. And I would have woken up, unshaven, in the midst of you, goosebumps, oh, how un-famous, well, at least "Gypsy" dance (e. Yevtushenko. Joking).
GYPSY HUNGARIAN WOMAN Hungarian version with the addition of gypsy dance elements. Wed. hungarian. Noisily jumping from top to bottom Sounds scattered, Rang, entwined In a circular dance. It was like a whole camp here, With a squeal, a whistle, a shout, Coming in with rapture all In wild ecstasy. Sounds of whispers circling Voluptuous speech ... Naked Breasts, arms, shoulders tremble ... (A. Grigoriev. A Gypsy Hungarian woman).
GYPSY TANGO solo female dance with castanets. It was widespread in Andalusia until the mid-19th century. It belongs to the group of cante flamenco dances.
Georgian bagdaduri, davluri, zemkrelo, Kalta sarokao, kartuli, lekuri, mtiuluri, perhuli, khanjuluri, khorumi, tseruli
HABANERA Cuban dance (the name comes from the capital of Cuba, Havana) in bipartite size, similar in rhythm to the tango. The difference between habanera and tango is in tempo: habanera is twice as fast as tango. Habanera originated in Cuba thanks to the Spanish composer Sebastian Iradier, whose play El Arreglito, published in 1840 with the subtitle The Song of Havana (Chanson havanaise), is the first known example of habanera. This melody was used by Georges Bizet for the habanera in his opera Carmen. Another famous habanera of Iradiera is the Dove (La Paloma). Habaners were also written by I. Albenis, E. Chabrier and C. Debussy.
HACK 2 New Zealand womens dance with singing, graceful character. Performed with a linen ball. Wed. Sing.
HAFIZA Indian folk dance in Kashmir. Sparkle sparkle eyes alluring, Radiate radiate in a ruinous smile, Snake snake braids shiny, Flow flow in a captivating dance (M. Rusva. A dancer).
HAILEY Peruvian dance of ancient origin. He began to dance, the rhythm resembling the final part of the hail mary (H. M. Argedas. Deep Rivers); perhaps he wanted to challenge another dancer, because tiheras and hailies are competitive dances (ibid.).
HAKA 1 New Zealand male dance song with imitations of the sounds of nature. Hand movements, jumps are made; the dancers intimidating facial expressions are characteristic.
HAKA 3 New Zealand (Maori) dance, performed for the most part not with the feet, but with pantomimic (whole body) movements. Accompaniment: choral support and shouting.
HALAY Turkish and Azerbaijani folk round dance, accompanied by songs. Performed by a group of women. It is associated with agricultural rites. The dancers hold hands, forming a circle. The pace gradually speeds up. Cf. Turkish dance in M. Glinkas opera "Ruslan and Lyudmila".
HALEO (chufla) (Spanish: jaleo as a shout of approval; "noisy pleasure") is a Spanish folk gypsy dance, improvisational in nature, flexible and mobile, passionate. Jumping, swinging, etc. With the guitar playing and singing an old love song. A type of flamenco. The dancers clap their hands, shout "Ole!" I sing, I dance the haleo that they dance in Jerez... (f. Garcia Lorca. Mariana Pineda).
HALLING (from the names of the area of the Hallingdal Valley in southwestern Norway) is a Norwegian folk male dance. Men dance singly, competing in high jumps and other complex figures. Dancing requires a lot of strength and ingenuity. The musical size is 2/4, less often 6/8. The tempo is moderate, often accelerating towards the end. The rhythm is varied. Samples in the works of E. Grieg. Chu! to dance began to play… Hop hop! Dance off the halling famously! Fiddler Guthorm saws with might and main! And the hum is like a waterfall making noise!… Guy (to the musician, rushing past him in a pair with a girl). You strings that do not spare Nayarivay! Girl. To make the meadows ring! Girls (surrounding another guy dancing alone). Dashing jump! One of them. Here are the caviar springs! The boy (still dancing). You cant catch any walls or ceilings here; Scratch your feet to the sides and up! (G. Ibsen. Peer Gynt).
HANDY (gendi "stilts") Indian dance on stilts during the rainy season, including performed in water.
HARABE Jarabe (Spanish: jarabe "syrup") is a Mexican Creole dance that is a love pantomime; elegant and gallant. Major fret, three-length size. It goes back to Zapateado, the rhythm resembles a mazurka. Musical size 3/4. Sample in the American movie "Fun in Acapulco". At first, he is silent, and then offers: "Come on, nino, see her dancing harape (R. Valle Inclan. Summer Sonata).
HARANA Jarana is a fun folk dance in a number of Latin American countries, particularly Mexico, with an exciting rhythm. Snapping your fingers. Music size 3/4 and 6/8. Similar to the Spanish hota, it also has the characteristics of Seguidilla and Zapateado.
HASAPIKO (hasapico, presumably from Turkish. hasapis "butcher") Greek dance, as the basis of sirtaka.
HAUSA Sudanese dance, a type of uteiro (see).
HAWAIIAN see Polynesian
HEBREW LANGUAGES mayufes, sacred dance, dance of the seven veils
HELICHELONA a kind of outdoor game of ancient Greek girls with singing and dancing.
HERACLEA (Greek. heraclies is an ancient Greek sacred dance in honor of Heracles.
HERMESIAS ancient Greek sacred dance in honor of Hermes (Mercury).
HESI Indian ritual dance of the Miwok people (in the western United States). It was performed annually and was accompanied by initiations of boys.
HEY (English: hay or hey) is an old English dance. The dancers move in a sinuous, serpentine line, giving each other a right or left hand; otherwise, the dance is similar to a reel. The characters in Shakespeares The Vain Efforts of Love dance the hay...and in Twelfth Night they dance the galliard and the sliding chimes. Pasyutinskaya, The Magic World of Dance); Ill drink to the merry girls, Even if theyre strict. So that we can move from our singing songs To fervent dances (J. Lili. Song of the servants).
HIBAO old Spanish pair ballroom dance (XVI century and earlier). "You cant find a better Hibao ""What kind of dance is this? ""Ballroom for a dance party..." (Lope de Vega. Dance teacher); Hibao with her you will learn At the cost of your head (ibid.).
HIGH RELEASE high extension, a movement consisting of lifting the chest with a slight bend back.
HIGH-LEGGED MARCH March with a high rise of the knee, the toe is pulled down, the body is straight. The character is clear, energetic. Step on ? tact.
HINGE the position of the dancer in which the torso is straight, without bends, tilted back to the maximum distance, knees bent, feet on half-fingers,
HIP LIFT hip lift up.
HIPPOGYNES (from the Greek. hippos "horse" and gyn? "woman") is an ancient Greek dance of women on horseback. According to legend, it was created by the Amazons. It is performed at the full moon on the days of the Elotic holidays in honor of Artemis. Now the hippogynes has disappeared, only occasionally professional acrobats on horseback perform in Attica or Sparta at the special invitation of rich festival organizers (I. Efremov. Thais of Athens).
HKADARDAI MAKYAM see Lezginka, Kadardai makyam.
HOFTANTZ Old German dance (XVI century).
HOLAN OKOT ancient Mexican warrior dance. Ritual nature, lasted all day.
HOOCHIE KUCHI (hootchy kootchy) obscene erotic dance, a type of belly dance.
HOPAK Fast Ukrainian dance in dicot size. A vivid example is Hopak in M. P. Mussorgskys opera Sorochinskaya Yarmarka.
HOPPEL POPPEL is a modern ballroom dance that was in fashion in the 70s-80s of the XX century. The pace is slow.
HOPSWALZER (German: "waltz with jumps") German dance, the same as Rutscher (see).
HORA 1 (horo) (from the Greek choros "round dance") is a Bulgarian folk mass round dance. Executed by any number of participants. It can be male, female, or mixed. Moves in circles, lines, zigzags, forward and backward movements, from side to side are typical. Performers hold their hands down or otherwise. The tempo is slow and fast, and the musical size is varied. Everyone jumped up, knocking over several chairs... and a discordant dance began around the long table. Dust rose from the floor, window panes rang, soot fell from the chimneys... Captain Negro, forgetting his position, tried his best, but he had not danced such a horo for a long time and now he could not learn the necessary steps ... (E. Stanev. Wine); Raika grew up in my grandfathers house like a flower in the garden. And now she is already a bride... he lived to see the day when his granddaughter went to Horo (T. Vlaikov. Granddaughter of grandfather Slavcho); She was beautiful, but not beautiful enough to dance horo next to her. She was very tall, and she avoided dancing even at weddings (G. Stoev. The price of gold); He ate and drank at the same table with the peasants, clapped them on the shoulders in a friendly way, danced horo (S. Kh. Karaslavov. Rising from the ashes); The round dance among the Bulgarians is not only a dance, it is a ritual in which the relationships of... groups of the rural community were expressed in a peculiar way. Men and women, boys and girls, newlyweds received a certain place in the round dance chain in accordance with their position in society, their relationships. Leading a round dance was considered a high honor... (Calendar customs and rituals in foreign European countries).
HORA 2 ancient Romanian and Moldavian round dance. The pace varies: in some cases it is slow, in others it is relatively fast. It can be smooth or temperamental in nature. Musical size 3/4 or 3/8.There are many variations. Sample in T. Rogalskis "Three Romanian Symphony Dances". One day he meets a healthy peasant girl who dances hora and batuta, bryla and kindia so that the earth trembles (I. L. Caragiale. Christmas Chronicle).
HORAN (horon) (Turkish. horon) circular songs dances of the Crimean Tatars; Turkish dance of cult pagan origin. Performed by a chain of men or women forming a line or semicircle. Rapid shaking of the shoulders and trembling of the whole body, unexpected squats.
HORNPIPE English and Scottish dance, known throughout the 16th and 19th centuries. and took its name from the ancient wind instrument that accompanied this dance. The hornpipe was played in sizes 3/2 or 4/4 and had a characteristic dotted rhythm. Since the dance did not require much space, it was popular with sailors who danced with their arms folded and legs moving quickly, with the hull straight. Examples of hornpipe music that seemed" strange " to 18th-century authors can be found in the works of H. Purcell and G. F. Handel. The earliest extant example is the Hornpipe for Virginal, composed by Hugh Aston (d. c. 1525).
HORUMI (cargo. "round dance") ancient Georgian folk round dance war dance. The tempo is moderate, with a complex metrorhythm. Dancers line up in a circle or in a line, imitate the preparation for a fight, a fight, and at the end they depict the triumph of the winners. It can also depict hunting, preparing for a feast, etc. Samples in the works of A. Balanchivadze.
HOTA Jota is an old Spanish pair dance (from the 17th century), fast, energetic and agile, with jumping steps. Music size 3/8. Performed by dancers with castanets, to the music of strings and percussion instruments. The dance is reflected in M. Glinkas play "Aragon Hota". Samples of Lauras song "Grenada Dressed in Fog" in A. Dargomyzhskys opera "The Stone Guest" ; in the Argentine films "Age of Love" and "Bridegroom for Laura". So much dancing! To their number, you still need to add hotu ... he will set the legs to work (Lope de Vega. Dance teacher); You and I will dance hotu; Let the castanets knock: All night until dawn we will dance with you, my friend! (Spanish song).
HOTTENTOTADE (from the name of the South African ethnic group) dances with Hottentot songs, characterized by rude, inelegant body movements; in a figurative sense, an ugly dance performed.
HUA Wu Chinese classical dance, complicated by elements of symbolism. The song is a soft chant, the dance is a smooth flight, silk strings and bamboo pipes ... The whole day the sovereign stared at her, he couldnt get enough of her ... (Bo Ju yi) Eternal sorrow).
HUAYNITOS (Spanish: huaynitos) Bolivian dance. Couples do small jumps and choreographed stunts.
HUEPFER german dance. Same as rutscher. Type of gallop.
HULA (hula) an ancient Hawaiian dance of a sacred, ceremonial nature, now modified. Step with undulating, voluptuous movement of the hips back and forth; the dancer (there may be several of them) wriggles her whole body. With a drum accompaniment. It is widespread among many peoples of Polynesia. Wed. ole ole.
HUNGARIAN LANGUAGES verbunkosh, gussarda, kopogosh, lashan, legenesh dance, martogatosh, bottle dance, candle dance, stomp, chardash, chardengele
HUNGARIAN WALTZ waltz of Hungarian origin. They dance in the style of shotish or Rhinelander.
HUNGARIAN WOMAN (word of Polish origin) folk and ballroom fast dance of the late 19th century, a variant of Krakowiak, which is based on the movements and melody characteristic of Hungarian folk dances; goes back to Czardas. This is you, a dashing spree, You merge evil sadness With the voluptuousness of a bayadere You, the Hungarian motif! The fifths rattle sharply, Sounds fall like pellets... The sounds whine and squeal, Like moans of agony (A. Grigoriev. Gypsy Hungarian); " What do you want? Isai Savvich asked... waltz, polka, polka mazurka?.. ""Waltz, waltz!" shouted Vera from her seat... " No, polka!.. Waltz!.. Hungarian!.. " demanded others (A. Kuprin. Pit); There they laid the floor out of planks under the pines, Danced a Hungarian girl, and twirled a hand. Kissed, swore and friends were jealous, Hurdy-gurdy, hurdy-gurdy, melancholy and melancholy !( S. Gorodetsky. Hurdy-gurdy).
HUNTING DANCE dance of the Katu people (in Vietnam).
HUSTLE modern youth pair dance, which has incorporated the features of many other dances (rock and roll, boogie woogie, samba, etc.). Improvisational nature.
HWANG CHAN DANCE korean folk martial sword dance. The heros exploits are depicted.
HYM SOAP tank-like game of Tajik girls. They compete in the longitude of throwing their shoulders up and in the springy movements of their feet, saying "khym myl" to the rhythm of their movements.
HYPOCRITICAL MUSIC the ancient Greeks had music accompanied by dancing and facial expressions.
HYPORCHEMA (hyporchem, hyporchema) (from the Greek. hypo "under" and orchma "dance") ancient Greek choral songs with dances and pantomimes dedicated to Apollo, dances of a lyrical nature with noble, graceful movements.
Hondo (Spanish: hondo, jondo "deep") is a style of Spanish Andalusian music and dance. And she put her hand on her hip, And her heel clattered on the catwalk, Colorful ribbons flowed like a river to her white stockings ... But, in the midst of the dance of magic and inspiration, She tore the invisible threads Between the sparse crowd and herself With her high-raised hand, So That only a Spaniard in love Or a poet who had seen God Could understand the dance unknown to the north, the Cry of Handa (A. Block. Spanish woman).
ICELE Moldovan folk dance. It is based on an imitation of the work, movement of a weaving shuttle. Couples stand facing each other, forming two rows, changing places during the dance.
IFIMB ancient Greek dance in honor of Bacchus. Wed. bacchanalia, tiaz.
IGDIBM igdis is an ancient Greek dance in which dancers indecently move their hips, a type of comic dance. The two women walked in a line, lifting their knees high and holding each others loose hair. The pace quickened to a run. When they separated, they spun like a top in strobilos, froze, then, twisting in the wild dance of the Trojan goddess of igdibma, they raced, their hips turned furiously, and then they raced again, throwing their heads back and stretching out their arms (I. Efremov. Thais of Athens).
IMUNAN (imunan) filipino dance. It depicts a beautiful woman going out for a walk with her fans.
IN ADDITION TO MENS DANCING there are also mixed competitions (among Galicians), among which the muñeira is especially popular: men invite women, couples dance, then form a round dance (Peoples of the world).
INDIAN ONES bargit, bhakkar, bhangra, bharat Natya, bhut, vrita (brita), gendi, ghanta patua, dandiya ras, jatra, jumar, kavadi, kathak, kathakali, lila, manipuri, nandvinze, natya, nritta, nritya, odissi, sun dance, rasa, rasa lila, sangeet, tamasha, tandava, devadasis dance, hafiza, chakri, yakshagana
INDONESIAN ONES ambon Quadrille, baris, barong, Bedaya, Betawi, wayang, wayang wong, wayang orang, wayang Topeng, Jawk, joged, doger, Kabasaran, Kebiyar, Legong, Menari, Nadutta, Penchak, Sanghyang Dadari, Serimpi, umbrella dance, candle and saucer dance, bell dance, tendak, topeng, chalonarang
INGLIZKA Estonian dance, paired mass, similar to a quadrille and polka. Music size 2/4.
IONIC DANCE greek wedding dance. At the head of the procession are the newlyweds, followed by their relatives and friends. Then everyone stops and forms a circle, and the newlyweds dance in the middle of it.
IONIK (Ionian dance) (from the name of the area) is an ancient Greek sacred dance. The inhabitants of Sicily danced it during the holidays in honor of Artemis (Diana). Slow moving, feminine, voluptuous dance, with small hand movements. We danced at aristocratic dinners. It also existed in the form of solemn processions with round dances in squares for young men and women separately.
IRA bashkir folk (also ballroom) pair dance. Musical size 2/4, tempo moderately fast. Quick movements of couples in a circle, the click of heels.
IRANIAN COMPANIES maulidi, moj pa
ISLAMEY (Islamic) Kabardian and Adyghe folk dance. Synonym of Kabardinka. Sample play of the same name by M. Balakirev.
ITALIAN ONES anello, ballata, balletto, bassa, bergamasca, berlingozza, vilanella, villota, volta, duro duro, calata, carole, couranta, lazzi, lombarda, may dance, monimasca, moresca, sheep, olivete, padoana, pasamezzo, piva, romanesca, saltarella, seccarara, siciliana, tarantella, tedesca, cod, trezza, forlana, chaconne, sciarentana, estrambota
ITIK ITIK ("duck") is a Filipino dance that imitates the duck step; dances with a fan among the peoples of the Philippines. Short, frequent steps, imitation of water splashes.
Ingush parnaya lezginka
JACK KNIFE the position of the body in which the torso is bent forward, the back is straight, the support is on the hands, the knees are extended, the legs are in a second parallel position, the heels do not leave the floor.
JAMAICAN mento
JANGI (Azerbaijani. "battle") is an Azerbaijani martial male dance. Fast movements. Simulated combat. Performed by soldiers or young men during a wrestling match.
JAPANESE azuma asobi, bon odori, bugaku, gagaku, gigaku, gosechi, gosechi no mai, dengaku, kagura, korean lion, kusemai, makagura, no, noo, nembutsu odori, okina, fan dance, dance of five dancers, sambaso, sarugaku, Sarugaku no noo, satokagura, taasobi, Takekurabe, tinkobue, furyu, furyu odori, ceremonial dance, shishi odori, enne no mai, japanese quadrille
JAPANESE QUADRILLE japanese female aristocratic dance. All dancing women sway their upper torso, stretch their arms to the right and left, turn their heads, but do not move.
JATRA indian traditional dance, a dance performance. Once again, the brass of the orchestra drowned out other sounds, and several Indian dancers burst out of the wings. Their dance seemed endless to the boys, and their flexible arms resembled wriggling snakes (A. Maltz. The circus has arrived).
JAUK Indonesian dance (on the island of Bali), expressively fast character. Choreographic image of an evil spirit.
JAVA (THE NAME IS RELATED TO ABOUT. JAVA) modern ballroom dance of French origin, three-length, jumpy, fast. Shoulder movements as a characteristic element; waltz step, waltz run, glide. It was popular at the beginning of the XX century.
JAZZ HAND the position of the hand where the fingers are tense and spread apart.
JELLY ROLL pelvis movement, consisting of a small muscle contraction with a simultaneous small turn of the pelvis to the right to the left (synonym for pelvis shake.)
JERK POSITION a hand position in which the elbows are bent and slightly pulled back, behind the chest, with the forearms parallel to the floor.
JEYRANS (jeyrani) (after the name of the animal jeyran, a type of antelope) is an Azerbaijani and Armenian folk dance. The dancing girls soft tread, elastic steps, and hand movements depict a timid antelope, its light jumps and running, and its graceful movements.
JITTERBUG (Lindy). American dance, which appeared between 1935 and 1940 and consisted of bouncing, bouncing and vibrating-in the form of pure improvisation to swing music, especially boogie woogie. The usual rhythmic pattern consists of solid eighths or interspersed dotted eighths and sixteenths. The development of jitterbug was lindy hop, where dancers count by six with a four-digit music size. A typical feature of this dance is the rotation of the partner around the axis, when the partner holds his hand behind her back. Rhythm-emphatically syncopated with accents on the second and fourth lobes.
JIVE (English jive, a word of obscure origin; it is assumed that it may be from Negro slang with the original meaning of "trick, deception") a dance of Negro or Native American origin. It was fashionable in the 50 60s of the XX century Associated with rock and roll and boogie woogie, be bop. The pace is fast and energetic. The rhythm is syncopated. Chasse steps left and right, step back, step forward; all steps from the toe.
JOC (jock) (rum. mold. "dance") is a Moldovan mass folk dance. The movements are dynamic. Musical size 2/4, 6/8, 3/8. Varieties of joc betrinesk (dance of old men), joc tseglume (comic) , etc. He also happened to play the Moldavian jock and the Italian tarantella, and waltzes to German sailors. Kuprin. Gambrinus).
JOCK see joc.
JOCKEY DEDOY Romanian pair mass dance. Wed. jock and dedoy.
JOGGED Indonesian dance, a variant of legong (see), which a dancer performs with partners.
JOKSU POLKA (from joks "running") is a modern ballroom dance based on elements of Estonian folk dances. Musical size 4/4. Strict measured rhythm. At first, the dancers stand in pairs, the girl on the right of the young man; he holds her by the waist with his right hand, and she puts her left hand on his shoulder. Running with a jump and bending the body forward; turning to face each other, both his hands on her waist, both her hands on his shoulders, moving in a turn with a jump; spinning a girl under the raised hand of a young man and other figures.
JONGO (portug. jongo or jan go, xongo) is a Brazilian ritual Negro dance in honor of the jungle god Shango. Another name is bendenge, as well as tambu. The dance is temperamental, accompanied by percussion instruments, especially various drums.
JORY pakistani song and dance style.
JULIA (Spanish: huella "footprint, step") Latin American Creole dance. Samakueka dance lessons.
JUMAR Indian folk dance in Rajasthan, performed by women. Pirouettes and fluttering skirts are typical. Pakistani song and dance form.
JUMP jump on two legs.
JUMP WALTZ waltz of the early 19th century, performed in a fouette to a cheerful tune. Music size 2/4.
JUNGLE (English "jungle") modern ballroom dance. It originates from rap and rave (see).
JURKAN SALMAI (Kirghiz. "put down the blanket") kyrgyz dance game. On opposite sides of the spread blanket are a young man and a girl, who must, without touching the blanket, reach out to each other and kiss.
KA MAOTO a South African Soto dance combined with singing. Labor processes are depicted.
KABASARAN (kabasaran "greatness") is an Indonesian war dance. Men in feathered hats are dancing.
KACHIMBO (cachimbo) a Chilean pair dance. Graceful movements with handkerchiefs. It looks like kueka.
KACHUA (kashua) folk dance of the Indians of South America (in Peru and Bolivia), with singing. Fun character, love content; dancing at night. From the round dance of the couple, boys and girls come out and dance in the center. See the dance song "Narangitay" in the Argentine movie "There in the North" performed by Lolita Torres. Cf. kashua. Then the reed flute moaned, the drums began to hum, and the cheerful melody of kashua (S. Alegria) burst into the hut like a whirlwind. The Golden Snake).
KADARDAI MAKYAM ("jumping dance") Lezgian folk very fast dance (Lezginka). Cf. Khkadardai makyam.
KAFA ancient Kabardian folk dance. Performed in several pairs. It is also known among other Caucasian peoples.
KAFR AL ARAB egyptian dance songs with claps.
KAGURA (Japanese. "the joy of the gods") Japanese ritual songs and dances (sacred dance pantomime) in honor of Shinto gods. They were performed during worship on specially arranged platforms in a Shinto temple. See and compare bugaku. Wed. satokagura.
KALABIS kalabis is an ancient Greek Spartan sacred dance performed in honor of Artemis.
KALATA italian dance with a very fast tempo; slow Italian dance of the XV-XVI centuries.Meanwhile, the guests were sitting in the shade under a carob tree, waiting for a treat, playing tambourines and bagpipes, and dancing with the farmwomen. She was flushed and amused, and her black eyes sparkled like stars; she laughed so hard that her white teeth were visible, and the gold jewelry on her jingled and hit her on the cheeks and on the chest ... (J. Verga. Ieli shepherd).
KALATISKOS (kalatiskos) an ancient Greek dance used to represent a tragedy. View of Emmelia. A procession of people carries baskets in their hands, matching their pace to the rhythm.
KALATONG (kalatong, the name of the musical instrument described below) is a Filipino dance. A meter-long bamboo device is suspended from the neck or waist of the dancer, which beats a fast rhythm. It brings happiness and drives away evil spirits.
KALTA SAROKAO (cargo. "womens round dance") is an ancient Georgian round dance for women. See perhuli.
KALUSHAR romanian virtuoso dance games. See calusharii dances.
KALUSHARII DANCES ancient Romanian ritual male dance. Men (kalusharii), dressed in womens dress with wreaths of plants on their heads and their faces covered with a white kerchief (so that they would not be recognized), in Rusal days went around the area from village to village and cured the sick with dances and virtuoso jumps. The patients were laid out on a carpet laid on the ground, and the calushari danced around them, jumping over the patient from head to foot. Some researchers attribute this dance to the ritual dances of the ancient Roman Saliyas (see Saliy dance).
KAMARINSKAYA STREET (Kamarinsky) Russian folk dance is a song of a fervent nature, performed at a fairly fast pace. Sample in the work of M. I. Glinka "Variations on two Russian folk themes"....On the guitar of "Kamarinsky" with Italian variations played (I. Turgenev. The dog); the aunt lifted up her fox face and howled happily. "You, Auntie, sit down," the landlord said to her, "and my uncle and I will dance Kamarinsky" (A. Chekhov. Kashtanka);…Tolpygin played the piano seguidilla from "Carmen", and Vanka Vstanka danced to it kamarinsky muzhik (A. Kuprin. Pit).
KAMAZHAY Kazakh folk female dance. Smooth movements of the arms, body, and head. Musical size 2/4. The tempo is moderate. A performer in a festive outfit, with jewelry in braids and on her hands.
KAMLANIE shamans ritual dance (in Yakutia). In the old days, according to stories, shamans made a special prayer to the spirit of the earth to send down "jalyn" (the power of sexual attraction)on women... when traveling to the spirit of mother earth, the shaman had dancers three times nine girls and the same number of young guys. These maidens and youths, holding birch poles in their hands, danced together with the shaman. The shaman wore his own cloak and had a tambourine. By kamlani (dancing), the shaman would come to the spirit of mother earth and beg her to grant "jalyn"… The shaman repeated this taking of "jalyn" three times… According to the stories, (heated) women rushed at the shaman, even completely naked, without any clothes (G. Ksenofontov. Legends and stories about shamans).
KANDYAN DANCES dance forms and genres in Sri Lanka. They are related to the Bharat natyam dance style (see). Performed by barefoot men. The dances depict various scenes of the palaces life, comic incidents, and imitate the movements of animals and birds.
KANTE Cante "song" is the main style of Spanish Andalusian music and dance.
KANTE HONDO Cante jondo is a style of song and dance that is close to cante flamenco and is part of it. In the garden night, whitewashed with chalk, six gypsy girls in white dance. In the night of the garden… Rosebuds and poppies in their wreaths of dyed paper Garcia Lorca. The poem of cante hondo. Dance).
KAPIT TENGONG (kapit tengong) filipino dance. Dance with a ribbon attached to a stick, manipulating them, depicting the movement of waves, birds, snakes.
KARACHAY REGIONS sandyrak, youth theater, uj
KARAKOD (korogod) Belarusian and generally East Slavic round dance, round dance. Goy you, Rus, my native, Huts in the robes of the image… Theres no end in sight Just blue sucking my eyes… Smells of apple and honey In the churches of your meek Savior. And hums for korogodom On the meadows of a merry dance (p. Yesenin).
KARAKOLES (Spanish: caracoles "snails") Spanish folk dance. The dancer performed vito, ole, caracoles and the temperamental zapateo (Pio Baroja. Evenings in Buen Retiro).
KARELIAN piirileikki
KARICHKI Slovak folk dance of a round dance character. The circle of dancers is then separated, then re-formed. The dance is usually accompanied by singing. A characteristic element is the undulating swaying of skirts. The pace is average. Movement of dancers holding hands, in a straight line, in a snake, in a circle. Moving forward, they hold their hands behind one another (i.e., the arms are crossed and are at waist level), only from time to time separating them.
KARINOS Filipino dance in which a man and a woman flirt, express tender feelings to each other, as if playing hide-and-seek.
KARITII Ancient Greek sacred dance pantomime, representing the graces during the charisia celebrations in honor of the graces. Cf. dance of the graces in the ballet by Jacopo Peri "Velha Graces". Cretans under the hymn, around the altar lights Soared, whirling, delicate legs slender, On a soft meadow Flower field trampled (Sappho); cf. But have You ever been on high Olympus with the gods? Did You embrace with Your mortal eye the joy of their feasts? Did Harit see before them how, to the sound of pleasant lyres, they Dance to delight the world above; How with a long, low tone they float Importantly with peahens; How with a merry, rapid ringing of Doves they beat the air; How around them they calmly and Majestically sweep their gaze; How their movements are harmonious to the Eye, they speak to the heart? (G. Derzhavin. Charites).
KAROL (carola) (Fr. carol, possibly from Lat. chorus "dance in a circle") old medieval round dance with singing (in France and Italy). Smooth rhythm with speed. The dancers held hands. It was performed on holidays.
KARTULI (cargo. Georgian folk love dance. Another name for lekuri. Music size 6/8, 3/8. Cheerful and lively character; similar to Lezginka. In the dance, boys and girls do not touch, the body does not relax. Smooth movements without jumping. In one of the episodes of the dance, a young man dances around a girl standing in place, in another, one girl dances. Tarnished product times… I see a moon-shaped vase: khevsurka dances with a tambourine, she rejoices… I have never met such a cheerful one before. I ask: wrap up this story, tie it up, With my day somehow fade, the virgin dances and the breasts of the pockmarked quail fly from the rye ... The last day of September. The light is tired and dusty, oblique. And he wont remember today, and no one will say "happy birthday". Only the virgin will console my heart with naive beauty and dance something good (Jansug Charkviani. The Khevsurian Maiden).
KARUYO an ancient Peruvian collective circular dance.
KARYOTIS (Greek: karyatis) an ancient Greek dance in honor of Artemis (Diana). On the feast of Diana (kari, karyatis), young girls gathered at the time of maturation of the nut and danced dances invented by Castor and Pollux. Round dance and procession to the singing of hymns. According to another source, this dance was danced together by naked boys and girls. Completely naked girls and boys danced karyotis, a very proud and majestic dance, or "lamproteru" dance of purity and youth (I. Yefremov. Thais of Athens).
KASHUA collective circular dance in ancient Peru. It was accompanied by singing and playing a musical instrument. See and cf. winew, karuyo.
KATERETE Brazilian collective dance, performed by two opposing rows of dancers, with singing, accompanied by one or two viols. Women and men touch each other with their navels.
KATHAK (kathak, from katha "story, story" in connection with the fact that this dance priest Brahmin choreographed the history of the faith) classical style of Indian dance (Northern India) to the accompaniment of pakkhavaja. Very rhythmic dance. Soft hand movements, fast rhythmic foot movements, frequent rapid turns. The dancer beats out complex rhythms with his feet, stomping behind the accompanying drum.
KATHAKALI (kathakali "story performance") classical Indian dance of the XVI-XVII centuries. It is performed by men in colorful outfits to the accompaniment of a cylindrical drum chenda. Energy and belligerence are demonstrated. It is a choreographic performance based on the poem "Ramayana". It depicts the victory of truth over falsehood.
KATSUDORATAN (katsudoratan) Filipino dance of court ladies in the style of majestic gait, in bright clothes and with waving shawls as preparation for an important event.
KAVADI kavadi is an Indian folk dance with a wooden pole to which two pots are tied. The performer, while dancing, keeps this pole balanced on his shoulder.
KAZACHOK Russian and Ukrainian (Kuban and Terek) folk dance, fun and lively. Music size 2/4. An improvisational dance. The pace is moderate at first, then accelerates. A young man dancing with a girl repeats her movements. Sample "Little Russian Cossack" by A. Dargomyzhsky; dance of the Cossacks in P. Tchaikovskys opera "Cherevichki". The Kuban Cossack danced to the glory of the Cossack (N. Gogol, Terrible Revenge); If you will allow me, I will dance the Cossack at your wedding in the best possible way (p. Sergeyev Tsensky, Sevastopol strada);…The whole Petelin shop was danced by a Cossack girl (A. Bestuzhev Marlinsky. Test).
KAZAKH LANGUAGES жастар бий, камажай
KAZYNKA regional name of the dance kazachok. Kazynka kazachok, Cossack cute little friend (song).
KEBIYAR indonesian dance. Performed by dancers in a sitting position. It comes from ritual gestures.
KECHAK (kechak, kecak) Indonesian mass male classical dance, expressive and impetuous. Based on the ancient Indian epic "Ramayana". Many dancers in loincloths participate. Accompanied by a monotonously singing chorus of men.
KEKUOK cake walk is a folk pair dance of North American Negroes in the XIX century, later a ballroom dance. The name comes from the pose of dancers, as if offering a dish with a pie and goes back to the custom of awarding the best performers with a pie. Musical size 2/4. Tempo of a fast march with sharp syncopations. High leg swings, quick steps, jumps and turns. Wed. cancan. Samples in operettas by J. Offenbach, "Puppet Cake" by K. Debussy. For a moment the keck Walk motif became fashionable, and even a wandering merchant, still wearing his coonskin coat, high galoshes, and fox hat, danced it one day between the barrels. However, this Negro dance was soon forgotten (A. Kuprin. Gambrinus).
KELUSH Quelusul is an ancient Romanian folk dance in the provinces of Oltenia and Muntenia, fast and technically complex, performed mainly by men. See and compare dances of the Kalusharii.
KEN KEN (from the name of the musical instrument) an ancient Peruvian dance. They often dance in animal skins.
KERMOPHOROS (kermophoros) an ancient Greek martial dance with frenzies of rage. The name of the dance is given by the vase carried by the dancers.
KETTEN DANCE (German: "chain dance") is a comic ballroom dance in Europe in the 18th century. In Russia, it was performed as games at the assemblies of Peter the Great. After the ceremonial dances, game dances, comic dances, fast and fun began, for example, ekosez, ketten dance (In. Pasyutinskaya street. The magic world of dance).
KHALI Hully gully is an American group ballroom dance. Musical size 4/4. The dancers are arranged in a single line, a short movement to the right, then to the left, jumps and other figures. Snapping your fingers to the beat of your steps.
KHANJULURI ("a dance with daggers", from gruz. khandzhal ("dagger") is a Georgian male dance with daggers, similar to mtiuluri. The dancer plunges the daggers into the ground not far from each other and makes quick sliding movements with his feet between them. Moments of struggle with daggers are depicted.
KHANUM Lezgian slow smooth dance.
KHODZONY (hodzony) (Polish. chodzony "walking, processions") old Polish folk peasant dance, later secular dance. Three-dimensional size, with a sliding step and a restrained manner of execution. In the old days, it was danced with lighted candles in their hands and with other objects. The polonaise comes from the hojona dance.
KHON court dance drama of a secular nature in Thailand. Performed by men and partly by women (based on the Indian epic "Ramayana"). Has an energetic and courageous character.
KHOROPO venezuelan rural dance. Performed during a home celebration, etc.; Colombian dances with singing. This genre belongs to the Creole music and dance culture.
KHOROS Ancient Greek round dance with singing. Young men here and blooming maidens, desired by many, Dance, in a circular chorus kindly intertwining their hands... They dance and with their skillful feet they will spin…Then they will develop and dance in rows, one after the other. A group of villagers surround the captivating choir and heartily admire It; two of their heads in the circle, Singing in harmony, turn wonderfully in the middle (Homer. Iliad); But all I love most is to be crowned With a Light string of Snow-white hyacinths And, frolicking, to interfere in the dances of Young virgins... In the dance of blooming maidens I dance to the voice of the lyre And carry quietly the burden of a sweet and peaceful Life (Anacreon. To yourself).
KICK throw the leg forward or sideways by 45° or 90° via the develope pull-out,
KICKING OUT Perform a jump from one leg to the other in turn. The leg is brought forward by / 45 degrees/, the knees are straight, the sock is extremely stretched, performed at a fast pace for each ? tact.
KIIZ (Kirghiz. "koshma") is a Kyrgyz dance that depicts how a koshma is made. Dancing girls convey in pantomime all the phases of this process.
KINDIA romanian and Moldovan folk dance. One day he meets a healthy peasant girl Nyaksha, dancing ... kindia so that the earth trembles (I. Karajale. Christmas Chronicle).
KIRONOMIYA ancient Greek solo war dance. The armed warrior danced the chaos of battle and desperate resistance to the enemy.
KLACKETS a type of dance where the dancer has metal strips on the soles, with which the rhythm is beaten.
KLAG Chadian dance (Bagermi people). They dance at night in a state of intoxication. Women in loincloths and head bandages; men in shorts. Men and women form two rows of 10-15 people each. The women in their row clap their hands. Then one of them is called. While dancing, she makes vigorous movements with her hands and other body parts. Then she calls a man and they dance together. The next pair works similarly, and so on. Each couple dances for 3 to 5 minutes. The audience stands around and applauds. If the klag is performed at a funeral, it is danced for three consecutive days without a break.
KLAKA Romanian folk custom based on dance help with dances in harvesting. Klaka leaders, boys and musicians walked around the village, stopping at those houses where there were adult girls. The guys danced to the music, and the managers invited the owners and their daughters to work. All those who came were divided into sections and began to harvest. Throughout the day, musicians and dancers toured the sites and entertained the workers.
KNOSII ancient Greek sacred dance. Young people of both sexes form choirs with their hands intertwined and sing a hymn in memory of Theseus victory over the Minotaur, who freed his victims. In the dance, there is a "round dance driver" walking at the head of the round dance, he plays the lyre… Two girls held the ends of a ribbon that matched the entire row of dancers that represented those being led by Theseus. The movements of this dance were similar to the flight of cranes, so it was also called "crane" (N. Vashkevich. History of choreography).
KOASA ("agricultural spit") Moldovan folk mass dance. Choreographic image of mowers work.
KOLATTAM Indian song and dance form in Kerala. It is performed using danda or kolu (musical instruments in the form of sticks with bells); in accordance with their rhythm, performers perform complex dance patterns. All night long Mongola was cooking poison... in the deep silence of the night... the sound of pestle hitting mortar could be heard. Sometimes this monotonous sound alternated with another: Mongola in ecstasy whirled in the dance, beating time with her palms, faster and faster (p. Tagore. Bibhi Beach).
KOLO ("ring, wheel") mass round dance among Serbs and other peoples. Participants are closed in a ring and dance to the accompaniment of folk instruments. The pace is fast or slow. And then she told her mother and Ganush what games she played, sang songs... and, taking Ganush by the hand, taught him to dance the folk kolo (B. Nemtsova. Mountain village).
KOLOMAIKA Czech folk dance, paired or massed in pairs. The pace is average. A couple of dancers, standing facing each other, hold their right hands, left hands on their waists. The dance is characterized by synchronous forward bends and backward deviations of the partners of each pair, with a parallel deviation of the bodies of the young man and girl in one direction, then in the other. In this case, there is a slight rise of one leg, thrown forward or pulled back, as well as jumps, rotations, pritopes. All pairs move in a circle.
KOLOMYIKA (from the name of the city of Kolomyia) West Ukrainian folk mass dance. Musical size 2/4. The tempo is lively. Accompanied by a comic song. The dancers form a circle, holding hands, alternately men and women. Rapid movement in a circle. Whirling couples holding outstretched hands. A series of stomping moves with both feet alternately in place or moving forward. A series of heel-to-heel bumps. At the end, the participants dance in a circle again.
KOMETIKE (Greek. "hair dance") is an ancient Greek dance. The Lacedaemonians unbound hair flowed gold down her back, curling in voluminous coils below her knees… She danced the "Hair Dance" to the "Comet" to the accompaniment of her own singing, rising high on the tips of her fingers, and reminded me of the magnificent statues of Callimachus of Spartan dancers, wavering like flames, and it seems that they are about to fly up in an ecstatic rush (I. Efremov. Thais of Athens).
KOMOS ancient Greek pleasure dance. Walking with bent knees, jumping over your head, walking on your hands, etc.
KONISALOS (Greek. konisalos ("rising dust") is an ancient Greek erotic dance in which the legs are raised beyond measure; also a comic dance with rough pantomime.
KOPOGOSH hungarian dance. See Hungarian dances in F.s operetta. Legara "The Merry Widow". Rupi (the gypsy) started a new dance. Here it is necessary to look, after all kopogosh begins. Oh, how he dances! He wrapped both arms around Maries waist and lifted and lowered his diminutive partner as if he were dipping a sponge cake in milk. Her forehead is already covered with perspiration, and a yellow rose is about to pop out of her hair ... Mixat. The story of Nosti Jr. and Maria Toth).
KOREAN LION (shishi mai) Japanese dance in fancy dress. Of Chinese origin. A dancer with a huge lions head dances among the assembled crowd, opens his mouth and shakes his mane to the loud sounds of the accompanying musicians pipes.
KOREAN PRODUCTS palim, hwang chan dance, tanak, fan dance, thalchum
KOZULYA dialect name of the quadrille.
KRUGOPLYAS a kind of round dance, dancing around, in a circle.
KRUNGLI ancient Armenian round dance. Image of cranes. Walking in circles, waving your arms, men walking around women.
KRUNK ("crane") Armenian mens dance of a cheerful, fervent nature. Competition of two groups of dancers.
KRUTIKHA see lavonikha.
KRYMSKO tatar valleys, khoran
KU KA RE KU household and ballroom dance, popular in the 70s of the XX century. The dancers were standing opposite each other. They took small steps from their heels, while simultaneously slapping their sides with bent elbows, imitating the movements of roosters wings, moving their necks, imitating the movements of a rooster when it sings.
KUBELAS (Litovsk. "barrel") is a Lithuanian folk dance. The dancers form a tight circle and place their hands on each others shoulders. A shape similar to a barrel is formed.
KUMBEH (cumbia) (Spanish: cumbe, cumbia) Negro dance in Latin America (Colombian, etc.). A mixture of Native American, African and European dance styles. Musical size 4/4. Short steps and sensual hip movements. The women are waving their long skirts, the men are waving huge machetes in the air. Popular in the lower strata of society. Here, mixing the sounds of timba and kilombo, cumbia rejoices, the heart is hot. The great-grandfather of the African once invented this half-dance, half-roar. But no one dances this sultry dance better than Juana, the daughter of Calambu (R. Miro. Cumbia).
KUMBIAMBA A Colombian Creole folk dance performed by men with lighted candles in their hands. Every day at 11 oclock in the morning, the train delivered boxes of champagne and brandy to him. Returning with them from the station, Auriliano II carried along with him, as if in an improvised cumbiamba, any human being who came across him (G. Garcia Marquez. One hundred years of solitude). Wed. coombe, yam bu.
KUPALA DANCES (from the name of the Slavic god Kupadlo) ancient dances, of pagan origin, on the days of the summer solstice (on Ivan Kupala, St. John the Baptist), which took place among the Slavs and other peoples of Europe. On the island of Chios (Greece), after the morning church service, the peasants gathered in the open ... and spent the afternoon imitating the "turning sun" in round dances (Calendar customs and rituals in foreign Europe); In the villages of Shumadia (Serbia), bonfires were lit by girls who gathered for this purpose at night on the hills. At bonfires ... girls with wreaths on their heads danced and sang ritual songs until sunrise (ibid.); In Portugal (on St. Johns Day). St. John the Baptist) boys and girls, and sometimes only girls, dance around the bonfire, making undoubtedly erotic gestures and emitting piercing screams (ibid.); In the Estonian summer solstice festival, there was a dance of naked women (R. Goodland. Bibliography of sexual rites and customs).
KURURU (cururo "black", "field rat") Brazilian circular dance with songs. When he finally found Aussas house in a maze of dirty streets where he had never ventured before, evening came, and the moon rose over the house where kururu was in full swing ... (J. Amadou. Miracle shop).
KUSHT DEPME Turkmen folk dance derived from dhikr (see).
KUYAVYAK (Polish. "resident of Kuyavia, Kuyavian region in Poland") is a Polish folk dance, paired mass, slow and smooth, soft, similar to a waltz. On the other hand, it is close to the Mazurka. In certain cases, the tempo changes, alternating. Couples move in a circle with rotation, boys lift and carry girls. In the character of kuyavyak "Mazurka No. 9" by F. Chopin. It is considered as a variant of the mazurka. Polish folk dance should be considered Krakowiak, kujawiak and obertas (Picturesque Russia. The Kingdom of Poland, Moscow, 1896, vol. 4, part 1); I chat with him at random… And I laugh, bowing my neck as if I had done a misfortune, and dance, all glowing in a wondrous guise, in a dazzling dream (V. Shimborskaya. Over wine).
KWANDO see cuando.
KWON CHIE Woo The peacock dance is an ancient Chinese dance of the Dai people. Mostly performed by one girl dancer on the stage of the theater. The room is dark, and the light is falling on the dancer. Only her figure is visible; gently and deftly she moves her hand and fingers, creating an image that looks like a peacock. The pace is average. At the end (by light), the other dancers come out. This dance is very popular (the peacock is a symbol of happiness in China).
KYRGYZ COMPANIES biy, jurkay salmay, kiiz, shapartepmay
KYSKA KUI fast-paced Tatar dance song. Cf. Tatar dances in the ballet by F. A. Shishkin. Yarullina "Shurale".
Kabardian the genus Lezginka (see) among Kabardians, Circassians, and other peoples of the North Caucasus. Wed. islamei.
LABAMBA (la bamba) Brazilian and Portuguese dance, fast-paced character. It goes back to Haran. Wed. bamba. I sing and dance labamba for you ... labamba is coming, doing everything and crushing everything (song in Portuguese. in Russian).
LABAYALA WALTZ (Estonian. "foot") is an Estonian dance, a type of waltz. Small steps with the whole foot and slightly bent knees.
LACON NYE (Lakhon Nai) A classic Thai court dance drama based on the tales of Prince Panj. Performed by a female dance group accompanied by a female choir. Cf. Siamese dance in R. Gliers ballet "Red Poppy".
LACON YANTRI (Lakon Yathri) A dance court drama in Thailand, of Buddhist origin. In the past, it was performed only by men, now by a mixed cast of performers.
LAMAIST DANCES dances of the inhabitants of the Himalayan foothills. They are performed in colorful masks to the energetic rhythm of the gna flat double-sided drum.
LAMBADA (port. lambada "stick strike", "lunge") ballroom dance of the 80-90s of the XX century (Brazilian or Bolivian origin), mass pairs (during the dance, couples break up). Swaying their hips strongly, the dancers move first in pairs, then line up in a chain (each takes the person in front by the waist). Boys rotate girls. It comes from samba. The word lambada comes from the Portuguese word used in Brazil to mean the movement of a whip like a wave. The bodies of the dancers imitate this wave movement (Wikipedia, free Encyclopedia); Lambada, lambada! Surf music! Lambada, lambada! Dance in the sand! Lambada, lambada will call with her, And I will not part with her (song).
LAMPROTERA (lamproteria) (from the Greek lamprotes "splendor") is an ancient Greek dance. He danced with naked dancers and extremely free words. In honor of Artemis, here considered the goddess of perfect health, completely naked girls and boys danced "Karyotis", a very proud and majestic dance, or "Lamproteru", the dance of purity and youth (I. Efremov. Thais of Athens).
LANCIER (fr. lancier "spearman", from lancer "throw") English pair ballroom dance with various movements (diagonally, squares, etc.) performed in various musical sizes; a kind of French quadrille with turns, bows; a kind of country dance. Another name is the Lancier quadrille. It was in fashion in the middle of the XIX century. In Russia, it was also called lanze, lanzo (colloquially) and was widely distributed. Small hands were extended to me with sweet benevolence in lanciers and quadrilles (V. Korolenko. The story of my contemporary); Spiridon Petrovich does not dance, but his heart beats in time with the sounds of Lancier (L. May. Dime).
LANDLER Generalizing name of slow Austro-Bavarian dances in three-quarter size. The name goes back, perhaps, to the name of a place in Upper Austria – Landl. Landler melodies existed as early as the 17th century. (for example, Schmelzers Aire Viennesi). Lendler can be considered the predecessor of Deutsch ("German [dance]") and the waltz, but Lendler was performed slower than the waltz and had a slightly different structure. For Lendler, the alternation of eight-and six-bar phrases is typical. Its variants are Steierische (Styrian [dance]) and Schuplattler (Tyrolean dance in wooden shoes). Melodies that resemble the lendler are found in Y.Haydn, W. A. Mozart, L. van Beethoven, F. Schubert and J. Strauss.
LANSAD (fr. lanzade "arc-shaped jump of a horse in the air", from lancer "throw") French dance. Cf. Lancier.
LANZE see lancier.
LAPAR Uzbek game comic satirical love lyrical song, accompanied by dances and games.
LARASPA see raspa.
LASHAN (lashu) (Veng. lassan, lassu) slow part of the chardash (male circular dance). See chardash, frishka.
LASSO 1 (from Latin arcanus "hidden, hidden, silent") Polish folk regional dance. Smooth affectionate movements of the dancers reveal their hidden feelings from each other. Bipartite size. The Poles also have some additional folk dances, namely: arkan, snyvas, haiduk, gural, oryl, skochek, tumka (Picturesque Russia. Kingdom of Poland).
LASSO 2 western Ukrainian male mass dance. Of a dynamic nature. Drawing of a circle or semicircle dance. The dancers hands are on the shoulders of those standing next to them; they take quick and large steps sideways, small jumps. Change of rhythm.
LATVIAN LANGUAGES achkups, belka, gatves deya, mugurdantsis, rutsevietis, sudmalinias, reaper dance, usinsha dance
LAY OUT a position in which the leg, open 90 degrees to the side or back, and the torso form one straight line.
LAZZI (it. lazzi "jokes, antics") buffoon numbers (musical, dance) inserted into the main action of the commedia dellarte.
LEAP jump from one foot to the other, moving forward or sideways.
LEGENESH DANCE (Weng. "guys dance") is a Hungarian folk dance that implies complete freedom of improvisation.
LEGONG (legong) indonesian dance. It is performed by two dancers, carefully made up, with fans, in a magnificent golden robe and elegant headdresses. They move with a long stride at a fast pace to an energetic melody, making synchronized gestures in accordance with the accompaniment of a gamelan (percussion instrument).
LEKURI (cargo. "Lezginka", from Leki" an ethnic group that lived in the territory adjacent to Georgia") is a Georgian solo male and female dance, mobile, fast and temperamental. See kartuli. Sample in Z. Paliashvilis operas "Absalom and Eteri", "Daisi". On the carpeted roof, the bride Sits among her friends: Among the games and songs, their leisure Passes… In the palm of their hands, beating steadily, They sing and the young bride Takes her tambourine. And here she is, circling it over her head with one hand, Now suddenly rushing more easily than a bird, now stopping, looking And her moist gaze glistens From under an envious lash; Now she moves her black eyebrow, Then suddenly bends down a little, And Her divine foot glides And floats on the carpet (M. Lermontov. The daemon).
LEOS MAMBO east African popular dance. Previously, the tea shop was called "Mambo Leo", and now the owner has decided to rename it "Uhuru "" Freedom "(Ngugi Wa Thiongo. Wheat grain).
LEP DANCE Lap dance is a type of erotic dance performed in night clubs. The client (customer) is sitting, and the dancer is either in close contact with him, or at a very close distance. He and she can touch each other. The dance can be a striptease on her part.
LESKOVOCHKA CHETVORNA Serbian folk dance, similar to divna, divna (see).
LETKIS (on behalf of the orchestra leader Anton Letkis) Finnish dance, a performing version of the letka".
LEYVA ritual song dance in Arabia, similar to zar (see).
LEZGINKA (Khkadardai makyam "jumping dance") is a Lezghian folk fast dance spread throughout the Caucasus. It is a competition of dancers showing dexterity and virtuosity. It can be performed as a solo male dance or as a pair dance. The musical size is 6/8, less often 2/4. The tempo is fast, the melody is clear and dynamic. Sample in M. Glinkas opera "Ruslan and Lyudmila". Leila takes her tambourine; She strikes it with her fingers, dances and sings a Lezginka… She whirls before him Like a moth in the sunset, And suddenly Picks up her tinkling tambourine with her white hands, Twirls it over her head, And moves her black eyes softly ... (M. Lermontov. Hadji Abrek); Sasha sometimes had to play Lezginka for Georgians who were engaged in winemaking in the vicinity of the city. While one of the dancers, in a papakha and Circassian cap, was rushing airily between the barrels, throwing first one hand and then the other behind his head, and his friends were clapping and shouting in time, Sashka also could not restrain himself and shouted animatedly with them: "Khas! Khas! Khas! khas!" (A. Kuprin. Gambrinus);…They danced tirelessly Lezginka, waving wildly in the air with table knives. Kuprin. Pit).
LIK (faces) (Church Slavs. "round dance, songs and dances") round dance, slow circular dance. And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took the tympanum in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tympanums and faces. Exodus); And Jephthah came to his house at Massatha, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and trumpets. Judges); And, behold, when the daughters of those who dwell in Shiloh come out to dance in rejoicing, come out of the vineyards and snatch a mans wife for yourselves... (The Bible. Judges); Let Israel rejoice in Him who created it… Let them praise His name in the face; let them sing to Him in the tympanum and psalter.
LILA (Sanskrit. "the game") is an Indian music and dance drama, folk performance. Wed. rasa lila.
LIMBO Limbo "edge", "threshold of paradise") is a Barbadian folk dance related to the African-American musical and dance culture. A dancer dances under a stick supported by another person, without touching it.
LINDY see jive.
LIONS DANCE see Korean lion.
LIPSY modern ballroom dance (of German origin), which became widespread in the second half of the XX century. A lively, energetic character.
LOGISTICS (Greek) dance art combined with musical play and singing, part of gymnastics, somersaulting to music.
LOKI DIL gypsy dance song. Sample in the work of P. Sarasate "Gypsy tunes". Alive as fun, as laughter is fun, The magic maiden Rushes, Whirls and dances, fast as an arrow, To the sounds of her native tune. As the air is light, swept and flies And amused by a frisky game; Wild as debauchery, spun, trembles And beckons with a lively smile (E. Huber. Gypsy girl).
LONGWAY long way is a type of country dance.
LOOP view of a round dance (tank) in the Kursk region. A wide vicious circle goes under the song.
LOW BACK rounding of the spine in the lumbocoracic region.
LUDKI (from lat. ludi "game, joke") is an ancient Armenian group dance, joyful and fervent. They dance with a proud posture, but also with humor. Walking in a circle, with the fingers intertwined. Musical size 4/4. The tempo is accelerating.
LUNDU (portug. londo, lundu) is an ancient Afro-Brazilian folk dance. Known since the XVI century. Choreographically similar to batuke and samba. Two dancers are in the center of the circle of spectators and musicians. Characteristic elements are the accentuated swing of the hips and the contact of the bellies. The musical size is dicotyledonous, the rhythm is sharply syncopated, the tempo is mobile. Since the end of the XVIII century, lundu appeared as a salon pair dance.
LUNDUN Brazilian dance of the Negroes of the province of Bahia. Wed. lunda. To the sound of lundun... shepherdesses move through the hall (J. Amadou. Miracle shop).
LURA (loure) (Fr. loure "heavy, ponderous; bagpipes; from Icelandic. l? dr "shepherds pipe") is an old French folk dance with slow movements. It was performed to the accompaniment of Lur. Musical size 6/4. Sample by J. S. Bach in "French Suite No. 5".
LUSHENG Chinese dance (Miao people); performed with a bamboo pipe.
LYANOK (Belarusian. "lenok") is a Belarusian folk maiden dance. Choreographic representation of the processes of growing and processing flax, with a fun ending.
LYAVONIKHA (from Belarusian. Lyavons name; Lyavonikha beloved or Lyavons wife) is a Belarusian folk pair-mass dance, fun, fervent, with a quick change of figures. The end of each musical phrase in the dance is marked with a light tap. According to the characteristic figure of the whirling steam, it was also called krutikha. Music size 2/4. After the stormy "kazachka" and "lyavonikha", a small gray-haired woman came on stage and sang in a sad contralto voice (Karavaeva).
Lezgin akhty chai, zarb makyam, lezginka, perizat, useynel, khanum, khkagardai makyam
MA Y ("horse dance") an ancient Chinese classical dance. Image of a military victory. Performed in honor of the ancestors or in honor of the founder of the dynasty, recalling his great deeds.
MACABRE (Macabre dance) according to medieval ideas, the dance of death, in which the dead of all ranks and ages circled in the cemetery as fun. It was also the custom in the Middle Ages to arrange a dance in the cemetery in imitation of the imaginary dance of the dead. See also the dance of death (dans macabre).
MACARENA modern Latin American dance. In addition to the movements of the legs and body, a large place is occupied by the movements of the hands: lifting them, stretching them in front of you, covering yourself by the shoulders, etc. Sometimes performed sitting down.
MADAGASCAR cicadola
MADISON madison is a modern ballroom dance of a group nature, of American-Canadian origin. It was popular in the mid-20th century. The figures are diverse; intensely expressive, the dancers are arranged in a line and stand opposite each other, sideways movements towards each other with side steps, which alternates with throwing out the left leg. Flapping of hands raised to the level of the face, snapping of fingers. They turn first one leg, then the other. The musical size is 4/4. The tempo is moderate. It originates from rock and roll. It looks like a slow-motion twist.
MAGLALATIK (maglalatik) Filipino male dance with coconut shell. Coconut shells are hung on the dancers backs, chests, and thighs. The dance dates back to the Spanish Morisca and also depicts the battle of the Christians with the Moors.
MAGODE (magode, from the Greek magadis "type of harp") ancient Greek household voluptuous dance. They danced in front of each other at a fast and fluent pace. They seemed to want to embrace each other all the time, yet they barely touched the tips of their lips. When they turned their backs to each other during the dance, they looked back over their shoulders, and the sweat glistened under their upraised hands, and the thin tips of their braids bounced on their chests… They collided voluptuously and bent their bodies at the hips. And so, all at once, they fell down to finish their tender dance on the floor (Bilitis. Memories of Mnazidik).
MAKARIKO (macarico, from the name of the bird) Brazilian circular dance. Womens imitation of the graceful movements of this bird.
MAKOSSA modern widespread Cameroonian dance. Couples dance to the slow beat; lots of people singly dance to the fast one.
MAKUMBA brazilian Negro dance of a religious and mystical nature. Synonym for candombe (see). Cf. kumba.
MALAGA (malaguenha) Spanish folk dance with singing, one of the prototypes of the fandango. The pace is moderate or moderately mobile. Musical size 3/8 or 3/4. The dancers act out a scene: the dancer, covering herself with a fan, runs away, and the partner tries to look into her face. Sample of the play of the same name by P. Sarasate; in the Spanish movie "Pretty Lola".
MALAMBO (malambo) dance of the Argentine Gauchos, as well as in Uruguay. They dance with a lasso, beating an energetic rhythm with kicks. It depicts the agility of a gaucho (cowboy) in taming a mustang. Then another group came out with a boy dancer. He danced the milonga, malambo and bolero of Ravel (M. Benedetti. Thanks for the light).
MALAY LANGUAGES mayong, menari
MALCHOKAS country picnics with dancing in Costa Rica.
MALIAN ngoro
MALUNELIS (Litovsk. "melnitsa") is a Lithuanian folk dance. Imitation of millstone rotation. One of the figures of the dance is the spinning wings of a windmill.
MAMBA American dance originating from the rumba. The dance begins with swaying hips at the count of "one", the first step is done at the count of "two".
MAMBO (mamba) (Spanish: mambo, from the Indian language, in which this word means "witch") is a pair ballroom dance of an improvisational nature, expressive, of Latin American (Haitian) origin. Its called cha cha cha and rumba. Mambo is a rumba with a beat beat. Short steps, hip movements, and stops in motion are typical. Music size 2/4 or 4/4.Tempo is moderate to fast. Sample dance piece "Mambo, mambo, Caballero"; scenes in the French movie "Dance with Me" ("Sexy girl"). Suddenly, the mamba trumpets stopped playing (G. Garcia Marquez. One hundred years of solitude); Lets dance the mambo… There is something in it that cannot be said in words, and love (the song) also dances to the rhythm of the mambo; He wanted to dance further, but then the orchestra started playing a terrible mambo, and he said meekly: "Thats the end of poetry "(F. Zionil Jose. My brother, my executioner).
MANGUPSKO KOLO serbian folk comic male dance. Performers form a semicircle, holding hands. The dance starts slowly, then speeds up.
MANIPURI manipuri, after the name of the ethnic group) is one of the classical dances (dance styles) India. Associated with the cult of Krishna. Performed by a dancer. A slow, sinking pace. Modest character. The dancers face is as still as a mask. It spins, turns smoothly, glides, tilts its head to one side. At the same time, the drummer dances frantically, creating a contrast to her undulating movements. Some types of Manipuri are performed very vigorously. It is usually performed during the full moon in March and December.
MANOLLA (Manola) (Spanish: manola "Madrid girl") Spanish dance. Musical size 3/4. A dancer in a frilly skirt that flutters and rises when circling, which allows the dancer to show her legs. Slow swing of the body to fast movements of the legs.
MAO Wu (Chinese: "bulls tail dance") an ancient Chinese dance. Holding an object that looked like a bulls tail, the dancer performed various movements.
MARACATU (port. maracatu, from the name of the ethnic group) Brazilian dance, related to the African-American musical and dance culture. It looks like a procession at a carnival: in bright clothes, under percussion instruments, with a solo dancer holding an ornate doll in the idols hand.
MARCH clearly walk to the music. Step on ? tact. Coordinate the movement of the arms and legs, keep your posture.
MARCH IN A CIRCLE Keep a circle, intervals, posture /raise your head/. Clearly walk to the music. Step on ? tact.
MARCH IN PAIRS IN A CIRCLE Keep pairs, keep a circle, and intervals. Walk exactly to the music.
MARE MARE an ancient Venezuelan ritual dance originating in the native American musical and dance culture.
MARIKITA (short name of the girl Maria) Latin American Creole dance. In samaquake.
MARINERA (Spanish: "matroska"). The name of samaqua in Peru and Chile. Pair dance with a scarf, playful nature. Guitars are ringing, drums are rattling, the melody of marinera is heard (S. Alegria. The Golden Snake).
MARRAFAS (marrafa) (port. marrafas "forelocks", "parting in the hair") an old Portuguese dance, performed under singing.
MARTOGATOSH hungarian dance. ...Lets look at each other, say a word of affection, enchant with a smile, and we will dance with you martogatosh and kopogosh... (K. Mixat. The story of Nosti Jr. and Maria Toth).
MASHISHI (matshish) (Portuguese: maxixe) is a Brazilian circular dance accompanied by percussion and noise instruments; of African origin. I borrowed a lot from Lundu. It was in fashion at the beginning of the XX century. It has incorporated features of the European polka, mazurka and Cuban habanera. Head and hand movements are prominent. The musical size is bipartite, the rhythm is syncopated. The pace is fast. The dance is sensual and relaxed. Chasse and pointe shoes. Sample Brazilian dance songs "Jacle Badua" ("For me the best place in the world is Jacle Badua"), "Mama, eu kero", in the Spanish film "The Last Verse". Matshish, tango, waltz, foxtrot, samba. She whirled with grace, but did not like these dances (J. Amadou).
MASSEMBA (rebita) is a common Angolan dance. Men and women stand in a circle, dancing sometimes separately, sometimes together. When dancing together, singing and clapping your hands. Accompanied by ngoma (special drum) and other local instruments. Women are wrapped in bright and expensive fabrics. An important figure is the turning of the man and woman towards each other and the contact of the navels (cf. umbigada). There are various dance options available. It is characterized by great elegance and warmth.
MATASSEN (fr. matassin, from Ital. mattacoino type of dance) is a French comic dance with wooden swords. It was performed by buffoons in squares with imitation of dances of ancient warriors. Matassinirovat funny dance, making faces and grimacing.
MATCHMAKING an old German round dance. A couple in love was entering the circle of dancers. After the dance of the young man who sought the favor of the girl, the couple returned to the general circle.
MATENIK (Czech. "confusion") is a Czech dance of a comic nature with alternations of various musical sizes.
MATLOT matelot (French matelote "sailor", from matelot "sailor") originally a Dutch and English sailors dance, close to the gigue. Musical size 2/4 or 4/4. The tempo is fast, with a characteristic tapping of heels. Illustrates labor processes on the ship. ...We paid attention to the characteristic dances: gavotte, matlot and some other particularly complex one (D. Grigorovich. My daughter, sir Miss Willsmetty, sir, who I hope will have the pleasure of dancing the quadrille, minuet, gavotte, country dance, fandango, matlot with you more than once. Dickens. Essays by Boz).
MATRADURA matredour is an old French dance, a kind of country dance. In this theater... all the kapellmeisters and even musicians were composers, and it was enough for them to find out that a new colleague had composed a matradura to prevent him from moving (D. Grigorovich. Kapellmeister Suslikov); my uncles orchestra was a source of the most lively enthusiasm for me. When they played for dances, such as ekosezes, matradur, quadrilles and waltzes, I picked up a violin or a small flute (piccolo) and imitated the orchestra (M. Glinka. Notes).
MAULIDI An Iranian dance performed on the occasion of the Nativity of the Prophet Mohammed. The dancers sit in a circle and rhythmically move their upper torso, gradually entering a trance state.
MAY DANCE (dance of the first day of May) an ancient Roman and Italian dance that was part of the May Day festival. At dawn, young people of both sexes, dancing to the sound of musical instruments, went out of the city into nature and plucked green branches there to decorate the doors of their parents homes and friends, who met them with covered tables with treats. The dances that accompanied the festival, innocent at first, later degenerated into obscene ones.
MAYONG Malay performance with dancing and singing.
MAYUFES ancient Jewish wedding dance. The three musicians at the head of the wedding procession, clarinet, violin, and tambourine, were playing mayufes, an ancient Jewish wedding dance. Respectable fat housewives... and gray-bearded respectable merchants formed a circle and sang along to the playful, sly tune, clapping their hands in time. Two elderly men were dancing in the middle of the circle. Holding their hands under their armpits with their palms turned outwards and their forefingers and thumbs folded in a bagel, their round bellies sticking out, they carefully walked around in a circle with simpering and comic importance (A. Kuprin. Wedding).
MAZUR (Polish. Mazur (a resident of the Masurian region, one of the regions of Masovia) is a Polish folk fun pair mass dance. The leading couple changes numerous figures during the dance, asking them to the rest of the participants. The girl of the leading couple, dancing, throws up a handkerchief, and which of the young men catches it, can dance with her. Performed under the singing of funny choruses. Compare the Mazurka. Apparently, the Mazurka, or more correctly the "Mazur", does not have to be spoken of as a dance well known to all Russians (Picturesque Russia. The Kingdom of Poland); How much and eloquently say copies of famous paintings, and especially that bookcase with sheet music, where Chopins sobbing waltzes lie, old Polish "Mazuras" (D. Mamin Sibiryak).
MAZURKA WALTZ waltz-like circular ballroom dance in the tempo and size of a mazurka (3/4) with its characteristic dotted rhythm. Among the varieties, the Russian version is popular: every four bars are danced alternately with waltz movements, then mazurkas. With his right hand, the cavalier holds the lady by the waist, she puts her left hand on his shoulder; his left and her right hands are joined and drawn to the side. When performing certain shapes (rotations, etc.), this position changes. Sample in the French movie "Ball".
MDOMDANT Chadian and Sudanese ritual dance of hunters. The beasts roam as God has ordained for them…And they do not know that they are wonderfully beautiful…And the hunter does not know about this, Because in the blazing afternoon he hides Behind a bush with a poisonous arrow And shouts over the defeated beast, Performing a hunting dance (N. Gumilev. Sudan).
MENAFITIK one of the oldest dances of Greece and other countries, ritually militant in nature. It was performed with a sword, spear, and shield; according to legend, it was invented by Minerva to celebrate the victory of the gods and the defeat of the titans.
MENARI malay and Indonesian dances. On the stage, three or four girls danced in groups, naked to the waist, taking turns, and the men watched their every move with bated breath (Li Guoliang. She had reached the end of the stage and was dancing slowly back to the stage when the old man suddenly jumped up and clutched convulsively at the glittering ribbons at her waist. Mei Feng staggered back in fright... her feet couldnt move gracefully anymore. She stopped dead in her tracks, saucers in hand, in the middle of the dais, choking back a sob. This caused a burst of wild laughter... With a cry, she rushed to the stage and disappeared in the back of the wings (ibid.).
MENEO (Spanish: meneo "swaying") an obscene dance of the gypsies in Andalusia.
MENTO mento is a Jamaican dance similar to the slow Cuban rumba.
MERINGUE (merengue) is a Colombian song and dance genre of African origin; a Venezuelan dance with African-American music. It has also spread to other Latin American countries. Dicotyledonous meters, the predominance of percussion instruments. Cheerful character; accompanied by singing. The rhythm is syncopated. Various national variants are characterized by movement of the knees inwards with their contact, strong swaying of the hips, turns, rotations; small advances, close distance between partners. They see the origin of choreographic features from the movements of slaves of the past, collecting sugar cane with their legs shackled. Also erected to haleo. It is also considered as a variant of tango, but at a faster pace.
METELITSA russian and Ukrainian folk pair dance. Of ceremonial origin, performed in winter. Fast-paced, with a clear rhythm. It looks like a Russian quadrille. Musical size 2/4. Dancing couples follow the leading pair in a circle, in a figure of eight, etc. In that neighborhood of mine, Where the girls, a little later, Will go To Dance a snowstorm With others, not with me (S. Gorodetsky. Bezruky).
MEXICAN ONES volador, dansa, daui namaca, caramba, mexican waltz, nahuatl peihcuntilly, sandunga, son, taguaro, charcoal dance, huapango, jarabe, harana, chipanegas
MEXICAN WALTZ a variant of the Viennese waltz, a group pair dance. Waltzing steps and clapping your hands left, right, in front of you, behind you.
MEZHER (English measure," measure", "dance") English dance, sedate and stately. Scottish giga, mezher, synkpace, moreska, minuet ... form an anthology of choreographic works of England of the XVII century (V. Pasyutinskaya. The magic world of dance).
MIKAGURA Japanese ritual dance and sacred mysteries performed in Shinto temples as an element of court ceremonies. Cf. kagura. Wonder how good it is! Who can dance so well? This is the priestess miko (from the collection of Japanese songs "Ryojin hise").
MIKITA lithuanian male dance. Music size 3/4. Moderate tempo. It is performed with sticks that the dancers jump over, crawl under, and so on.
MILONGA (milonga) an Argentine folk dance with singing. In the beginning, it was a dance of the urban lower classes of Buenos Aires. Later mixed with tango. The tempo is mobile, the musical size is dicotyledonous. Syncopated rhythm of the accompaniment, as in Creole tango. It doesnt bother anyone that its already one in the morning, and then two-thirty, when the four of us come down the stairs together, singing; a milonga cafe is waiting at every step (J. Cortazar. Model for assembly); Canha (vodka), milonga, women, in general, I was happy beyond measure (H. L. Borges. The man from the pink cafe).
MINION mignonne "tiny" is a Russian pair ballroom dance of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Musical size 3/4. Close to a waltz.
MINUET Dance of the 16th and 17th centuries, in a moderate tempo and three-part size; the name comes from the French word menu (pas menu – "step", "small step") or from amener (amener) - an Old French dance, a kind of branle. The minuet took the place of the chime and was the main court dance from the mid-17th to mid-18th centuries. Originally a country dance, the minuet later became a model of French court ballet. J. B. Lully was the first of the great composers to use the minuet, and it is believed that King Louis XIV was the first to dance the minuet at one of his balls. Characteristic features of the minuet are ceremonious bows, solemn passages forward, sideways and backward, graceful steps and easy gliding. From France, the minuet spread throughout Europe. In the 18th century. it was included in clavier suites (in three-part form: minuet-trio, actually the second minuet – minuet), occupying a place between sarabande and giga. In contrast to the allemande and courante, the minuet in the suite was interpreted as a moving dance in a simple texture. Unlike most Baroque dances, the minuet did not disappear in later epochs, but became part of the cyclic form in classical sonatas and symphonies of the 18th and 19th centuries. Authors of the pre-classical period, such as Ya.Stamitz, Georg Monn, and Josef Starzer, as well as the classics of J.Haydn, W. A. Mozart, L. van Beethoven and F. Schubert gave the minuet the third position in the four-part sonata and symphony cycle; in Beethoven, the minuet developed into a scherzo. The minuet of the classical period was strongly influenced by the Austrian peasant Lendler, as a result of which the minuet appeared characteristic wide melodic moves, jumps. In Mozarts Don Giovanni, the minuet, symbolizing aristocratic society, is written at a slow pace, but the minuet in symphonies and sonatas has always been more mobile.
MIRZAI (mirzaya) Azerbaijani male dance, solemnly majestic, gracefully slow. Performed by old people. Sample in the opera Z. Paliashvili "Absalom and Eteri".
MITAUB ancient Egyptian dance, considered the forerunner of belly dancing.
MIUDINHO (modinha) (Portuguese: miundinho, modinha, from moda "fashion") is a Brazilian dance of a sentimental or frivolous nature, dating back to Portuguese songs and dances of the same name. Women move with almost imperceptible small steps (like clockwork dolls), keeping the body motionless. The pace is fast, the rhythm is constant. To relieve some of the monotony of waltzes and quadrilles, young girls often give us pleasure by singing songs, arias and modignas, or something else (B. Guimaraes. The slave Isaura).
MODINHA see miudinha.
MOHOMBE YES Dance of north-east Africa is a theatrical dance performance performed to expel evil spirits from the patients body.
MOJ PA (iransk. "wave of legs") is an Iranian dance. It is based on a special movement of the legs and the position of the body with support on the hips.
MOKHIBO group dance of Soto women (South Africa). Women came out to meet us. Dancing as they went, they sang songs in honor of us (D. Livingston. Travels and research in South Africa); cf.: Then the young girls, singing a monotonous melody, performed a kind of sedate dance around him (J. Correct. Five weeks in a hot air balloon).
MOKOROTLO South African martial male dance of the Soto tribe. The dance depicts the fate of fallen soldiers in battle.
MOLDOVAN see Romanian and Moldovan languages
MOLDOVENEASCA (moldavenjaska) (Romanian. "Moldavskaya") is a Moldovan folk dance. The circle that usually starts moldovenjaskuis repeated after each new figure. Unexpected turns, body tilts, jumping up on two legs, shouting. Music size 2/4. The tempo is fast.
MOMERI (Fr. momerie "pretense, farce") an old French dance of a comic, entertaining nature. Compare the grotesque dance of buffoons in P. Tchaikovskys opera "The Maid of Orleans".
MONFERINO (Montferrina) (from the name of the town) is an Italian pair dance of peasant origin. Dicotyledonous size. A cheerful, lively character, graceful and simple. Later he became close to the country dance.
MONGOLIAN ONES andai, bijelge, yehor
MONIMASK italian dance. Since then, as soon as there is a solemn occasion: name day, dinner, congress, the old kapellmeister instructed Suslikov to write a quadrille, matradura, monimask, courant, in short, everything that was required (D. Grigorovich. Kapellmeister Suslikov).
MONTAGNARD bolivian mass dance. There are at least eight pairs, arranged in a column; between the pairs there is a large space for performing dance figures. Accompanied by bagpipes and trumpets.
MONTENEGRIN oro
MONTENERO uruguayan salon dance. Since the beginning of the XIX century. Performed with castanets. A choreographic derivative of the minuet, with a more lively middle movement.
MOON COROMROM Papuan dance of New Guinea. Dancing to the sound of drums form a long chain alone or in pairs. In front of the dancers, one dancer, unadorned like the others, moves backwards and backwards, with a few red flowers in his hair and a spear in his hand, pointing downwards, and a piece of coconut shell at the end of the spear, so as not to injure any of the dancers. The dance is monotonous, consists of smooth small steps and slight bending of the knees, the body slightly bends forward (N. Miklukho Maklay. New Guinea).
MOON DANCE ancient Greek ritual dance in honor of Selene. At night, girls with violets in their braids dance in pairs on the soft grass. In each pair, one represents a lover. "We are not for you!" the girls say. And those of them who are bashful cover up their innocent bodies. Aegipanus plays a flute under the trees. And others say: They have wrapped their dresses around them like mens tunics, and they struggle listlessly, stirring their dancing feet. Then those who have declared themselves defeated take their friends by the ears and, tilting them like a cup, drink a kiss (Bilitis. Dancing in the moonlight).
MOON POISON New Guinea Papuan dance performed in the morning. The two main participants perform intricate steps. In addition to them, women who hold bows and arrows in their hands take part in the dance. Energetic character.
MORESKA (Morisco). A pantomime dance, apparently of Moorish origin, known since the early Middle Ages. The dancers, in keeping with the strongly romanticized idea of the Moors, wore grotesque costumes with bells at the ankles; the music was dominated by dotted rhythms and exotic timbres. Often the faces of one or more dancers were painted black. In Europe, the dance spread in those regions where there were contacts between Muslims and Christians. European moresca originates in Spain, where it is mentioned as early as the 15th century. The musical and dance scene and sometimes the final ballet scene were often referred to as Moreska, as for example, in the opera by K. A. Moreska.Monteverdi Orpheus (1607). In England, the morris dance was performed during the May Games, where six dancers formed two opposing rows. Around 1900, there was a Moresque revival in England, due to a general interest in ancient art.
MORESKA 1 (ital. moresca "Moorish") Italian (also in other nations) dance, a musical dance scene. Since the Middle Ages. The dancer ("moor") had bells tied to his feet. Two choirs participated in the performance. Dotted rhythms. A lot of space was taken up by the flapping of arms and legs. The plot included elements of stage play and dance. Sample in Monteverdis opera "Orpheus".
MORESKA 2 French Provencal carnival dance, formed under the Moorish influence.
MORISCA 1 (Spanish morisca "Moorish") an ancient Spanish dance in the style of the Moors. Dance of round dance movement. What should I play? Ill start with morisca. Who should I name first? Florela! I want to start with you! (Lope de Vega. Dance teacher); When in the evening She flutters to a merry circle Or sings with a guitar About the battle of the Moor and the Spaniard… In every heart will tremble, Who does not look at the beauty ... (J. Byron. The girl from Cadiz).
MORISCA 2 (moresca) a Spanish dance representing the battle of the Christians with the Moors and associated with the Arab rule of the Iberian Peninsula. Sample in the finale of C. D. A. Monteverdis opera "Orpheus". Morisca is also danced on Corpus Christi (the feast of Corpus Christi), when young men, divided into two parties, each led by its "king", depict a pantomime of battle in the dance, and on other major holidays (Calendar customs and rituals in foreign European countries).
MOROCCAN taskivin
MORPHASMAS (Greek. "taking form") is an ancient Greek comic dance in which the transformation of gods was imitated by means of a large number of figures; various animals were imitated.
MORRIS (Morris dance) (English morris "Moorish") an old English grotesque dance in costumes of characters from the legend of Robin Hood. The dancers stood in two opposite rows. It is assumed that this dance came to England from the East. The Countess: Is that how your answer fits every question? Jester: As appropriate as a bribe to a lawyer...as a pancake on Shrovetide, as a Morris dance on May Day. Shakespeare. The dancers were of both sexes: girls in bright bodices and skirts, men in colored shirts, with ribbons on their arms and legs, with bells on their garters, and other ornaments befitting this folk dance… Dancing and scenes from Robin Hood were considered by all to be the most interesting sight (Mayne Reid. White Glove); Morris merry noise passed… All is past and gone (J. Keats. Robin Hood).
MORSIANA (Spanish murciana, from the name of the city) a local variety of seguidilla (see).
MOSAMALA (mosamala) (Spanish: moza mala "bad girl") Peruvian dance.
MSUNYUNSO East African collective dance with the entire community. They dance at harvest festivals, during the dry season, performing rain-inducing songs, and on other occasions. Often dancers perform in masks. Once a poor Abyssinian heard That far away, in the north, in Cairo, Zanzibar girls dance And sell love for money (N. Gumilev. Zanzibar girls).
MTIULURI (cargo. "mountain dance") is the general name of a group of dances of the peoples of Georgia, which includes Svan Tseruli, Kartalino Kakheti mtiuluri, Mkhedruli or Adjarian mkharuli, Khonjouri, etc. Music size 6/8 or 2/4. The tempo is fast. Incendiary nature. Jumping and moving on your toes, horse riding simulation. Sample in the opera Z. Paliashvili "Daisi". Lighter than a bird, lighter than arrows, The Mountain dance is swift and bold, The circle is over, and again the veil curls like a cloud (m. Kuzmin. Lighter than a bird...).
MUCHONGOLO african dance of pedi tribes. Performed with shields, it has traces of an ancient hunting dance.
MUGURDANTSIS Mugura "back" and dancis "dance") is a Latvian folk dance. Music size 2/4.
MUKUARI ritual male dance of the South American Indians (Arawaks) as part of a funeral rite with the dancers moving slowly in a circle. By the time we arrived, mukuari was in full swing… This rite had little in common with ordinary ritual dances, and although the participants performed dance moves to the beat of humming drums, the essence of the dance was not in this, but in beating each other with barbed rods. The purpose of the rite was quite clear: on the one hand, to propitiate the soul of the deceased, showing what suffering his death brought to the living, and on the other ...distributing blows to the right and left, to drive the soul of the deceased away from people in case it plotted evil plots against them (A. Fiedler. White jaguar chief of the Arawaks).
MULINE (French: moulinet "small mill, fast rotation") see sam.
MUNGONGO acrobatic and mimic dances of the West African Lunda people.
MURAKKAH arabic wedding dance. It is played with drums and idiophones, as well as wind solos.
MUSET mussette (French: "bagpipes") is an old French folk dance performed to the accompaniment of bagpipes. Compan, in ancient times, shepherds returning in the evening with their flocks, decorated with wreaths and flowers, sang and danced to the music of this instrument to please young beauties. Later ballet stage dance, ballroom dance. It was performed by a large number of pairs. Music size 2/4, 6/4, 6/8. The tempo is fast. Samples in English suites by J. S. Bach, in works by A. Glazunov, M. Ravel.
MUSHO Ethiopian dance for the deceased. All the women beat their open chests until they hurt, shouting loudly, telling good things about the deceased. Walking left and right; moving in a circle, bouncing slightly. They dont eat or drink anything. The dance lasts all day, but with interruptions.
MUÑEIRA (muneira) Spanish Galician folk dance and chant of Galician folklore.
MY GRANDFATHER Romanian folk popular dance, paired, with many spins. Girls move around boys. Sometimes it is performed not in pairs, but in threes. Music size 2/4.
MY LADY (the name comes from a word from the song) Russian folk dance, solo or paired, lively, fervent. Circling, crouching, and other shapes. Musical size 2/4. Mitka tuned up the balalaika and again well done rattled the lady with breaks and interceptions (L. Tolstoy. War and peace); The guitar rang wildly, the heels clattered, the dishes rattled on the table and in the cupboard, and in the middle of the kitchen a Gypsy Boy flamed like a kite, flapping his arms like wings, moving his legs imperceptibly; he whooped, crouched on the floor and darted around in a golden haircut, lighting up everything with the glitter of silk ... (M. Gorky. Childhood).
NABATKHANUM Tabasaran womens smooth dance.
NACHTANZ (German Nachtanz "dance after") the second dance (mobile) in a pair of dances. Cf. frischka.
NADUTTA nadadutta is an Indonesian dance derived from the ritual gestures of priests and performed while sitting with movements of the torso, head, and arms. The rhythm changes many times.
NAGORABAZM (Tajik. nagora "timpani" and bazm "fun") Tajik folk mass dance. A circular motion; the dancers spin rapidly, shifting from one foot to the other.
NAHUATL PEIHCUNTILLY Mexican folk dances in the 17th century, which the Catholic Church included in its sermons to attract Mayan citizens.
NANDVINZE (Nandwinza) Indian masked dance drama, the main content consists of episodes from the Ramayana; Burmese palace drama with music, singing and dancing.
NAT PVE Burmese dance based on a ritual cult performance (associated with the cult of ancestors), which included dancing, recitation and musical accompaniment. Performed by dancers in a state close to trance. Back tilted forward, knees bent, smiling face.
NATYA (natya) Indian dance dramas with a developed sign language (semantically defined gestures and body movements). Cf. Dance of an Indian dancer greeting Afanasy Nikitin with dance gestures in the Soviet film "Walking across Three Seas". See Bharat Natya.
NATYILAR modern Turkmen mass dance. Only even-numbered girls participate. Soft hand movement, smooth step. Music size 6/8.
NAURSKAYA STREET North Caucasian fast dance.
NDLAM ancient South African Bantu dance. It is performed by a very large number of participants in costumes made of animal skins, with fur bracelets, in headdresses made of bird feathers. The composition of the dance is linear and indicates a connection with hunting.
NE SARPA (ne sarpa) Tibetan pilgrim dance. It depicts the journey of several pilgrims to a holy place. They dance to an energetic, fast tune.
NEMBUTSU ODORI Japanese dance with very bold movements. A young virgin with her dance Invites happiness to a new home, Pearls ring on her bracelets... (Sadoka, an ancient Japanese song).
NEMO a type of dance performed by the southern Slavs (Serbs, etc.) without music, to the rhythm of the dancers steps and to the "accompaniment" of coins sewn on costumes or headdresses, strung like a necklace.
NEW ZEALAND COMPANIES haka, sing
NGOMA South African round dance of the Ngoni tribe. Performed in an agricultural ceremony. Smooth character of game and dance movements.
NICE CITY an old Spanish dance of an elegant character. Imported to Spain from France. "What kind of dances can you name?" "There are many ... Nice… Then the perky galliard..." What is this? "" Imported from France." "And how does it dance? ""I wish the instrument was with me, Otherwise I would be very happy to show it to you Now: Jumps, bends and hugs... ""Hugs? ""In the French way" (Lope de Vega. Dance teacher).
NOGAI WALTZ lyric dance of Nogai music.
NOGAYSKIE ISLANDS nogai waltz
NOR [HOP] step jump, the "working" leg is usually in the "knee" position.
NORTH AMERICAN (USA, CANADA) black bottom, boston, break, break dance, boogie woogie, western waltz, cow dance, jitterbug, cupcake, monkey, madison, ragtime, rock and roll, dog dance, bison dance, tambourine dance, buffalo dance, beggars dance, fire dance, twist, turkish march, two step, one step, foxtrot, hali gali, hesi, charleston, shimmy
NORWEGIAN gangar, springdance, torchlight dance, halling
NRITTA (literally "pure dance") an Indian dance performed by a single female dancer. Movements mainly with the upper torso, shoulders, neck, following the rhythm of the music. Eye movements are diverse (expressive glances of various kinds). Symbolism of hand and hand gestures. The movements of the abdomen and thighs are less diverse. Like the autumn moon, her white face With long eyes, Her hands gently falling from her sloping shoulders, Her breasts are measured, Her hips are precisely polished, she has a delicate appearance, She is all beautiful, Her toes are curved, her body is all a dream, The embodiment of dancing… The whole body seemed to speak, The meaning of the game was pictorial, The dimension was observed by the legs, The right path was found for the feeling. Elegant was the movement of the hands, For pauses there was a proper turn, After the feeling, the feeling was revealed, All the passion to the extreme link (Kalidasa. Malyavika and Agnimitra).
NRITYA ("complex dance") Indian pantomime dance, a story dance performed by a female dancer. Variety of choreographic parts. Using sign language (see natya). It is accompanied by poetic texts.
NUNUFAR (Armyansk. "tulip") is an Armenian female dance. Image of a girls beauty. The dancers hand movements depict a blooming tulip.
OASH DANCE (according to the name of the area) Romanian folk dance, mass pair dance. The pace is average. The movements are sharp and syncopated. In pairs, the girl sometimes walks behind the young man, her left hand resting on his right shoulder. Head tilts from shoulder to shoulder along with body movements in the same direction. The dance is restrained by nature.
OASIVAS oasivas ("swing") is a Filipino dance of fishermen who swing and circle a lighted kerosene lamp wrapped in a net while holding it on their head.
OBEREK (oberec, obertas) (Polish. "turn, spin") is a Polish folk dance, mass-produced in pairs, fun and lively. Rotational movements are characteristic. They dance to the sound of singing. The movement of pairs in a circle, in a straight line, diagonally. One of the dance elements is jumping with alternate throws of the legs back, the other is a young man kneeling in front of a girl. It is considered as a variant of the mazurka. It is often performed after a slow kuyavyak. Sample in the works of F. Chopin (4th Mazurka for piano). On a platform...made of rough planks, decorated with fir branches and ribbons, the oberek danced (Vol. Novak).
OBERTAS (Polish. obertas (jokingly from oberek) is a Polish folk dance, a type of oberek. The ballet depicts Cracow villagers in folk costumes and in folk dances mazurka, Cracowiak and obertas (newspaper "Severnaya Pchela", 1853, No. 30); Polish peasants are inclined to the public; therefore, every holiday old and young, boys and girls flock to the tavern, where they enthusiastically indulge in obertas to the sound of a hurdy-gurdy and to Cracowiak (Vestnik Zapadnaya Rossiya, 1865, vol. 1, No. 4, book 3); Inside, a cheerful obertas thundered, at times a parubok shouted "U ha!", and there was a stamping of heels ... Sheaves of bright light splashed out of the windows into the darkness of the summer night, and every bar in the tavern seemed to shudder, waver and he sang (G. Senkevich. Janko is a musician).
OBKROCHAK (from Czech. "ride, step over") Czech folk dance, which is a pair rotation in simple steps. A young man, standing face to face with a girl, holds her with both hands around her waist, and both of her hands are on his shoulders. The steps are performed simultaneously, with the legs bent at the knees. Obkrochak is included as part of many other dances. Music size 2/4.
OBLIQUE POST Russian folk round dance procession (in the Arkhangelsk region). Singing girls in pairs in a column walk along the street.
ODISSI ancient indian classical dance, religious destination. It depicts love for God and devotion to Him. Smooth, soft movements and graceful poses. Performed by a dancer to lyrical music. It combines many features of other Indian dances (see Manipuri, Bharat natyam, kathak). It is characterized by heel tapping, jumping of various types, leg tossing, rotation on one leg, complex body flexion. The dancer sometimes freezes for a few seconds in a certain position and becomes like a statuette. It was performed in temples and palaces of rajas.
OH NAZAN (Armyansk. "darling") is an Armenian round dance to the song of the same name. The line of dancers moves forward, backward, sideways, in a circle.
OKINA Japanese dance prayer, depicting the ritual of purification. Performed on special occasions on stages.
OKLAZM (from the Greek oklazo "squat") ancient Greek household dance. The dancers bent their knees and rose again, kicking their feet forward.
OLD SIEVE AND TROUGH croatian folk mixed dance. Sometimes performed in pairs. The pace is average. It has an improvisational character.
OLD WOMENS DANCE ancient Mexican ritual dance. It was performed on hot coals.
OLE Spanish Andalusian dance of a sensual nature. A combination of quick movements of the hands and the whole body. Similar to haleo and fandango. I sing and dance haleo, as well as ole and bolero. Garcia Lorca. Mariana Pineda); The charm of Ole lies in the movements that are at once inflexibly proud and sweet, perky to the point of impossibility, but which cannot be reproached even in the shadow of debauchery. The melody of the dance is emphasized by a sharp whistle, similar to the sighs of a snake in love. This is a sharp and intoxicating aroma of dance in the form that the people create it (A. Dumas father).
OLE OLE hawaiian folk dance. Wed. hula. She (the young kanaka) stood motionless in one place, but her whole body curved to the right and left, back and forth, with her head almost touching the ground; the dancers movements became faster and faster; the kanaka musicians increased their tempo...; finally the dancers torso completely spun in a rapid movement… But suddenly the sounds stopped abruptly, and the kanachka stood motionless, unmoving. She was sweating profusely, and her eyes were glittering wildly. This is the dance of ule ule. Stanyukovich. Around the world on the "Kite").
OLIVETE Italian peasant dance performed after harvesting olives. They dance in a field; the dancers run one after the other, wrapping their arms around three trees or three other stationary objects.
ON KUBI Slovak folk dance (in the western regions), paired or paired mass. The pace is average. Performers in pairs can hold hands or, having separated them, dance in front of each other. The girl can spin in place in front of the boy; the boy can squat in front of the girl or move around her. Dancers can take turns slapping each other. There are also movements of pairs in a circle, paired rotations, lifting and transferring a girl.
ONE STEP one "one" and step "step") ballroom fast marching dance of the early XX century and later. Of North American origin. It was created on the basis of simplified two-step dance moves. Musical size 2/4, less often 6/8. One of the predecessors of the foxtrot, quickstep. Sample dance piece of the 30s of the XX century "Bimbambula".…They made their way to the fenced-in area where a few but tireless couples were dancing. A fairly large orchestra played foxtrot and one step (T. Dreiser. An American tragedy).
ONE-LEGGED TRIBUTARIES Size 2/4. Dribble for a strong fraction of each beat.
ONE-WAY serbian folk dance. The name comes from the asymmetrical movement of dancers making large movements, steps to the right and barely noticeable to the left.
ORAI Ancient Greek dance in honor of Or, the goddesses of the seasons. They were performed by young men wearing ivy wreaths.
ORIENTAL DANCE See rax sharkey, belly dance.
ORIENTALIA oriental dance. Cf. such a dance introduced in S. Prokofievs opera "Betrothal in a Monastery" ("Duenna"), the odalisque dance of Monna, the bayadere dance in A. Adans ballet" Giselle", in the Spanish film" Queen of Chanticleer "(performed by Mata Hari), in the Argentine film"The Age of Love".
ORO Montenegrin dance, a variant of kolo (see).
OSMERKA Russian folk dance in Siberia. Performed in four or eight pairs. Wed.eight.
OSSETIAN meeting
OSUOKAI Yakut mass circular dance with chants. I will come to these snowy regions Again and again To see how my Yakut Girl (song) dances.
OTHER AFRICAN DANCES bansango, bullo, washavi, visa, Gableishimbir, givha, Hottentotada, Gundi, domba, dalimau, zar, ka maoto, witch dance, mambo leo, mgoro, migoro, mokorotlo, mokhibo, mohambe da, msunyunso, mungongo, muchongolo, ngodo, ngoma, blood dance, tishukanchanga
OTHER AMERICAN (LATIN AMERICAN) DANCES guineo, guaguanco, guaracha, yambambo, yam bu, colombia, cumbia, macarena, malchocas, mambo, marikita, mucuari, raspa, resbalosa, rumba, chica
OTSUVANY (Polish. odsuwany from odsuwac sie "to move away") is a Polish folk dance in which dancers in pairs, on command or on a certain musical beat, move sharply away from each other or approach each other.
OZHALYALIS (Litovsk. "kozlik") is a Lithuanian folk dance. Musical size 2/4. The tempo is moderate. Accents on the second quarter of every second measure. Imitation of butting, jumping and kicking of a goat, goat fights.
Oleg Indonesian dance (on the island of Bali), close to legong (see). Rhythmically waving their fans, the dancers move in sync with each other.
PACHANGA (Spanish: pachanga "lively evening") a Cuban dance, a combination of merengue and conga, fast and syncopated.
PADEGRAS ballroom pair dance, created in Russia at the end of the XIX century. on the musical basis of the gavotte. The pace is average. Pairs move in a circle. Graceful, calm movements, alternating soft steps with squats and fixed poses.
PADEKATER pas de quatre (French: "dance of four") is a ballroom pair dance of the first half of the XX century, simple in execution. Partners in a pair dance face to face, with both hands joined and spread out to the sides. A short sliding step is combined with a waltz movement. Musical size 12/8, 4/4. Between Polish and Mazurka there are simply dances: krakowiak, pas de quatre, which, despite the fact that they are written in a new and elegant way, seem superfluous to us. Odoevsky. Second letter to a music lover);…Chacon, padecatre, mignon and other dances that were quickly forgotten later (Balls and holidays in Russia) came into use over the years.
PADEPATINER pas de patineur (French for "skaters dance") is a ballroom pair dance that originated in Russia at the end of the 19th century, with characteristic gliding movements that mimic the movements of skaters. Musical size 2/4, 4/4. Tempo is moderately fast. You should have seen him (the paramedic) famously danced with her (the widow of the priest) fashionable dances, pas despagne, pas de patiner, Cracowiak and Lezginka... Kuprin. Small fry).
PADESPAN Pas dEspagne (French for "step, dance of Spain") is a ballroom pair dance from the 19th century. Music size 3/4. Tempo is moderately fast. It consists of elements of an arranged Spanish dance. While there were no guests, he and Isai Savich slowly learned the pas dEspagne dance, which was beginning to become fashionable at that time (A. Kuprin. Yama); He asks everyone to drain their glass "to the lovely ladies, so that the new year will bring them new happiness!" A long standing ovation, however, does not drown out the noise that was clearly heard from above, where the ladies, left alone, dance padespan (Ch. Dickens. Essays by Boz).
PADESPANETS the Russian dialect name of the padespan dance.
PADOANA (Padovans) (Ital. "Paduan") is an ancient Italian dance originating from the city of Padua, slow in nature, close to the pavana.
PAIDUSHKO HORO Bulgarian folk dance (in the Northern region). Synonym for severnyashka. Mixed, with any number of participants. Dancers hold hands and move in a circle, line or snake. The pace is medium or fast.
PAKHRA (Uzbek "cotton") Uzbek dance. We will take the dutars in our hands, we will beat the tambours… With a fervent song, girls go among the fields, Picking cotton, circling around its stems (Uzbek song).
PAKISTANI COMPANIES jory, sarigan
PALOTASH palotas, from palota "palace") Hungarian ballroom pair moderate slow dance of the XIX century, which originated on the basis of folk dance music. Predecessor of chardash. Musical size 4/4 and then 2/4. Sample in Hungarian rhapsodies by F. Liszt, in A. Glazunovs ballet "Raimonda".
PAMBICHE (pambiche) type of meringue, slower.
PAMIR ISLANDS dance of the bear
PANTAZOO Hungarian Transylvanian folk dance. Foot movements are combined with claps.
PAPLYANCHO Armenian male comic dance. The movements of a rope dancer are imitated (on an imaginary rope).
PAPUAN moon coromron, moon poison, dance of the sorcerer, sel moon
PARAGUAYAN COMPANIES golondrina, montonero, paraguayan polka, santa fe
PARIS QUADRILLE the same as cancan.
PARNASSUS DANCE (parnasse) ancient Greek womens dance, fast character. Women danced it annually on Mount Parnassus or on the road, making synchronized rapid movements.
PARNAYA LEZGINKA ingush folk dance.
PARRANDA (Spanish: parranda "a group of musicians walking around the city in the evening") mass Colombian open-air dances. They are accompanied by singing and playing of instrumental ensembles.
PAS (FR. PA, RUS. PA) step; movement or combination of movements; used as equivalent to the concept of "dance".
PAS BALANCE a pa consisting of a combination of tombe iraz de Joiggee. Performed with movement from side to side, less often forward and backward.
PAS CHASSE an auxiliary jump with progress in all directions, in which one leg "catches up" with the other at the highest point of the jump.
PAS DE BOURREE [PAS DE BOURRET] a dance auxiliary step consisting of alternating steps from one foot to the other with the ending in demi plle. A synonym for step pas de bourree, in modern jazz dance, the position of sur le cou de pied is not fixed during the pas de bourree.
PAS DE CHAT [PAS DE CHA] a jump that limits the cats jump. Legs bent at the knees are thrown back.
PAS DE RUBAN see dancing with the ribbon.
PAS DE TROYES pas de trois (French: "step, dance of three") is a Russian ballroom pair dance of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, consisting of elements of minuet, mazurka and waltz. Music size 3/4.
PAS FAILLJ connecting step, consisting of holding the free leg through the passing demlplie in the I position forward or backward, then the weight of the body is transferred to the leg with some deviation from the vertical axis.
PASACHKA (Czech. "polosochka, lenta") is a Czech folk pair mass dance. In a pair, a girl and a young man dance first facing each other, holding hands; later, they put their hands on their hips and dance with jumps. Music size 2/4.
PASAMEZZO (passamezzo, passamet, pazamezzo) (from pasar "to pass", literally "dance in one and a half steps") ancient Italian dance (XVI-XVII centuries), close to the pavana, slow in nature, but faster than the pavana. Later, a ballroom dance. Music size 2/2, 4/4.
PASILLO Pasillo (Spanish: "corridor, passage") is an Ecuadorian and Colombian rural dance (song dance) related to the Creole dance and music culture. Musical size 6/8 vs 3/4. Close to the Cuban bolero. He also entered the social salons of Cuba. Of a gentle nature.
PASO DOBLE Paso doble (Spanish: "double step") is an emotional Spanish dance. It was popular in the first half of the XX century. The rhythm is clear and somewhat whimsical. The pace is moderately fast. It goes back to the music and movements of a bullfighter during a bullfight. The elements of the dance are a high-lifted chest, shifting from one foot to the other, dodging, cross-turning, steps mostly from the heel. Famous examples of paso doble are the dance pieces "Rio Rita", "Torrado di Madrid" ("Bullfight in Madrid"), "For Complete Happiness", in the Austrian film "Golden Symphony". When the orchestra began to play paso doble, she crossed her arms, threw her head back, and kicked the ground with her heel, showing a high style (C. de Beauvoir. The power of age); Finally, I see a partner who can do something with their feet, and not just hysterically kick them. Tango, foxtrot, passo doble, nostalgic waltz… I think my partner is tired. He smiles (M. Mercier. Marquise of Angels).
PASSACAGLIA 1 (passacaglio, passacaglia, passaquel) (from Lat. passare "pass" and callis "road, street") is a song, later a slow dance of Spanish origin. Originally performed on the street under the guitar when guests leave the festival. Sample of the play of the same name by J. S. Bach; in D. Shostakovichs opera "Katerina Izmailova".
PASSACAGLIA 2 (pasacalle) Latin American (Chilean) dance. Gallant, with a tap dance. The mans hands are raised and folded, with clenched fists. It comes from the Spanish paso doble. As if you had a premonition that as soon as Celia appeared with her freckled face, the entire collection of lutes would start playing a frenzied passacaglia ... (X) Cortazar. Model to build).
PASSE the passing motion that binds the leg from one position to another can be performed in the first position on the floor (passepar terre), either by 45° or 90°.
PASSEPARTOUT Live French dance of the 17th and 18th centuries, originated in Northern Brittany. Passepartout is characterized by a fast pace, size 3/8 or 6/8; many movements based on crossing the legs. Samples of passier can be found in works by J. S. Bach, J. K. F. Fischer, and ballets by Viennese composers of the 17th century, as well as in French opera of the early 18th century.
PASTOREL (pastoral) (from pastor "shepherd") a cheerful lively shepherds song, as well as a rural dance. Sample in L. Beethovens ballet " The Works of Prometheus "(performed by muse Talia with her nymphs). Why did the couples get closer, the gentlemen embrace the ladies more tightly, and some of them take some bold steps during this pastoral, always so solemn, so stately, so well-bred? (J. Verne. Dr. Ochs); A shepherd and a cowgirl hunt Lime for a dance of days and nights (J. Lily. The Song of Pan).
PAVANA The opening dance of the balls of the 16th and 17th centuries, in a dicotyledonous (sometimes three-domed) scale, was a slow, stately procession. Pavana comes from Spain, its name is related to the word pavo ("peacock"); perhaps pavana is a late form of bass dance. In the 17th century, the pavane was usually followed by a fast, jumping galliard. In Italy and Germany, padova (from the name of the Italian city of Padua) was often synonymous with pavana. German composers in the period after 1600 (for example, I. G. Schein) wrote solemn, magnificent compositions, which they called "pavans". Pavanes were also composed by the English madrigalists W. Bird, J. Bull, O. Gibbons, and J. R. R. Tolkien.Among contemporary composers, the pavane was revived by M. Ravel and Morton Gould.
PAVO Pavo (Spanish: "turkey") is a Chilean dance that includes game and sports elements.
PAWN SHOPS ("dance of Lombardy") an old Italian folk dance related to saltarella (see).
PEACOCK DANCE Chinese dance. See kuong chie wu.
PEDICTOS greek dance with jumps.
PENCHAK (ext. "tiger") is an Indonesian dance that expressively conveys the character of this animal.
PEPERUDAS DANCE ("BUTTERFLIES") ritual dance of rain evocation among the Bulgarians (cf. dance of the Dodola). A girl covered in greenery bounces around, fluttering like a butterfly, and is doused with water. Peperuda dances to a song sung by accompanying girls or girls, pouring water over her.
PEREGURDINA (named after the ancient region of Perigord in France) French dance, a kind of minuet.
PERENITSA Romanian folk wedding dance. Performed with a handkerchief. Participants are arranged in a circle or semicircle, moving counterclockwise. One by one, they stand in the center of the circle and perform a solo dance.
PEREPLYAS russian folk pair or group dance. But the Russian solo dance is especially good, when two men compete in a wild dance, a girl and a guy dance in a pair duel. The girl in it coquettishly invites, and the young man seeks to answer her with dashing and prowess. Pasyutinskaya street. Magic world of dance); Father calls his son. They came out to fight for good. My father is thirty, my son is seven. Father with a click, father with a shot, father with a twist of the knees, father around, son with a top is not inferior at all (A. Tvardovsky. Land of Ants); Girls wince, drink to the bottom, Joke, and dance, and sing songs. Hoot merchant sings along and whistles. On the ground foot knocks well done (And. Nikitin. Rode from the fair hoot merchant).
PERICOTUS (Spanish: pericote) an old Spanish dance. One man dances with two women (performed by four men with eight women). Men take very complex steps, interlacing their legs, demonstrating courtship; women rhythmically turn to the right and left, as if flirting.
PERIZAT (Perizat Khanum) Lezgian slow smooth dance.
PETIT BATTEMENT (petit batman) "small kick" alternately small, short kicks with the foot in the ku de pye position in front and behind the support leg.
PHALLIKA (phallic) dances of various peoples associated with the use of the phallus (its carrying, etc.), can be accompanied by free songs. In Spartan dances, women dressed like men and wore phalluses (R. Goodland. Bibliography of sexual rites and customs); In Equatorial Africa, women wear a wooden phallus when dancing (ibid.); A very interesting form of the twinning ritual existed in Sardinia… This rite ended with dancing in front of phallic symbols (Calendar customs and rituals in foreign European countries).
PHIZS drinks with the addition of carbonated water. For their preparation, special devices are used by makers, into which ice is lowered, a specially prepared mixture is poured and shaken. The mixture is filtered through a strainer into glasses or glasses, carbonated water is added from a siphon and served with a straw.
PICCE (Rus. - pikke) - "stabbing": a quick touch with the toe of the floor.
PICKYALOCHKA FORWARD One type of picker is the Musical size 2/4. On the 1st beat, the right/ left / foot is brought forward on the toe, on the count of one, two put your foot on the heel, on the count of one 2nd beat. Put your foot in the starting position, pause for two seconds and the movement can be performed with the other leg and three steps. The character depends on the music.
PIIRILEIKKI the genre of Karelian music is circular songs with a dance rhythm close to polka, mazurka or waltz.
PINAKI (from the Greek pinax "board", "plate") ancient Greek house dance. The dancers made circular movements (circled in place) until they fell to the ground from dizziness.
PINE TREE Russian game round dance in the Kostroma region. The work of people who cultivate the forest is sung and shown.
PIQUE [PIQUE] a light prick with the tips of the fingers of the "working" foot on the floor and lifting the leg to a given height.
PIROUTTE rotation of the performer on one leg en dehors or en dedans, the second leg in the sur le cou de pied position.
PLIE RELEVE [PLIE RELVE] the position of the legs on half-fingers with bent knees.
PODCASTS podikrie is an ancient Greek Spartan household dance, the main element of which was the stamping of feet.
PODGORKA Russian round dance, common in Siberia.
PODIZI podismos, from the Greek podizo "tangle your legs") is an ancient Greek war dance. A chase was depicted: the dancers ran one after the other.
POGO pogo is a modern ballroom dance with jumps, in which conditions are created so that the neighbor stumbles.
POINT extended foot position.
POKHODENKI dialect name of the Russian round dance.
POLACCA (polacca) the same as polonaise.
POLISH ONES arkan, varsovian, vyvas, hajduk, gural, zavirukha, zbuynicki, krakowiak, kryzhachok, mazur, mazurka, oberek, obertas, oryl, otsuvany, polakka, polonaise, polsky, dance with tsyupagami, troyak, hodzony
POLKA Dance of Czech origin, in a fast tempo, bipartite size. It was created around 1830. A polka usually begins with a strong beat, and its rhythm is particularly jerky. The dance quickly spread from the Czech Republic to Europe, and was triumphantly performed in New York ballrooms. B. Smetana introduced this dance to professional music, composing several well-known piano polkas. The polka is also widely used in Smetanys opera The Sold Bride and Schwands opera The Piper by Jaromir Weinberger. Polkas were written by A. Dvorak, Josef Labitsky, I. Strauss and others.
POLKA DONSKOY a polka version danced on the Don.
POLKA GALLOP combined dance (in a number of European countries). It combines two simple sideways gallop steps and one sharply accented polka step. Also known as Esmeralda.
POLKA MAZURKA ballroom dance, in which the musical size 3/4 and the rhythm of the mazurka are combined with the dance movements of the polka. The pace is brisk. Samples of piano works of the same name by A. Rubinstein. She (Kukshina) stayed after everyone else at the ball and at four oclock in the morning danced a Polka mazurka with Sitnikov in the Parisian manner (I. Turgenev. Fathers and children); Under the frisky, leaping, dashing sounds of the mazurka polka, Alexandrov makes his way to the place where Zinochka is sitting (A. Kuprin. Junker).
POLKA ON WALLPAPER (OBEI) BOKI one of the Russian versions of the polka, a pair dance in which they spin first in one direction, then in the other.
POLKA STEP Performed from the first beat. On one jump on the left leg, the right leg is brought forward, from this leg we perform a variable step. Then perform the movement from the other leg. Size 2/4. Movement on the 1st beat of music.
POLKA WITH A HEEL one of the Russian versions of the polka, with tapping heels.
POLO polo is a Spanish Andalusian dance, expressive, with an elastic rhythm, accompanied by the tapping of castanets, clapping of hands and stamping of feet. The music size is three-dimensional. Sample intermission to the fourth act of the opera by J. R. R. Tolkien. Bizet "Carmen". Thin, light, like a flexible stalk, Like a sharp shining stiletto, You froze, flashing a smile, At the click of measured castanets. But here, listening to the sultry strings, Hearing the tambourines booming knock, You go around the bright semicircle in a fiery and slender dance. Then, stretching out your arms into the distance, Holding back your passion with a smile, You, throwing a garland of dresses, Call to fall at your feet. Then, tired, you freeze, Opening the fan at your shoulder, Then again you take off like a storm, Dragging the Purple silk of your clothes. Here, with a gleam of eyes, you fell on your knee easier than a doe, Accepting the roar of applause, Raptures, clicks and flowers (B. Sadovsky. A dancer).
POLONAISE (Polish). Polish national dance in a moderate tempo, in the size of 3/4. Unlike other Polish folk dances where melodies are sung, polonaise has always been an instrumental genre. The origin of the dance is usually attributed to the era when Henry of Valois (the future French king Henry III) was elected to the Polish throne (1573); Polish court ladies formed a procession when presented to the king, which was accompanied by majestic music; such a procession became a tradition and began to open all state ceremonies, and the procession itself developed into a dance. As a result of the close ties between Poland and Saxony (the Saxon Elector Augustus became King of Poland in 1697), polonaise became fashionable in Germany and from there spread throughout Europe. G. F. Handel and J. S. Bach included polonaise in their suites, W. A. Mozart once used this dance in a piano sonata; polonaises can be found in the works of L. van Beethoven, F. Schubert, F. Liszt, K. M. Weber, R. Wagner. But the greatest master of polonaise was, of course, F. Chopin.
POLYNESIAN ru u, timorodia, ole ole, hula
POPLYAS, POPLYASKA style of dancing, features of techniques in dancing.
POPLYASUKHA, POPLYASUSHKA Russian dialect names of dances.
PORDEBRAS (por de bra) "torso bends", bending forward, backward, to the side. The same goes for stretching.
PORRO Colombian dance is a song referring to the African American musical and dance culture. It looks like a Cuban rumba. Musical size 2/4. The rhythm is syncopated.
PORTUGUESE verdeguayo, vila, villan, vira, corridinho, maglian, marrafas, roda, sword dance, fado, farrapeira, folia, fofa, shakota, shula, estaladinho
POTA USSULI Uyghur male sash dance.
POTPOURRI a dance made up of several dances. As he escorted her to her seat, amid a murmur of envy, approval, and greetings, the Spaniard again asked to be "made happy" in the medley, and again received consent. Potpourri and cotillion (which now merge into one) fatal dances for strangers (A. Bestuzhev Marlinsky. The test); And the swineherd ... made a rattle, and when you waved that rattle, it started playing all the waltzes and polkas that exist in the world. "How lovely! the princess exclaimed as she passed by. Thats a potpourri!" (G. H. Andersen. Swineherd).
POUNTE (pointe shoes) "on the toe", "toe touch" of stoics on the left, right forward, sideways or backward on the toe swing in any direction with a return to the SP.
PRANCE [PRICE LIST] movement for the development of foot mobility, consisting of a quick change of position "on the half-legs" and stop.
PREPARATION preparatory movement performed before the start of the exercise.
PRESS POSITION-a hand position in which the arms bent at the elbows touch the front or side of the thighs with the palms of the hands.
PRINT RUN Estampida "noise, dispute") is an ancient dance genre, both folk and high society in Western Europe (XI-XIV centuries, Provence, France). As a rule, a pair dance, but they could dance in threes: a man with two women. Sample medieval musical piece "Tristans Complaint". Young and old villagers in brown or green dresses were standing in a circle in the meadow, singing as they beat time with their feet and clapped their hands… But for a long time I could hear the clear voices of young peasant women ... " Singing cantilenes and dancing prints. It would be better to be engaged in making yarn!" Anna asked what the bishop was dissatisfied with. Ludovicus translated the words and explained that cantilenes were folk songs, and prints were village dances where people stood in a circle. "Like our round dances," said Yaroslavna (A. Ladinsky. Anna Yaroslavna Queen of France).
PROPORTION (it. proportio) second dance, usually mobile, in a pair of dances. Cf. frishka, nachtants.
PULGA DANCE (Estonian. pulga "stick") is an Estonian male mass dance with short sticks in each hand. Moving in a circle with the support of one stick or another. Crossing sticks when jumping (over your head, in front of you, etc.), jumping over sticks.
PUTTING THE FOOT FORWARD ON THE HEEL The movement is performed with the right and left legs alternately. When performing, stick to the exact forward direction. The foot is placed on the heel, strongly bent in the instep so that the toe looks up and slightly to the side, the body is straight, the head is raised. The nature of the music is calm. With a musical size of 2/4, the leg is brought forward for one beat of each bar, and the leg is pulled up to the starting position for two.
PUTTING YOUR FOOT FORWARD ON THE TOE The movement is performed with the right and left legs. The foot is exposed, the toe is stretched out as far as possible, the heel is turned forward. The knee is straight, the head is turned towards the exposed leg. The nature of the music is moderate.
PYRRHIC DANCES Pyrrhic dance (Greek: pyrrhicha, from the name of Pyrrhus, son of Achilles) was an ancient Greek military dance of the Spartans in arms, accompanied by a song. It was combined with fencing techniques. From the Greeks, this dance passed with changes to the Romans. Young men and women, resplendent in the first color of youth, beautiful in appearance, in elegant costumes, with beautiful gestures, moved back and forth, performing the Greek Pyrrhic dance; now they intertwined in a full circle in beautiful dances, now they came together in a winding ribbon, now they joined in a square, then they scattered apart in groups (Apuleius. The Golden Donkey); There were such mass pyrrhics in which only young men danced, and sometimes girls danced together with the young men. Pasyutinskaya street. The magic world of dance).
PYTHAGOREAN DANCES ancient Greek dances. In the pantomime, the dancer conveys all the superiority of the Pythagorean philosophy. The propositions of this philosophy were depicted by means of figures and poses.
PYTHON DANCE a dance of the Weida people, symbolizing the initiation of a young man into a man.
Polish (Polish) the same as polonaise. The dances began in Polish; then a waltz was played (M. Lermontov. Princess Mary); She was walking in Polish (A. Bestuzhev Marlinsky. Test); The ball began in Poland, which was necessary: after such a trip, the ladies had to spread their wings (Moskovskiye Vedomosti newspaper, 1846, No. 30).
QUADRILLE A French dance that originated in the late 18th century and was very popular until the end of the 19th century. It is performed in two or four pairs arranged in a quadrille, facing each other. The quadrille evolved from a rural dance and at first contained five figures with the following French names: Le Pantalon (Trousers, the name of a popular French song), Ete (Summer), La Poule (Chicken, probably the earliest tune that imitates chicken cackling), La Pastourelle (Pastoral) and Finale (Finale): to him, the dance master Trenitz added a sixth figure, which began to bear his name. The quadrille often uses well-known melodies on 2/4 or 6/8; they are often borrowed from operas or operettas.
QUADRILLE POLKA a combined dance that combines elements of these dances. "What are you dancing, Katenka? ""Quadrille polka, Mamma" (a joke).
QUETZAL DANCE ritual dance of the Mexican Indians (Aztecs) descendants of the ancient Mexicans in honor of the god Quetzalcoatl.
QUICKSTEP (engl. "quick step") is an American and English ballroom pair dance. Initially, it was marching-like and was used at official celebrations. A type of fast foxtrot, influenced by Charleston. Music size 4/4. Fun and dynamic character; light jumps, rapid steps and sudden stops, crossing legs, kicking. The band violently started playing quick step (Yukio Mishima. Confession of the Mask).
QUITE CHARMED HETAERA "YALKADE" childrens dance with water bowls (I. Yefremov. Thais of Athens).
RABINAL ACHI dance pantomime on mythological themes of the ancient Mayan Indians, drama ballet about the exploits of a brave warrior and his death.
RACE LILA rasa lila is an ancient Indian dance of an exalted nature. Image of God Krishna with his devoted wife.
RAGTIME see ragtime.
RAIGEN (reigentanz) (from German. Reihe "row, line") is an ancient German round dance, a festive dance depicting labor processes. Accompanied by singing verses. I watch their skittles, violins, shouting and dancing with great disgust: How the people are possessed by a demon, making faces, And this they call fun, dancing, singing! (J. W. Goethe. Faust).
RAP to rap "speak sharply, shout out") is a modern genre of pop music with dance and rhythmic rhymed recitative to the music. Dancers masterfully move their arms and legs.
RASPA La raspa is a Mexican dance, a popular salon dance. A kind of jumping step. It goes back to Haran.
RATA YAKUMA ("devil dances") Ceylon (Sri Lankan) ritual dances. Performed at the sickbed for the purpose of exorcising the devil. The dancers, imitating the devils movements, identify with him, overcome him and lead him away from the patient. Cf. dance of the devil. To rule out the possibility of disease, the spellcasters and the rata yakuma method were once again given (M. Wickramasinghe. The last century).
RAX SHARKEY (Arabic. raqs sharqi "oriental dance") belly dance.
REBITA see massemba.
REDOVA (private). Czech (and generally Slavic) dance of peasant origin in a moderate tempo and three-part size. In the mid-19th century. it became fashionable in Parisian dance halls and from there spread to Europe. One of the variants of redova is performed on 2/4, like a polka. Redova was used by Rimsky Korsakov in the opera ballet Mlada.
REEL see ril.
REFALOSA (Spanish refalosa "slippery") Peruvian creole dance; Chilean headscarf dance.
REIZADO Brazilian folk ritual dance performed during the religious holiday of the Day of the Magi. Around 11 p.m., the music of cavaquinho and guitars, flutes and drums, and voices singing cantingas accompanied by reizado dances were heard.… Shepherdesses carried lanterns, and Micheline walked with a standard… The dancing began. The shepherdesses were singing :" I am a lovely shepherdess, I follow the star; A strange light shines over the cave of Bethlehem... " Suddenly Gabriela kicked off her shoes, rushed forward and snatched the standard from Michelines hands. She spun around, twirling her hips, and her feet, freed from tight shoes, danced (J. Amadou. Gabriela).
RELEASE ascent to the half-fingers.
RELEVE (relve) "lifting", lifting into a toe rack with lowering into the SP in any leg position.
RELEVELENT (relevant) "lift" slowly, smoothly slowly at the count of 1 4 1 8 lifting the leg forward, to the side or back and higher.
RENVERSE sharp bending of the body mainly from the atitude croise pose, accompanied by pas de bouree en tournant.
RESBALOSA Resbalar (Spanish for "glide") is a Latin American Creole dance. Samakueka dance lessons.
RIGODON Dance of the 17th and 18th centuries, originating in French Provence, in a fast tempo and bipartite size, with one-eighth of a bar. Rigaudon as a serious dance appears in Glucks opera Iphigenia in Taurida (1779), and later in other operas; as a comic dance, Rigaudon is present in ballets and suites of the 17th century, including those by J. B. Lully, Andre Camprat and J. F. Rameau. Purcell composed his rigodon as early as the mid-17th century; later rigodon authors included E. Grieg and M. Ravel. In Spain, rigodon is often called a quadrille.
RIKNUSTY (Greek: riknusti) ancient Greek domestic voluptuous dance. Its characteristic components are the flutter of the body and the voluptuous language of the gaze. Cf. erotic dance of girls in L. Delibes ballet " Sylvia". You hold the ringing castanets in your hands, my dear Marridion, and you stretch out your nervous limbs almost naked. How beautiful you are with your arms outstretched in the air, your lower back stretched out, and your breasts covered in red powder! Youre starting. Your feet tread one after the other, tremble and glide softly; your body bends like a scarf… You snap your castanets at once. Arch yourself on your upright legs, bend your loins, move your hips; let your trembling hands attract everyones desires to you and curl them like a veil around your body! With loud shouts, we applaud evenly, whether you smile over your shoulder, shake your hips in convulsions, or tremble, almost prostrate, to the rhythm of your memories (Bilitis. To the sound of castanets).
RILE (rillio) modern ballroom pair dance based on elements of Lithuanian folk dance. Musical size 4/4. Light rhythmic character, with springy movements, with jumps.
ROCK AND ROLL (English rock and roll "rock and roll") paired household dance. Originates from the USA. He became world famous in the 50s of the XX century It is characterized by expressiveness, deliberate carelessness in relation to the partner to the partner, support. Music size 4/4. The tempo is fast. The rhythm is syncopated. It goes back to various traditional genres of Black dance and household music. Samples in American films with the participation of E. Presley ("Blue Hawaii" and others), in the Italian movie "Rock and Roll". Good evening, my city, Enchanted by spring! City of jazz, City of blues, City of rock and roll (song); Ask anyone on Tverskoy Boulevard: Who is the best twist and rock and roll dancer? To this, everyone will answer: Of course, Vasya! Who doesnt know him? Vasya! A hipster from Moscow! (song).
ROGER DE COVERLY (English proper name Sir Roger de Coverly) an old English folk, later ballroom dance, from the XVIII century. How the ballroom was performed last. Six or eight couples were lined up in two rows, the ladies on one side, the gentlemen opposite. They danced like a country dance. The guests danced ancient dances, and the whole company with the bride and groom at the head danced a quadrille and an old English dance "Roger de Coverly" (W. Holt. Melisande).
ROLL DOWN spiral tilt downwards and forward, starting from the head.
ROLL UP reverse movement associated with the gradual unwinding and straightening of the torso to the starting position.
ROMALIS gypsy dance. Everyone knows that gypsies are often invited to their homes, and there they dance "romalis" - this is their dance and often much more (P. Merime. Carmen). Cf. The gypsy dance in the second act of Zh. Bizets "Carmen", a gypsy dance in P. Tchaikovskys opera "The Maid of Orleans".
ROMANESKA (romanesque) ("in the Roman style") an old Italian dance. Musical size 3/4. Synonym for gallardo. Visit Folia and Passamezzo. Sample in A. Glazunovs ballet "Raimonda". Bassdances were replaced by minuet and rigodon (in the XIV century). Light jumps and turns appear in the dances. They are characterized by a fast pace and elegant poses, for example, Romanesque (A. Belyakova. Lets dance).
ROMANIAN AND MOLDOVAN COMPANIES bucuria, bryul, betuta, gaida, dedoy, joc, joc dedoy, itsele, calabreaza, Kelush, kindia, klaka, koasa, moldavenyasca, Oash dance, perenitsa, poama, romynyasca, syrba, sysiyak, kalusharii dances, hora, tsyganyasca
ROMAYKA (romeyka, romeka) (Greek. rhomaikos "Greek") is a folk circular dance among modern Greeks and Turks, accompanied by singing. From a slow start to a fast holo. First the men perform, holding each others hands, then the women in the same manner; the participants follow the leading rhythmic step and sing. Formerly a sacred Greek dance, a type of dance of death; it was danced by Greek women, throwing themselves into the abyss in front of the oppressors of the Turks. However, my Maria romecu dances as beautifully as this dance can only be seen in our country (E. Hoffmann. Confusion).
ROMYNYASKA Romanian folk dance with elements of gypsy dance.
ROND DE JAM BE PAR TERRE circle with outstretched leg, touching the floor with your toes.
ROND DE JAMB EN LAIR (rond de jambe en leer) circle with the foot in the air, stand on the left right to the side, circular movement of the shin out or in.
ROND DEJAMB PARTERRE (rond de jambe par ter) toe circle on the floor toe circle on the floor.
RONDEGNA Spanish Andalusian dance, originally associated with the fandango. The same as Cartagena.
RONDO (from the French ronde "round dance, round dance song") French solo dance of the XVIII century with a constant choral refrain.
ROUND DANCE (from the Greek choros "group dance with a song, round dance" and Slavyansk. "to drive") is an ancient song and dance form among many peoples, which also included elements of games and rituals. The pattern and directions of the dance are varied (circle, semicircle, line, chain, spiral, etc.). The tempo is usually slow or medium. Compare the round song of the mermaids "Gather, Girls, gather, Red ones" in N. Rimsky Korsakovs opera "May Night"; the round song" Ay, in the field of Liponka "in N. Rimsky Korsakovs opera" Snow Maiden", the round dance in R. Gliers ballet"The Bronze Horseman". ...On the lawn, under the slender birches of a nearby grove, there is some kind of folk festival… On the lawn, holding hands, the girls slowly led a round dance around the fire, and young people looked at them, as if choosing their beloved (A. Ladinsky. When Chersonesus fell); Girls, beauties... Take a walk, dear ones! Tighten the song, the cherished song. Lure the young man To our round dance (A. Pushkin. Eugene Onegin); Rich villages bloom on the shore of the cherished waters; A merry round dance (A. Pushkin. The Caucasian captive); What darkness of joy appeared to my eyes! A merry round dance, a sounding pipe... (O. Goldsmith. Abandoned village); The ceiling swayed in the eyes of mindless drunkards. All was conquered by the flesh, all were desiccated by the dance. Sweeps everyone and everything crazy round dance… The soul is inactive during the terrible dance. And rushing round dance, groaning, reckless ...(O. Barbier. Terpsichore); With your eyes fixed on each other, Moving forward In a dance, You lead the yells! yells! your sacred round dance… Smooth are the light movements of Maidens making their way! They are weak-willed, they are careless, their eyes are blissful and quiet! Well? Will they dance forever, or will it consume them? (V. Bryusov. Ory) (ory of the deity of the seasons).
ROVD DE JAM BE EN L AIR [RON DE JAMBE ANLER] circular motion of the lower part of the leg (ankle) with a fixed hip, set aside to a height of 45° or 90°.
RUAN Wu zhuang (Chinese: "crane dance") is a Chinese dance of a gentle and gentle nature.
RUCHENITSA (rychenitsy) is an ancient Bulgarian folk dance performed alone or together "on a pereplyas", as well as by several participants, holding hands. In other cases, a couple dances (a girl and a boy, two girls, two boys), standing in front of each other and not holding hands, almost always with a handkerchief. In the taverns, he was bullied, forced to sing for a glass of wine or dance ruchenitsa. And Andronikov danced, sat down with his recent friends and humiliated himself ... (E. Stanev. Wine).
RUEDA Rueda (Spanish: "wheel, circle, round dance") is the main genre of Spanish music and dance. Wed. kind.
RUMBA Contemporary Cuban dance of African-American origin. The rumba is performed in a quadrilateral size, and the rhythmic pattern changes almost in each measure; in general, syncopation and repetitions are characteristic of the rumba rhythm. In the pubs of Havana, the rumba is often performed to the accompaniment of ensembles using improvised materials – for example, bottles, spoons, pots. The main theme of the rumba is usually eight-bar, it is dominated by the rhythmic beginning, while the text and melody are in the background. The rumba entered American pop music around 1930.
RUMBA FOXTROT combined dance of the first half of the XX century, combining the features of these dances.
RUNNING IN CIRCLES Keep a circle, intervals, posture and raise your head. Perform exactly to the music. Step for 1/8 of a clock cycle.
RUNNING IN PAIRS IN A CIRCLE Keep pairs, keep a circle, and intervals. Perform the movement exactly to the music.
RUSSIAN LYRIC ballroom pair dance, popular in Russia in the 70s of the XX century. The pace is medium, swaying smoothly from side to side.
RUTSCHER (rucher) (German: Rutscher, from rutschen "to glide, to ride") German dance, similar to a gallop.
RUTSKVIETIS (the name is given by the locality) Latvian folk pair group dance. The dancers form various shapes: a circle, two separate circles, a star, a garland. Among the dance movements are a step with a jump, pairwise transitions.
RYKATA Bulgarian mixed circular dance of the Dobrudja region. The name is given by the element of dance-holding the dancers hands. Sometimes men enter the circle of dancers and squat; women, remaining in the circle, perform other movements with their feet. The dance is characterized by swaying the body to the right and left, leg movements with slightly bent knees. The tempo is slow at first, then fast, and then slow again by the end.
Russian Russian folk dance, fun character, fairly fast pace, with squats of men and other figures. Well, then, help me out, Berta Ivanovna! Berta Ivanovna ... took a white handkerchief out of her pocket, took it in her hand, moved her shoulder, touched her breast, blinked her sable eyebrow, and bewildered the whole audience with her wild dance (N. Leskov. "Yes, of course, I dance it by myself; but this dance is not accepted in society" (A. Pisemsky. The rich groom); "Well, niece!" shouted Uncle, waving his hand to Natasha, who tore off a chord. Natasha threw off the handkerchief that had been thrown over her, ran ahead of her uncle, and propping her hands on her hips, made a movement with her shoulders and stood. Where, how, and when did this little countess, brought up by a French emigrant, draw this spirit from the Russian air that she breathed, and whence did she get these techniques that pas de chale should have supplanted long ago? But the spirit and tricks were the very Russian ones that her uncle had expected from her... " Well, Countess, my uncle said with a happy laugh, when he had finished the dance. Ah yes niece! "(L. Tolstoy. War and peace);…And suddenly she got up youngly, straightened her skirt, straightened up, threw up her heavy head, and walked across the kitchen… Tsyganok stopped for a moment and, jumping up, went to sit down around his grandmother, and she floated on the floor noiselessly, as if in air, spreading her arms, raising her eyebrows, looking somewhere in the distance with dark eyes ... Grandmother did not dance, but seemed to be telling something. Here she goes quietly, thinking, swaying, looking around from under her arm… She stopped, suddenly afraid of something… She swayed to the side, giving way to someone, taking someone away with her hand;... and suddenly she was torn from her place, whirled around in a whirlwind, she became all slimmer, taller, and it was impossible to take my eyes off her (M. Gorky. Childhood); " Seryozha! Give us our pole position!" And before Sergey Levashov could touch the strings, she (Lyubka) had already gone "Russian", immediately giving out such a drobot with her heels that it was impossible to look at anything but her feet. So she passed, carrying her head and shoulders smoothly, and came out in front of Seryozha Tyulenin, stamped her foot, and stepped back, giving him a seat. Seryozha ... casually went to Lubka, quietly tapping his ragged ... shoes (A. Fadeev. Molodaya Gvardiya).
Russians ai liuli, balanja, blanja, lady, bull, vertyachka, vesnyanki, party, sparrow, golubets, pigeon, gosling, nine, crane, zainka, snake, kazachok, kamarinskaya, cabbage, karagod, carpet, goat, oblique pole, minion, scoundrel, deer, octopus, eight, base, padegrass, padespagne, pas de trois, pereplyas, transitions, occasion, selection, glade, footcloth, posad, russian, russian lyrical, drake, skandak, skomoroshina, pine, staritsa, sudarushka, dance walk, timonya, tolkusha, topotukha, topotushki, trepak, duck, round dance, gypsy, chetvera, crazy, shestera, shin, yablochko
RÜLLER SPRINGER (German: Rüller is the name of a place in Thuringia, Springer "jumper") German folk dance with jumps, lively and fun. Pairs move in a circle first in one direction, then in the other. Jumps are made on one leg with the other leg raised forward by both partners at the same time. All steps are performed with some stomping. Many other shapes are also executed. In the arena, on the green, a round dance is brightly dancing. The song pours full-ring, weaves longing for love. Ah, there is a lot of melancholy in those sounds, Crying and laughter will connect Higher, higher in the dance of the feet, In a springy way (O. Birbaum. The dance song).
SABOTEUR (sabotiere, from the French sabot "wooden shoe") is a French peasant dance performed in wooden shoes, with their clatter. Sample in the ballet" The Futile Precaution " by P. L. Hertel.He ran up and announced that now" to the same tune " he wanted to dance a dance to sabotiero... The whole dance consisted of some kind of bouncing with twisting in the direction of the legs, soles up (f. Dostoevsky. The Karamazov brothers).
SACRED DANCE an ancient Hebrew dance practiced on solemn holidays and on occasions of public merriment.
SAHURIANA (sahuria, sanjuriana) Peruvian and Chilean creole pair dance. The dancers move around, tapping their heels and toes, raising their headscarves above their heads. It goes back to sarabande and fandango.
SAILORS DANCE synonym for k matlot, jig. Billsmetty Jr., when the other dancers were completely exhausted, performed a sailors dance, putting a plate on his head, and taking a cane in his hands, which caused the boundless delight of the whole society (C. Dickens. Essays by Boz). See matlot, jig.
SAINAYMU (sainaimu) (named after a Uyghur girl) is a Chinese folk dance. Several very beautiful, well-dressed girls are in the center; around them are young men. Sometimes one girl is in the center, and the young man walks around her. The pace is joyful, sometimes very gentle, sometimes very fast. They dance on holidays in the square, in the hall. The dance is characterized by original movements of the neck and shoulders of performers.
SAKUTING sakuting is a Filipino dance that resembles mock fencing with wooden sticks. Usually performed on Christmas Day. Two pairs of men begin the lap dance, moving on them and holding sticks; then, standing up, they hit the stick on the stick.
SALIAN DANCE an ancient Roman dance derived from the Salian dance (see).Let you get a strong bridge, as in your dreams you dream! Famously let the feet knock on it in the Salian dance! (Catullus. My town!..)
SALIEV DANCE the ancient Roman ritual dance of the twelve members of the College of Salii, which they performed in the temple during the sacrifice, during solemn processions through the streets of Rome, wearing a light armor and helmet, with a sword and spear in their hands, with other weapons, to the sound of trumpets to the beat of an ancient song in honor of Mars. Multiple gestures and movements. Gave rise to other dances in honor of the gods. Now lets feast! Free kick now hit the ground! The time has come, my friends, to honor the Idol Lodge in the temple with a generous Salian treat (Horace).
SALSA (Spanish: "sauce") Latin American dance of Cuban origin. It reminds me of clave and mambo. The tempo is fast, but slower than mambo. Dance moves from side to side or back and forth, rotations.
SALSCOTE ancient Bulgarian folk dance of the Thracian region, round dance type (male, female or mixed). Move in a circle counterclockwise. While driving in a circle, stops are made and various movements are performed on the spot. Musical size 2/4. Young guys dance tight, adult men slightly squatting. Girls dance with restraint, married women dance more freely.
SALTARELLO Energetic Italian dance in a fast tempo, three-part, sometimes two-part size. The name comes from saltare – "jump". Saltarello was especially common in the 16th and 17th centuries, but it is found in English and Italian manuscripts as early as the 14th century. In the 16th century, saltarello was performed in tandem with bass dance and passamezzo (after them). Today, saltarello is danced in Italy and Spain in the same way as tarantella.
SALTATION (Lat. saltatio, from salto "to dance, jump") dance among the ancient Romans with pantomime.
SALTATIONES CONVIVALES Latin name of early medieval feasting and table dances in Europe.
SAMAH a Syrian dance, not very fast. Usually performed by girls. Cf. Arabic dance in P. Tchaikovskys ballet "The Nutcracker". And when the dance of the ten slaves was over, they came to Jamila, and surrounded her, and said:: "O lady, we want you to dance in this place and complete our joy..." And Ibrahim saw movements such as he had not seen in all his life, and Jamila showed in her dance a strange method and amazing innovations, so that she made you forget about dancing bubbles in a bowl (1001 nights. The story of Ibrahim and Jamil).
SAMAQUECA Zamacueca is an ancient Creole and Native American pair dance, especially in Chile. It comes from the Spanish pantomime dances of the XV-XVI centuries, goes back to sarabande and fandango. Choreographic content of the dance courtship of a cavalier for a lady. Partners are placed at a certain distance from each other, do not touch. The cavalier holds a handkerchief in his hand, symbolizing wealth; in the end, he passes it to the lady. The pace is agile, moderately fast. The musical size changes (6/8 3/4). The dance is accompanied by singing. Synonyms (in various places in Latin America) are samba, marinera, tondero, chilena.
SAMBA Brazilian dance in bipartite size; in an expanded sense, the word "samba" is applied to all dances of Brazilian origin. There are two different types of samba: rural samba, which is characterized by sharp syncopation, and urban samba in a more smooth rhythm. Samba carioca (carioca-one of the names of a resident of Rio de Janeiro) is a stylized urban dance. Samba was introduced to professional music by E. Vila Lobos and Camargo Guarniero.
SAMBAPALO zambapalo is an old Spanish grotesque dance. "Tell me, my liege ... where are all these dances invented: sarabanda, sambapalo, and especially the famous new escarraman?" In hell; there they have their origin and origin "( M. Cervantes. Salamanca Cave).
SAMBASO Japanese dance depicting the ritual of purification, prayer dance.
SAMBRE zambra (Spanish: "noisy feast of the Moriscos") is a Moorish dance of a lively character (in the past); currently the dance of Spanish gypsies. It is usually performed by women whose ruffled skirts make a noise when circling.
SAMOKOVSKO HORO is a Bulgarian folk dance of the Shop region. It is similar to shopsko horo (see).
SAMS (sema mawlis) Arabic dance of a ritual nature. Performed in mosques. Dervish monks whirl around in white robes, eyes closed and arms outstretched, while the choir chants and ancient musical instruments (flutes, etc.). Gradually, the speed of movement increases and becomes very fast. Gestures and various jumps. Stops are made at the signal. The dance ends with everyone prostrating themselves with their bodies spread out (often fainting from fatigue). Like dervishes, the Revelers whirled around until they fell like tops In a pyrrhic indomitable dance, Which the Levantans are fond of (J. Byron. Don Juan).
SANDOVAL Chilean peasant dance with features of Native American musical and dance traditions.
SANDUNGA Sandunga (Spanish: "fun") is a Mexican Creole dance form, in the rhythm of a waltz. Accompanied by singing, in the Spanish film "The Last Verse".
SANGEO Venezuelan dance of two square meters, with a sharply syncopated rhythm; performed under percussion and other instruments. It belongs to the African-American music and dance culture.
SANGHYANG DADARI classic Indonesian ritual dance in Bali. It symbolizes the confrontation of good and evil. Close to legong (see).
SANJUANITO (it will reduce it. from Spanish. San Juan "Saint John") is an Ecuadorian dance, a variant of huayno (see).
SANTA FE (Spanish: "holy faith") is a Paraguayan Creole dance. Similar to cielito. Three couples dance, forming different figures; in one of them they click their fingers, imitating castanets.
SARABANDE Dance of the 17th and 18th centuries in a slow tempo, three-part size. The name probably comes from the Persian word "sarband" – "ribbon fluttering around the head"; a similar name was also used for songs of a certain genre. According to 20th-century researchers, sarabanda, along with chacona, came to Spain from the American colonies. Initially it was a mischievous, exuberant dance, but then, when it came to France in the early 17th century, sarabande turned into a slow and important dance. In operas, sarabande usually appeared as a symbol of the greatness of Spain. In the suites by Jacques Championnaire de Chambonniere, Johann Jakob Froberger, J. S. Bach and G. F. Handel, the sarabande is placed between the courant and the gigue, creating a tempo contrast.
SARANAM TAYAGUNISH Aleutian dance, based on the legend of how fishermen caught fish, but instead of fish they caught beautiful girls. Music size 4/4. Three boys and three girls (in national costumes) participate.
SARANDEO Spanish erotic dance of an ecstatic nature. Voluptuous hip movements.
SARDANA (Cerdana, Sardagna) Spanish Catalan folk round dance with singing (on the square, on the street). It comes from contrapass. Musical size 2/4, 6/8. The dancers move sideways, making quick shifts of body weight from one leg to the other, holding each others hands and describing movements up and down with closed hands. "I was completely charmed by your dance. What is it?" "Cerdana. What a lovely dance! There are very diverse figures in it, we have not yet completed all the tours " (Lope de Vega. Catalonia has a strange sardana, the gaiety of which, truly folk, is imbued with an inexplicable mystery; a sardana, the accompaniment of which cannot be heard without a keen sense (F. D. Miomander. Dance); Music began to play, and the gypsies began to dance sardagna, an old Catalan dance, twisting in bizarre movements (V. Holt. The scarlet mantle).
SARUGAKU folk performances with dances in Japan. Nice nice! Wonder how good it is! Who can dance so well? These are the priestess miko, oak leaf; Hub at the wheel, "yatikuma" and the dwarf dancer (from the collection of Japanese songs "Ryojin Hise").
SARUGAKU NO NOO japanese dance song. The older girls began to sing. O Tsuru, after straightening the ribbon in her braid and smoothing out the folds of her short kimono, stood up and danced around the rooms to the beat of the song (Shimazuki Toson. Family).
SATOKAGURA Japanese classical dance performed during village temple festivals. Wed. kagura.
SAUCEDSKA Czech folk dance, slow, smooth, waltz-like. It is based on pair spins and solo female spins. Combination of waltz and round dance.
SAUTE classical dance jump from two legs to two legs in I, II, IV and V positions.
SAYAW SA BANGKOK (sayaw sa bangko) filipino dance. They dance on a bench about fifteen centimeters wide.
SCATTERED MARCH Keep a reference point, do not collide. Go to music. Step on ? tact.
SCATTERING AT A WALK Keep a landmark, walk without colliding, exactly to the music.
SCHLEIFER Schleifer (German: Schleifer "grinder") is an old medieval German folk circular dance with a lively, fast tempo. It was popular in the XVIII century. The young man holds the girls right hand in his left hand, clenched into a fist (both hands are lowered). The girl puts her left hand on the young mans right shoulder, and his right hand is under the girls left hand and is raised up from the elbow, her hand is clenched into a fist. Making a side step (he left foot, she right), begin to rotate to the right. But he threw his arm around her and danced with her, her skirts fluttering. He lifted her up on his elbow, and they felt hot in the cramped space, And they were both suffocating (J. W. Goethe. Faust); A shepherd boy danced, Wearing ribbons, a wreath,and a jacket. The people under the lime trees swarmed, And the dance boiled madly, And the violin was filled (ibid.).
SCHOTTISH (scottish dance). Dance of the 19th century, reminiscent of a polka. It comes from the Scottish circular dance, which was famous in Germany. It is sometimes confused with ecocheuse (also a Scottish dance); at first the shottish was 3/4, and after 1800 it was 2/4.
SCHWELMER German folk dance, lyrical in nature, rich in figures.
SCOLD ME (Litovsk. "ears of corn") is a Lithuanian folk mass dance. A cheerful character. Musical size 2/4. The tempo is moderate, quickening. Mowing and harvesting is shown. Most of the dancers are standing in a circle. Among the movements are steps with a jump, a swinging step.
SCOTTISH Scottish" Scottish " is an old Scottish pair dance. Musical size 2/4. The tempo is moderate. It looks like a polka.
SCOTTISH ONES reel, scottish, scotch, scozzese, stretch track, fling, eco-zone
SCOZZESE (it. scozzese "Scottish") the same as eco-sez.
SEASONS OF THE YEAR ancient Greek dance. Spring dance of young men and women in the forest around blooming trees. The dancers portrayed modesty, modesty and carelessness.
SEBUKAN ancient ritual dance of the Indians in Venezuela, etc.
SECCARARA (from it. seccare "to annoy") Italian folk Neapolitan dance, passionate character.
SEDLACKA czech folk pair dance. Circling couples.
SEGUIDILLA A fast-paced, three-step Spanish dance, possibly originating in the province of La Mancha, from where it later spread to other areas of Spain. The name means "continuation" and is related to the fact that the instrumental section of the seguidilla is followed by a section for voice with guitar accompaniment and castanets. Variants of seguidilla are Manchega, Sevillana and murciana. Seguidilla manchega – a lively, fun dance; seguedilla boleras – more measured and restrained; seguidilla gitana ("gypsy", sometimes written-siguiriya) - a slow and sensitive dance, with a variable size (3/4 and 6/8). Seguidilla coplass playful poetic couplets each consist of four short lines, followed by a three – line refrain-estrebillo. The most famous is the seguidilla from Bizets opera Carmen, although this music is not seguidilla in the exact sense of the word.
SEL MOON Papuan dance of New Guinea. It is performed at night in complete darkness, by the light of a single torch and the soft sound of drums. The heads of the dancers are decorated with a ceremonial headdress up to five meters high, their faces are painted with black and white paint. The steady movement of the crowd around the campfire before sunrise.
SEMBA see zemba.
SEMI-SQUAT WITH THE FOOT ON THE HEEL On one squat, on two rise with a half squat and take out the right / left / foot on the heel to the side.
SERIMPY Indonesian classical court dance (Java). Four female dancers perform as legendary princesses; at the climax, they portray a stylized fight with daggers, a bow and arrow. Skillful movements of the back, hips, neck, eyes. Choreographically similar to the bedaya dance (see).
SESSIONS (Spanish seises "six" in plural. 2) see the dance of Our Lady.
SEVILLANA Spanish paired colorful and fun folk dance, a kind of seguidilla, is common in Andalusia. Soft and sensual movements of the arms, hands, and entire body contrast with the clear and concise movements of tightly pressed feet in high heels. A well-known example of Sevillana is the eponymous vocal excerpt from the opera by J. R. R. Tolkien. Massenet "Don Cesar de Bazan" (How nice Seville is, senors! There is eternal spring...). In naughty, fervently cheerful, Seville laughs and jokes in it, Seguidilla sweeps up the hemlines, is full of sun and salt (A. Machado. Seville).
SHAKE shake is a modern English domestic pair dance that gained worldwide popularity in the 60s of the XX century. The pace is fast. Raising and lowering of one or the other leg, cross steps. Wide arm movements are characteristic: raising and lowering one or the other arm or both at once, crossing them in front of you, spreading them out to the sides. Sudden shoulder movements. The dancer moves forward, then steps back. And the horned moon sees our guys dancing a shake To the balalaika (song).
SHAKOTA (chacota) a Portuguese dance popular in the 13th-14th centuries. Later, in other European countries, it developed into a slow chaconu dance (see).
SHALLOW RUNNING The movement is performed on 1/8 bars, easy on the toes, the step is small.
SHALLOW RUNNING IN A CIRCLE Keep your bearings and avoid bumping into each other. Perform exactly to the music.
SHALUPE French dance of the 19th century, especially the waltz, danced with a swing, waddling, like trying to maintain balance on a ship at sea during rolling.
SHANGO ancient Brazilian Negro ritual dance. See and compare jongo.
SHARAMBA (port. charamba) Brazilian folk dance of an erotic nature. The pace is moderate. The melody is repeated many times, alternating with pastoral inserts. Wed. karamba.
SHATKOVI (from shakko "kerchief") Slovak folk dance. The girl holds a kerchief in her hand and, dancing, swings it, flirting with the young man. Then the young man grabs the kerchief from the girl and dances in front of the girl in the same way, waving it. At the end of the dance, the young man puts the kerchief on the floor, both kneel on it, facing each other, and kiss. Tkachenko. Folk dances).
SHEN (chaine, chain) an ancient dance that was danced by holding onto a rope or holding hands.
SHENG see shen.
SHESTERA Russian folk dance, a kind of quadrille. Wed. eight, four. Mass dances are primarily game dances, round dances, and later quadrilles, lanzes, shesters, etc. (V. Pasyutinskaya. The magic world of dance).
SHESTINSKY PRIGORSKY DRMEZH (from Šestine, region of Croatia) Croatian folk mixed dance. The pace is average. Movement in a circle in a clockwise direction (dancers hold each others hands or belts). During the dance, there can be division into pairs and rotation of pairs in place.
SHIARENTANA (chiaranzana) Italian round folk dance, XV-XVI centuries. It could be accompanied by singing. The dancers walked in pairs in a procession.
SHIKA see chika.
SHIMMI spiral, swirling pelvis movement to the right and left,
SHIMMY shimmy "shirt") dance of American origin, ballroom and household, popular in the early XX century. The name is associated with the characteristic movements of the dancers, as if they are trying to shake off their shirts. Similar to a foxtrot. Shimmy, shimmy, shimmy new dance! It was brought to us by an American, and shimmy was invented by a madman, they say!.. Shimmy, shimmy, shimmy its fashionable; Well, if its fashionable, then free Girls are comfortable as you like, you wont surprise anyone (a song from the operetta by I. Kalman "La Bayadere"); To somehow save the situation, Lissie ordered the kapellmeister to play shimmy and danced with both (G. Mann. Sterney); We are kept in dirty mode by the Bawdy Shimmi fashion dance, From the Negro savages Perceived by the entire universe (And. A Northerner. Leanders piano).
SHINGLE an ancient Ukrainian military dance, as a ritual of the military oath of the Zaporozhets. Performed by men (one or several) with sabers in their hands, showing their prowess.
SHISHI MAI (Japanese. shishi mai) see Korean lion.
SHISHI ODORI (shishi odori) japanese deer dance. A dancer wearing a deer mask beats a drum suspended from his waist.
SHLYAPAK (from Czech. lapat "trample") czech dance."Im going to dance," he (the big man) said after his fifth beer, when he saw the couples dancing "shlyapaka" (J. Hasek. The adventures of the brave soldier Schweik).
SHOPSKO HORO Bulgarian folk dance (Shop region) of temperamental character. The dancers raise their legs and lower them to the entire foot, tapping them on the floor. The dance pattern is drawn along different lines.
SHOUTOUT French dance of the mid-19th century, similar to the cancan. Jump elements are brought to a grotesque degree. The basic pa was understood as the desire of a woman to knock the hat off a mans head with her foot.
SHUA LUON TAO Dragon dance is an ancient Chinese folk male dance. Young men, moving one after another, support a long image of a dragon with their hands (the longer the dragon, the more honorable it is). It is performed on a very important holiday, at the opening of a very serious ceremony. The pace is very fast. Cf. A similar dance in R. Gliers ballet "Red Poppy".
SHULA (Portuguese: chula, xula) an old Portuguese dance. Fast and energetic. Accompanied by the singing of a singer or female singer. The musical size is dicotyledonous. Loud banging of male dancers feet on the floor.
SHUMADINKA serbian folk dance. Similar to divna, divna (see).
SHUPLYATTER Schuhplatter is a German Bavarian folk dance that resembles the Landler in shape. This dance is characterized by hand strikes on the hip or on the sole. They dance in wooden shoes.
SICILIANA A dance or musical form based on it, originating in Southern Italy or Sicily. Rhythmically, the Sicilian resembles a giga; size 12/8 or 6/8. The name "siciliana" is more often applied not to dance, but to da capo arias (with reprise). Among the most famous are the Siciliana from J. S. Bachs violin suite in G minor, as well as the aria" Erbarme dich " from his St Matthew Passion.
SIDE GALLOP With the right / left / foot step to the side, the left / right / catches up with her and knocks, the movement is performed easily, fervently. Two gallops for 1 beat. Music size 2/4.
SIDE STEP WITH SPRING One step to the side, two to put your foot: toe to toe, heel to heel - and perform a small spring / squat/. The movement is performed in one direction and in the other.
SIDE STRETCH lateral stretching of the torso, bending the torso to the right or left.
SIGIRIYA (Spanish: siguiriya) a Gypsy version of seguidilla, in a slow tempo, sensitive character. The musical size is variable 3/4 by 6/8.
SIKINNIS (sikinis, sikinnis) (Greek: sikinis, after the creator of the dance of one of the satyrs Bacchus) is an ancient Greek satyr dance, half sedate, half cheerful, which was danced in a satirical drama. He practiced with the Phrygians at the feast of Bacchus, accompanied by singing. In the Latin vocalization of sicinna. With fast movement. These dances were erotic, comic, and grotesque in nature. With acrobatic elements and outright shamelessness. Wed. sicinna.
SING New Zealand womens graceful dance. It is performed with a ball of linen held by a string, making various movements to the beat of the song and rhythmically hitting yourself on the body (which causes a rustling sound). The voices of nature are imitated.
SIRTAKI (Greek syrtaki "touch") Greek folk mass dance; dance of Greek sailors returning from the sea. In the 60s of the XX century was a fashionable ballroom dance. The dancers stand in a row or in a circle, put their hands on each others shoulders and simultaneously move their feet first to one side, then to the other. The musical size is 4/4. The tempo increases from slow to fast. Chrysilla sang and danced sirtaki, hasapiko, everything that was played to her, with a frenzied passion (m. Deon. Wild ponies).
SIRTOS greek dance, a type of round dance. Greek women danced in a round dance (J. Byron. Don Juan).
SISSON OUVERTE jump with flying forward, backward or sideways, when landing, one leg remains open in the air at a given height or in a given position.
SITNO FEMININE Bulgarian folk female dance of the northern regions of Bulgaria. Dancers move in a line from side to side, make movements in place, move back and forth with their backs in the direction of movement. Music size 2/4.
SKA ska, short for the expression shank rock) is a modern dance, a type of rock and roll.
SKANDAK (skandachok) Russian dance, one of the techniques of which is a heel strike to the ground with the toe held up.
SKOCHEK (Polish. skoczek, from skok "jump") is a Polish folk dance consisting of many jumps.
SKOMOROSHINA an ancient and later dance is a representation of Russian buffoons, fast, fun, and debauched in nature. Samples of the dance of buffoons in N. Rimsky Korsakovs operas "The Snow Maiden", "Sadko", P. Tchaikovskys opera "The Enchantress", A. Prokofievs ballets "The Stone Flower", I. Stravinskys "Petrushka". These homeless parasites (buffoons) roamed Russia in bands of 50-100 people, robbing the peasants and amusing the landowners with "Hellenic blasphemies" with dirty dances, songs, and jokes… Buffoons were the best exponents of animal-like frankness, these obscenities, and especially "profanity"... Trachevsky. Russian History); Some of the guests roared at random along with songwriters, others, whose legs were harder than their tongue, danced and made faces like market buffoons ... (M. Zagoskin. Yuri Miloslavsky).
SKOPJE (Greek. skopia ("observation") is an ancient Greek comic dance. The dancer keeps his hands folded in a funnel, as if to better distinguish distant objects.
SKULLCAP DANCE uzbek Ferghana folk dance for women. Imitation of skullcap embroidery movements, then dance with a skullcap on your head. Music size 4/4. An important place is occupied by hand movements, smooth transitions.
SKYT (Ethiopian. "shaking") is an Ethiopian dance. Dancers in national dress long white dresses shake their shoulders. A little slow movement. Mostly women dance, men stand in a circle, in the center of the solo couple or a loner. Hands on hips pose. It is accompanied by a drum, a kind of violin, and other instruments. The dance is a fun character, the pace is average. Different ethnic groups of Ethiopia have a certain specific performance.
SLAMKOVEY Czech and Slovak folk ritual dance at the harvest festival. Performed with a perevyaslom. The corresponding agricultural work is simulated.
SLIDING POPS Arms extended forward, slightly bent at the elbows, gliding movements to clap from top to bottom on the palms of each ? tact./
SLOVAK wallachian games, verbunk, detvianska digitivochka, karichki, medved, na kubi, slamkovei, sprowa, dance with axes, treschak, uklakovana, chapashe, chepov, shatkovi
SLOW same as slow Fox.
SLOW WALTZ ballroom dance. See waltz. Sample in the French movie "Ball". There was a quiet waltz, there was a melodious waltz, And many faces, and many meetings. Roundly gentle were the clouds, Like the outlines of a womans shoulders (V. Hoffman. Summer ball).
SOBAS sobas (Greek: "excited state") was an ancient Greek comic dance that expressed outbursts of joy.
SOMALI COMPANIES pigeon
SORONGA (sorongo, tsoronga) (Spanish: zoronga, zorango) (possibly from the name of a womans hairstyle with ribbons in her hair or from a headdress) is an ancient Spanish dance. Simple steps lead back and forth; the movements are very fast, sometimes clapping your hands in time. He also liked the dance of extremely beautiful girls ... they danced to the Zamora bagpipe, like the best dancers in the world, and their feet were as fast as the modest expression of their faces was (M. Cervantes. Don Quixote).
SORTSIKO (sorsico) (Spanish, Basque. zortcico) Basque national dance, accompanied by singing, with an archaic fret and rhythm. Cf. Basque dance in B. Asafievs ballet "The Flame of Paris"; Basque dances in the Spanish film "The Queen of Chanticleer". The chant sounded sad and strange to me. "If Im not mistaken," I said to him, "you didnt sing a Spanish song, it looks like sorsico... but the words of the song must be Basque" (P. Merime. Carmen).
SOUL (from the English soul "soul") modern dance, derived from Black jazz and African American musical and dance traditions. Associated with the blues.
SOUTENU EN TQURNANT turn on two legs, starting with the retraction of the " working * leg in the fifth position.
SPACE DANCES ancient ritual dances (in Ancient Egypt, etc.) aimed at influencing communication with nature or expressing religious and philosophical ideas. Space dances depicting the movement of celestial bodies are very interesting… Plato believed that the idea of this type of dance belonged to the ancient Egyptians ... Dressed in bright clothes, Egyptian priests led a round dance around the altar and depicted the signs of the Zodiac. At the same time, they first went in a circle from east to west, imitating the movement of the sky, and then from west to east, imitating the course of the planets (G. Kreidlin, M. Krongauz. Semiotics, or the ABC of communication); the dance itself (tandava) had a cosmic significance. He was the embodiment of the cosmic energy of Shiva, the ruler of the world order… It expressed the complex meaning of the combined ideas of space and time (ibid.); I admire you dancing the dance of war. Your dance is eternal, Mother, and your hair is full of wind… On the chest of Shiva dance naked wife (Ramproshad. I admire you...); The yogi dances, tirelessly listening to the goddess, But such a dance is difficult for the Enlightened one. Genesis and nirvana are like two tambourines; Spirit and soul are cymbals in the hands of a ruler. Beat the tambourines, never end with rejoicing in our hearts (Charya Giti); And then, for centuries, did I not see the Dances of dancing priestesses Singing praises to the Crocodile, prostrating themselves before the Ibis? (N. Gumilev. Egypt). See tandava.
SPANISH ONES alegrias, Andalusian tango, Aragonese, arin arin, bolangera, bolero, bulerias, Villan, vito, galliard, granadina, guena, cante flamenco, Cante hondo, caracoles, cartagena, cachucha, corri corri, xacara, malagegna, meneo, morisca, muñeira, Murciana, nizzarda, ole, pavana, paso doble, passacaglia, pericote, polo, spoken dance, rondegna, rueda, sambapalo, sambra, sapallado, zapateado, zapateo, sarabanda, sardana, sarzuela, sevillana, seguidilla, sigiriya, soronga, sortsico, dance of our lady, sword dance, eagle dance, apple dance, tarraga, tirana, tondilla, tumba, fandangillo, fandango, farraka, faruka, flamenco, furioso, haleo, hibao, hondo, hota, gypsy tango, chacona, charrada, chotis, shakonne, escarraman, estrambota
SPARROW (SPARROW) Russian Yuletide round dance game in a circle.
SPRING A light squat in accordance with the calm nature of the music. The movement is performed for a strong fraction of a beat. Size 2/4.
SPRINGDANCE (springar) (from Norwegian. springe ("jump") is a Norwegian peasant dance performed by skipping. The musical size is three-dimensional, the tempo is lively, gradually accelerating towards the end, the dotted rhythm, intricate melismatics.
SPROWE Czech and Slovak ritual dance with a sickle at the Dozhinok festival.
SQUARE four steps on the square: forward to the side back to the side.
SRI LANKAN (CEYLON)LANGUAGES bayla, wannama, kandyan dances, rata yakuma, ruhunu, devils dance, fire dance
ST. VITUS DANCE ancient Roman dance of a ritual nature. Once a year, the women gathered in the Chapel of St. Vitus and danced there day and night until they fell to the ground in a frenzy.
STAR DANCE Egyptian womens dance showing the movement of the stars. See and compare cosmic dances, star dance. Under the tinkling of bells, the starry dance of Egyptian girls with red wreaths in their large-curled hair, in long-folded clothes of the finest linen, slowly and smoothly unfolded. Their formation turned to the right, following the sun, the "stanza", showing the movement of the stars. Breaking the line, faster girls, whose entire outfit consisted of a belt of multicolored glass beads, moved in the "antistrophe" to the left. The white-clad dancers leaned forward, reaching for the floor with outstretched arms, and between them, their dark bodies curved in smooth, serpentine movements, their arms clasped above their heads… Not a single ugly, abrupt, or even unnecessary movement disturbed the charm of these flowing and leaning young bodies (I. Yefremov. Thais of Athens).
STEP BALL CHANGE connecting step consisting of a step to the side or forward and two steps on half-fingers (synonym step pa de hour),
STEP WITH A BOOTSTRAP One step with the right foot, two steps with the left foot, without carrying the weight of the body on it, then a step with the left foot, and a step with the right foot, etc. Pay attention: from which leg the tip is, from that leg the next step is. The movement is performed for 1 beat. Music size 2/4.
STEP WITH A FIT Is. p.: feet in the main stand. Performed at the expense of: and once, and two On and raise the right leg to the side, to the right; at once take a small step from the toe to the entire foot, slightly bending the knee. At the same time, bend the left knee, lift the leg; on and straightening the legs, stand on the toe of the left foot / behind the right/, take the right to the side; on two and repeat the movements.
STEYRER German folk dance, very similar to the lendler.
STILT DANCE ancient Mexican ritual dance.
STOICHIA (from the Greek stoichos "row, line") an ancient Greek comic dance. Its like a Scopian dance, with funny verses added.
STOMPING TRIBUTARIES Perform for every eighth on a full foot, do not raise your leg high.
STRETCH TRACK (Scottish. strathspey, from strath "a wide mountain valley with a river") is a Scottish dance, lively, full of fast movements, but slower than reel (see). It is also understood as a reel for two dancers.
STYRIAN DANCE (Steyerische) (from the name of the region (land) in Austria Styria) is an Austrian ballroom dance. Lendlers version. In the Petrine era, dance became an integral part of Russian everyday life. Fashionable ballroom dances are performed at assemblies, palace festivals, and family celebrations: polonaise, gavotte, minuet, country dance, Styrian, and grosfather (N. Elyash. Russian Terpsichore).
SUBLI (from subsub "hunched, stooped" and Bali "broken") Filipino love dance with bamboo castanets. The men dance the whole dance as if they were lame and bent over; the women dance with their hats on.
SUDARUSHKA Russian folk dance, very smooth, lively. Musical size 2/4. The tempo is moderate. Created on the basis of Russian folk round dances. Moving in pairs in a circle.
SUDMALINIAS (Latvian. "mill") is a Latvian folk dance. Choreographic imitation of a windmill operation.
SUKTINIS (Litovsk. "twirling") is a Lithuanian folk mass dance, of a cheerful nature. Pairs quickly move in a circle one after the other, making rapid turns.
SUNDARI movement of the head, which consists in shifting the cervical vertebrae to the right to the left and back and forth.
SUR LE COU DE PIED (sur le cou de pied) the position of the foot at the ankle (at the narrowest point of the foot), the position of the bent leg on the ankle joint in front or behind.
SURLE COU DE PIED [sur le cou de pied] position of the extended foot of the "working" leg on the ankle of the support leg in front or behind.
SWEDISH ONES полска
SWORD DANCE an old Spanish dance. ... From different directions, participants of numerous dances and, by the way, twenty-four performers of the sword dance began to gather under the tent, all well done to well done, in clothes of fine snow-white linen, in headdresses of good multi-colored silk… Drawing his companions along with him, and performing all sorts of kneeling movements, he [the leader of the dancers] began to spin so deftly that although Don Quixote had seen such dances more than once, he liked this one best. Cervantes. Don Quixote).
SWORD DANCE 1 see the dance of the Virgin.
SWORD DANCE 2 an ancient form of dance, performed by many peoples as a kind of military dance. Performers have cold weapons in their hands (sword, saber, dagger, etc.) and wave them. Cf. dance with sabers in A. Khachaturians ballet "Gayane", dance in the Argentine movie"Poorer than a church Mouse".
SYBARITICS (sybaritic) (from the name of the area) ancient Greek household dance, sluggish, pampered, with voluptuous figures, with the image of intoxication, satiety. Of a rough nature.
SYNCGIL (singkil, singkil) (singkil) Filipino dance (Moro people), similar to tinikling (see). The dancer moves between two pairs of bamboo poles, the tapping of which sets the rhythm of the dance syncopated and all the faster. From the legend of Princess Gandigan, who was far away in the forest during an earthquake caused by the fairies of the forest. Intersecting bamboo poles represent falling trees, which the princess gracefully avoids. Finally, the prince saves her. The dancers skillfully wave fans depicting favorable winds. From now on, to refresh his memory of what he had seen, all he had to do was play the tape, and then the dancers, fragile, graceful, young, would appear again... all these beautiful boys and girls were now gathered in his room, dancing and singing. On the floor sat a boy and a girl, each holding a bamboo stick, who alternated between crossing these sticks and tapping them on the wooden floor, while the dancers swung their lithe bodies and stepped with their bare brown feet into the space between the sticks, then jumped out of it in time, the tempo of the music constantly accelerated, the beats were constantly being played. the pace of the sticks became more frequent, the rhythm of the music merged with the frenzied rhythm of the dancers movements (Bienvenido N. Santos. On the day of the dancers arrival).
SYNCPACE (English cinquepace or cinquepasse "five steps") an old English dance of a lively character, which was enjoyed in the XV-XVI centuries. Looks like a galliard. Courtship, marriage, and remorse are like the Scottish jig, minuet, and synkpesus. The first is hot and stormy, like a jig, and just as fanciful; the wedding is formal and modest, sedate and old-fashioned, like a minuet; well, then comes remorse and begins to stumble with broken feet in the sinkpesa more and more often, until he falls into the grave. Shakespeare. Much ado about Nothing); Scottish giga, mezher, synkpace, moreska, minuet… described by Shakespeare, they form an anthology of choreographic works of England of the XVII century (V. Pasyutinskaya. The magic world of dance).
SYRBA (Romanian. "Serbian") is a Romanian and Moldovan folk mass dance, fast, temperamental in nature. Movement of participants in a circle. Musical size 2/4. The rhythm is syncopated. It exists in several choreographic varieties.
Serbian belaya rada, divna divna, dupe ranke, kolo, koroleva, light round dance, leskovochka chetvorna, nemo, one-sided, dance dodol, troyanats, trumpet, you momo, teskoto, ustay diko, chachak, shumadinka, ersko kolo
TABASARAN nabatkhanum, yavshi mukam, yalgni yabhan
TAGLIAN an old Czech folk dance with a changing rhythm.
TAKEKURABE (takekurabe) Japanese dance with a fan. Various hand movements and small steps. It depicts the love of a girl from a rich family for a poor young man. They run away to get married.
TAMBORITO Tambor "drum" is a Panamanian country dance. It is connected to the Congo (kongo). They dance to drums and shouts. It depicts the dancers pursuit of his partner, who eludes him and tries to seduce him, and other couples also act.
TAMBOURINE (French tambourin, it. tamburino, from the name of the musical instrument of a small drum) an ancient French Provencal dance; fun, lively. Music size 2/2, 2/4. The tempo is fast. Lots of jumps. It was performed accompanied by a flute with a tambourine in his hands. Samples in the works of J. F. Rameau, A. Campra, A. E. Gretry.
TAMBU (from tambo "Latin american negro dance party") brazilian dance. See jongo, candombe.
TAMPET (from the French temp?te "tempest") old French pair dance, lively character. Later, a ballroom dance. Musical size 2/4. A kind of country dance. The specifics of the dance include three handclaps, light jumps on the spot, moving back and forth in a circle. The country dance had many varieties of ecosaise, lancier, tampette, matredour, etc. (Balls and holidays in Russia).
TANDAVA ancient indian ritual dance. The embodiment of the cosmic energy of Shiva, which regulates the world order, is his orgiastic dance "tandava", which Shiva, as Nataraja ("king of dance"), performs together with his wife Devi on the body of asura Apasmara, who was killed by him (Mythological Dictionary). Dance, the wise man told us, A gift captivating to the gods, In the world everywhere between the hearts of Harmony flows here and there. Where the stars are so bright, Just look at your spirit: There, watching the swinging harmony, The god Dances, the goddess with him. Siva dances, Uma with him, an inseparable couple (Kalidasa. Malyavika and Agnimitra).
TANGO Ballroom dance of a free nature and moderate tempo, in a bipartite meter, performed in pairs. Tango is characterized by a constant rhythmic pattern of accompaniment, against which a whimsically syncopated melody unfolds. Argentine tango originated around 1900 in the port taverns and other entertainment venues of Buenos Aires and other settlements located at the mouth of La Plata. The population of these places was made up of people from the West Indies and Negroes from Central America; it follows that the tango was preceded by earlier and more primitive dances of the West Indies, such as Habanera and tangano (from the latter tango may have borrowed its name). Around 1910, the tango became a favorite dance of Argentine high society, and a decade later it gained popularity in Europe and, to a lesser extent, in North America – despite objections from church leaders and moral guardians who considered it an indecent dance. In Europe, the melancholy melodies and unhurried elegance of tango, which came to the Old World in a refined and stylized form, made this dance a favorite of all dance halls; in North America, however, the tango retained its exotic flavor and was performed mainly by professionals. In the 1920s, European composers repeatedly used tango motifs. Spanish (gypsy) tango-a passionate solo flamenco dance-is performed mainly by Spanish Gypsies and, in fact, has little in common with the Argentine tango described above, although it bears the same name.
TANGO PORTENO see creole tango.
TANOK, TANKS (PROBABLY FROM THE WORD DANCE) round dance, game dances among Russians and other Slavs. It is also understood as a sacred maiden dance designed to increase the fertility of the land, which initially men could not attend. Later, there was also a folk dance in the room. The pace changes from slow to fast. During the spring and summer calendar rites, they led round dances (tanks) (A history of Russian Music); Tanok, of course, led Golub, and her voice was heard among all the others. The mottled snake obediently followed her with a cunning pattern, circles and loops between the trees and at least once turned the anti-salt (M. Semenova. Valkyrie).
TAP DANCE dance with frequent fractional tapping of the feet, with beating the rhythm with the foot (in a number of peoples).
TARAKYAMA azerbaijani folk dance. In the female version, the dancer quickly moves in a circle with wide swings of her hands, imitating the flight of a bird. The male version is characterized by more complex movements.
TARANTELLA A very lively dance in the size of 6/8; its name is associated either with the city of Taranto in Southern Italy, or with the tarantula spider, which is found in the area. Legend has it that a person bitten by a tarantula develops a disease ("tarantism") that can only be cured by running amok. Tarantella music, which is much like saltarello, is characterized by solid triol movement. Well-known examples of tarantella in professional music can be found in F.Liszt, F. Chopin, K. M. von Weber, D. Ober; finale of the Italian Symphony by F. Schulz.Mendelssohn is also similar in style to tarantella.
TARGAREHSALUNE estonian round dance for women. Forming a circle, the dancers slowly move against the sun, facing the center of the circle. Shifting from one foot to the other, they lean forward and raise their arms connected behind their bodies.
TASHADA ritual agricultural dance of western Sudan. It is performed by men in bright headdresses, to which birds are attached, holding a snake in their beak.
TASHKOTO (teshkoto kolo) ("heavy kolo") folk male dance of the southern Slavs. The dance starts very slowly, then the tempo speeds up, and the end is very temperamental. One of the performers beats a big drum. The dance forms are different.
TASKIVIN (taskiwin) Moroccan martial dance. Rhythmic shaking of the body, with the foot beating the beat.
TATAR LANGUAGES kyska kui
TEDESCA (it. tedesca "German") is the Italian name of a three-danced dance, close to the Lendler and waltz (XVIII-early XIX centuries).
TEGEREK TEPSEU ("circular dance") an ancient Balkar rapid mass circular dance. The first part is slow, the second is fast. In the center of the circle, a girl and a boy dance; the girl acts like a dove, the boy like a hawk. The girl starts dancing, walking in a circle with slow small steps, imitating wings with her hands (slow, lyrical part). In the future, the young man, following the girl who changes directions, tries to catch her, but she also dodges him.
TEMPS LIE (tan liye) small adagio,1 half squat on the left, 2 right forward on the toe, 3 shift the center of gravity to the right, left back on the toe, 4 and 5.the same goes to the side and back.
TENDAK Indonesian Javanese ballet performed by naked women. Gamelang is like the Sea without beginning, Gamelang is like the wind without end. The slender Javanese woman danced without changing her pale face. Flexible as this vine over there, Spicy as the lips of orchids, Soft as a lotus in the midst of a mist That has just opened up for passion. In the dance of the repeating hand, The Net spins with the movement of the hand, The Gamelanga complains of sounds, In the shaky summer fireflies curl (K. Balmont. Gamelang).
TERBOUSHON (terbushon) pose with the bent leg in front (attetud in front) of the stoic on the left, right forward, shin down to the left.
TERECAME Azerbaijani womens dance, happily animated.
TERM PERIODS (Greek. thermaustris "pincers", "dance in which, jumping, crossed their legs") is an ancient Greek martial dance. Performed with hands bare to the shoulders, holding long swords. The dancers ran, moved, and attacked. In connection with the Pyrrhics (see).
TETARRA (tetarra) Ancient Greek dance in tragedy, a view of Emmelia. Foursome dance; hands and feet rhythmically intertwined.
THAI COMPANIES khon, lakon khol, lakon yantri
THALCHUM ancient Korean folk dance with a mask. I plowed the field and weeded out all the weeds… I purr into my moustache, stomp, and dance my arms. The kids are shouting "chiyoja" in unison! So we have fun while laughing (Shin Himoon. Plowed the field...).
THANK YOU see yandex. Metrica for details.
THE ARGENTINEAN ONES argentine samba, argentine tango, baylecito, gato, graves, creole tango, cuando, malambo, milonga, pericon, cielito, tango, chacarera, escondido
THE BALKAR ISLANDS abezeh, tegerek tepseu, tyuz tepseu
THE BALL big dance party.
THE BALLAD (fr. ballade, from srednevek. lat. ballare "to dance") is a medieval one-voice dance song (originally a round dance lyric) among the Romanesque peoples.
THE BLUES (English blues, abr. from blue devils "melancholy, despondency") originally a solo lyrical song of American Negroes, later a pair ballroom dance of a free composition such as a slow foxtrot. Sample of the blues song by I. Dunaevsky from the film "My Love" (You dont need to call love unexpectedly...); in the opera by J. R. R. Tolkien. Gershwins Porgy and Bess, in the French movie The Ball.
THE BOSS brazilian dance and song rhythm.
THE COMPASS (vyvanets) (Polish. vyrvas ("snatching") is a Polish folk regional dance in which the girl or guy you like is "snatched" out of the circle of dancers.
THE CRANE (crane) Russian and Ukrainian folk dance, of a humorous nature; the movements of a crane are depicted. Music size 2/4 or 4/4. Sample theme in the finale of Tchaikovskys Symphony No. 2. Then again a quick whirl and a merry dance in the form of the Novgorod "bull", the Moscow region "lady", the Little Russian "crane" and the All-Russian "Kamarinskaya" (S. Maksimov. Winged words).
THE DANCE dance, especially folk; in the narrow sense of Russian round dance (dialect). In pearls and emeralds The Beauty was dressed up. The harp of samoguda will ring, The scythe will fly out into the dance (S. Gorodetsky. Matchmakers); Oh, wave, wave your Sleeve! Oh, sparkle, flash Your Eye upward! Swing, walk, start dancing Ognevoy (S. Gorodetsky. Grieving Spring).
THE DEVILS DANCE ancient Sri Lankan (Ceylon) dance. It has the character of a spell or prayer for success in the business. Now it is presented as an exotic sight for tourists. See rata yakuma.
THE DODOL DANCE folk ritual dance of Serbs and other South Slavs. Girls decorated with greenery and flowers (in former times naked), went through the villages and fields in the drought with songs, spells about rain and dancing.
THE DRAKE Russian round dance with two main characters. It is sung to the lyrics of the song "Like a Drake I loved", which tells about the love of a girl for a young man named Drake.
THE DZHIGIT DANCE turkmen male dance. Simulates a clever jump of a horseman on a horse, jumping antelope. Fast running in a circle, jumping on the spot, etc.
THE GUIDE (from the name of an instrument like bagpipes) Macedonian and Romanian dance. The pace varies from slow to moderate. Sample in T. Rogalskis "Three Romanian Symphony Dances".
THE GYPSIES loki Dilya, Romalis, Sigiriya, gypsy girl
THE HYMEN DANCE ancient Greek mating dance. The Hymen dance was performed at marriage celebrations... by girls in light tunics. It consisted of a round dance around the newlyweds or an altar to Hymen, and then the performers were divided into pairs and depicted love, happiness and kisses, and as if they were chasing each other (N. Vashkevich. History of choreography); The round dance was established by the slave girls, the singer is God-like, setting up the Zither, deep in them awakened lust for Sweet songs and harmonious live round dances. The whole house thundered and trembled at the trampling of their feet, and the whole circumference resounded with the sonorous singing of servants and maids (Homer. The Odyssey). Wed. wedding dances.
THE LANCIER QUADRILLE a combination of quadrille and lancier. See lancier.
THE MAZURKA Polish folk dance, as well as a piece in the rhythm of the mazurka, usually 3/4 or 3/8, at a tempo slightly slower than the waltz. Originally a folk dance, the mazurka became a city and court dance in the 18th century, during the reign of King Augustus III. For the mazurkas three-dart rhythm, the emphasis on the second lobe is typical. The mazurka consists of a polonaise-like opening section performed by several couples, and a series of dances with different figures. Especially typical are heel-to-heel strikes and a sharp movement of the soles of the feet (the so-called key) at the end of each figure. Although the Mazurka appears already in the musical literature of the 18th century, only f.Chopin was destined to make it an important genre of professional art. M. I. Glinka, P. I. Tchaikovsky, K. Shimanovsky followed his example. Variants of the mazurka are the Polish dances kuyavyak and oberek.
THE NYMPH ancient Greek dance dedicated to the cult of nymphs. Merry dances of girls depicting nymphs of mountains, forests, flowers, etc.
THE PANAMANIAN ONES tamborito
THE PARAGUAYAN POLKA The Paraguayan Creole pair dance is agile, with a change of tempo and musical size (6/8 3/4). The melody is syncopated, a polyrhythm between voice and accompaniment. This, however, is not a polka, but a mixture of Spanish rhythms.
THE PERICON pericon, periconas "big fan", "simpleton") is an ancient Argentine, Chilean and Uruguayan folk dance. Derived from the European country dance, it combines Spanish and Native American dance and music culture. Performed at celebrations. They dance with white and blue headscarves (the colors of the national flag). Yes, our folklore is a problem. Where can I find it? The Pericon, say experts (M. Benedetti. Thanks for the light).
THE PERUVIAN ONES alcatraz, carnavalito, caruyo, cachua, kena kena, culiahua, mosamala, refalosa, sahuriana, cielo, tondero, huayno, hailli, chatre, chiquita, chilena, yumbo
THE RUNNER Dance element, learned at the expense of: one and, two and Is. p.: feet in the main stance/ heels together, socks apart/. Push off with your left foot and make a small jump forward with your right foot / count one, your left foot /count I/, and your right foot /count two/. After that, start the same movements with the left foot (jump, run, etc.).
THE SCOUNDREL old game round dance in the Arkhangelsk region. A scoundrel is a husband who keeps his wife in harsh conditions.
THE SIREN DANCE ancient Greek ritual dance. It consists of voluptuous poses of women with wreaths of flowers. Their eyes are languid, a smile on their lips. This dance was usually at the end of a large feast. The dancers performed many pantomimes, including the birth of Bacchus and the funny adventures of Silenus. Their postures, their movements, at first rhythmic and moderate, gradually became the feverish excitement of the bacchantes, to the loud applause of the audience, warmed by copious libations. "Well, dancers, gesture, shouted some indefatigable one, shake, jump, imitate the bacchantes when they are completely drunk!" (A. Debet. Corinthian Nights).
THE SNAKE view of the round dance in the Ryazan region and other places of Russia (on Semitskaya week). In the evening, girls and women, holding the hem of their dresses, walk in a snake, sing songs.
THE SORCERERS DANCE papuan ritual dance. Alone In the hollow of the mountain, circling around the fire, He danced like a magical papuan, Pretending to dance someones disputes. He talked with a fire that trembled. Curly-haired, dark, with a glint of black eyes, Wove a long story with his hands, Caught himself, swung his hats. The bird-of-paradises tail, in its luxuriant hair, fluttered like the plume of an invisible battle. Again circling, he continued his lovitva (K. Balmont. The Sorcerers Dance).
THE STYRIAN WALTZ view of a waltz in Austria. Wed. Viennese waltz.
THE SUDANESE ONES mdomdant, tashada, uteiro, hausa
THE ULAD DANCE NAYL dance of Algerian provincial courtesans. So the two uladh niles get up... and start dancing. Their dance is a smooth walk, the rhythm of which is marked by heel strikes, which makes all the rings on their feet ring. At each stroke, the whole body bends as if limping; the arms, raised up and stretched out at eye height, turn slowly with each swing, and the fingers twitch quickly and nervously… So go ulad niall one towards the other. When they reach each other, they hold hands, and their bodies seem to tremble… They touch, arched back, as if in languor… Then, suddenly straightening up and regaining their composure, they separate, and each continues their slow, limping glide to the rows of spectators (G. Maupassant. Algeria province).
THE VORTEX a popular Belarusian dance, a mass pair dance. A snow swirl is drawn in rapid circles.
THE WITCHERS (osmachki) Russian folk dance in Eastern Siberia, in four and eight pairs. Wed. osmerka.
THRACE ancient Greek martial dances of the Thracians.
THRUST a sharp jerk of the chest or pelvis forward, sideways, or backward.
TIAZ (tias) (Greek. thiasos ("assembly, procession in honor of any god") is an ancient Greek dance in honor of Bacchus, a Bacchanalian round dance.
TIBETAN LANGUAGES guorhuang, guoxi, nanma, zhuoxi, xi, cham, bang mo, ehabz bro
TICK HORAN armenian male dance. A strict belligerent character. They dance with a toned body, keeping their head straight, without bending their knees. Slow and fast parts, with jumps. Music size 2/4.
TIGHTROPE DANCING acrobatic dances of different peoples (in Ancient Greece, Rome, Asia) on a horizontally suspended rope, rope, going from antiquity. Tightrope walking, bouncing, turning, standing on a rope upside down, etc. Cf. expression rope dancer, weight dance.
TIHERAS (Spanish: tijeras "scissors, tongs", "musical instrument made of two metal plates") Latin American dance to the above-mentioned instrument. The Tiheras are like broken scissors, and the dansak [dancer], thrusting his fingers through the holes, strikes one blade against the other. Each dancer can draw from this instrument music as soft as the sound of water, and fierce as a flame. It depends on the rhythm, on the orchestra, and most importantly, on the spirit that protects dansak. Dansakis dance alone or compete with each other. And everything is determined by the spirit that sits in the heart or in the head of each of them. Because only the spirits light the fire in the blood when the dansaks perform their dance figures or perform miracles (H. M. Argedas. The last dance of Rasu Nyuti); In the villages of Ayalucho, there was a famous dancing tiheras, which became legendary… He wore clothes made of condor skin, decorated with mirrors (H. M. Argedas. Deep rivers).
TILT angle, a pose in which the torso is tilted to the side or forward from a vertical position, the "working" leg can be opened in the opposite direction by 90° or higher.
TIMONYA Russian Siberian dance song, also a round dance in the Kursk region. The pace is average. Without holding hands, the dancers walk around the orchestra and show their individual skills. We have Timosha in our village, what a good guy he is! He doesnt take a drop of alcohol in his mouth, we dont have another one like that! (from the dance song "Timonya").
TIMORODY Polynesian dance is an erotic song. Songs and dances in Polynesia are usually erotic, in particular a parody dance of girls with very free movements, accompanied by appropriate words (Sh. Letourneau. The evolution of parenting in different human races).
TINIKLING tinikling is a Filipino traditional dance with two bamboo poles that the dancer uses to beat the rhythm. The plastic mimics the habits of the tinikling bird. Skilfully maneuvering between large bamboo sticks, the dancers imitate the agile, fast and graceful movements of these birds: walking in the grass stalks, running along the branches of trees, dodging traps.
TINKOBUE Japanese womens dance during the funeral service.
TIRANA tirana is an old Spanish form of song and dance. The dance part is fast and graceful. Music size 3/8, 6/8. Accompanied by a guitar. The dance is mixed. What can be more charming Than a swarm of my friends, when I resound the meadow with a Spanish song, and under the white awning In the garden Their carefree circle Rushes in a dazed dance (V. Hugo. The captive).
TO A GOAL Balkar dance, first of all understood as a large, crowded round dance with songs; circling first to the right, then to the left. Couples become a big circle. The ritual version is primary. In addition, there are options for wedding, memorial, etc.
TOLKUSHA Russian dance of the round dance type, common in the Leningrad region.
TOMBEE (tombe) "fall" from the toe rack in the fifth position lunge forward (to the side, back) with a sliding movement returning to the IP.
TOMWE [TOMBE] falling, shifting the weight of the body on the open leg forward, sideways or backward on the demi plie,
TONADA Spanish dance, accompanied by a song; Bolivian dance, slow tempo, harmonious, with pauses.
TONDERO Peruvian Creole dance, a variant of samaqua. It goes back to sarabande and fandango. Combined with singing. Playful character, expresses the joy of a lover. Couples in Sunday attire dance barefoot to the accompaniment of guitar, kayon, and audience clapping.
TOPENG (topeng "mask") Indonesian performances (Bali) in which masked actors dance and sing. The pace is slow. A large place is occupied by hand movements. This dance is understood as being able to mediate between sacred forces and the audience. In one of these dance performances, in an energetic style, with wide and strong movements, the predatory king of the Clan is depicted, unrequited in love with the princess bride of the noble Prince Panji.
TOPOTOK Hungarian folk dance of the Transylvanian region. At certain moments, the dancers simultaneously make a stomp, blows, claps on the boot. The dance music is syncopated.
TOPOTUKHA Russian folk dance, with frequent stomping; the tempo is fast. Girls wince, drink to the bottom, Joke, and dance, and sing songs. Hoot merchant sings along and whistles. On the ground foot knocks well done (And. Nikitin).
TOPTUSHKI Russian view of pereplyasa in the Arkhangelsk region. A guy and a girl come out to dance in pairs.
TORDION old dance of the XVI century.
TOTAL NUMBER OF POINTS It. ballo "dance") is a general name for ancient Italian folk game or pantomime dances, later ballroom or stage dances in Italy in the XV-XVIII centuries. It was often characterized by a change of pace and style.
TOUCH side step or step on half-fingers without transferring the weight of the body.
TOUR CHANES [CHENET TOUR] performed on two legs diagonally or in a circle on high half-fingers following one after another half-turns, in modern jazz dance can be performed on a full foot and in demi plie.
TOXICHILLA ancient Mexican religious dance of priests and girls, during which a prisoner was sacrificed.
TRAGIC DANCE ancient Greek dance of an important and majestic character, full of dignity. See Emmelia.
TRAKENAR (French traquenard "horse that does not keep pace") dance with body movements with fast but incorrect steps.
TREPAK Russian single male dance in fast tempo and bipartite size. A well – known example is trepak from Tchaikovskys Nutcracker.
TRESHCHAK Slovak folk pair dance (in the eastern regions). It has various shapes. Music size 2/4. The tempo is fast. It is characterized by paired rotation, turns of the girl, transitions of the girl in front of the young man, blows of the young mans hand on the leg, interceptions of the girl by the young man from one hand to the other.
TREZZA (it. trezza, from treccia "string, bundles") Italian folk dance, mobile, three-length size. Close to couranta and galliard. It comes from Venice and is associated with the ancient round dance of cod. Performed by a group of dancers.
TRIBUTARIES The musical size is 2/4. Pritop alternately on each ? tact. Or the 1st bar – two inflows, the 2nd bar-a pause.
TRIKORE tricoret, trihori are probably variant names for the trikote dance.
TRIKOTE (fr. tricotets, from tricoter "to hit, to beat", "to walk quickly, to braid your legs") an old French fun dance. Samples in the works of F. Couperin and J. B. Rameau....If, little girl, you are sure that forever these roses of blush, light step, swift dance, flexible body, shine of beauty ... oh, how far from the truth you are! (R. Keno. If you think so).
TRIPLE CLAPS they take 2 clock cycles. Music size 2/4. On the time of the first bar, clap, on two bars, on the time of the second bar, clap, on two pauses.
TRIPLE TRIBUTARIES They take 2 clock cycles. On time of the 1st measure – right foot tap, on two left foot tap. At the time of the 1st beat – right foot tap. Pause for two seconds. Triple steps can be performed on the 1st beat (eighth) and 1/8-pause.
TRIPUDIY (Latin tripudium, to tres "three" and pes "foot") a three-danced dance in ancient Rome, especially the ritually cultic sash of the Salii. This word also refers to the dances of other ancient peoples.
TRIUNFO (Spanish: "triumph") Latin American Creole dance. Dance of the winners. Performed by men in red shirts and caps. It arose in connection with the struggle of Argentina for independence. Samakueka dance lessons.
TROYAK Polish folk dance performed in threes. There is one boy and two girls in each group. In the first, slow part, the boys lead their girls in a circle. In the second, fast part, the girls spin quickly, and the boys clap their hands, and then alternately spin with each partner separately, while the other runs around them.
TROYANAC Serbian folk dance, similar to chacak (see).
TRYNSKO HORO Bulgarian folk male dance, energetic character. Performers hold on to each others belts (belts). Keeping the line, move forward, backward, from side to side. Shouts are made as the dance progresses. There are no hand movements. The dance phrase often doesnt match the music phrase. At first, the dance is not fast, then it speeds up.
TRZASAK (from the Czech t??sti "shake") Czech folk pair or pair mass dance. The pace is average. Pairs go in a circle, in each pair rotation of both partners, jumps; facing each other. The hands are joined and crossed in front of the partners, at other times the right hands are joined at the elbows, and the left palms at the waist.
TSIKIDOLA dance form on the island of Madagascar and islands in the Indian Ocean. Approach your wives, and with your hands Entwined together in a light circle, Drawl out, with the Kings quiet words, cheer your ears! How your singing is clear to the heart, How it tires the spirit to sing! How pleasant it is, wives, to look at your woven circle from afar! Yes, quiet, slow and passionate Body movements will be again, But everywhere with feelings they show bliss and love! (E. Guys. Madagascar Song).
TSYGANYASKAEDIT Romanian folk dance with elements of gypsy dance.
TULUKYZAH Aleutian dance (Medny Island). It is similar to a quadrille, with the addition of national dance elements.
TUN ancient holiday dance of the Guatemalan Indian tribe Quiche. Performed in jaguar and puma masks.
TURAJI Azerbaijani womens dance, slow and lyrical.
TURDION (tordion) old (since the XV century) light, mobile dance in Europe, from the group of bass dance (see). Three-dimensional size. It is similar to other ancient dances of couranta, galliard, etc.
TURKISH MARCH a popular ballroom dance of American origin in the early 20th century. Partners stand face to face, the cavalier holds the lady by the waist. Side steps first with one foot, then with the other. Kicks, progress with unexpected stops. Rocking back and forth, clapping your hands. Wed. The orchestra struck up "Turkish Patrol", and to it the odalisques danced an amazing dance, wagging their hips and flanks, rolling their bellies, looking around the audience with voluptuous oriental looks (A. A.). Kuprin. Junker).
TURKMEN COMPANIES kusht depme, natyilar, jig dance
TURTLEDOVE Ukrainian folk dance. A good person not only turned around, hit on turtledoves or hopaks, but even had nowhere to lie down (N. Gogol. Evenings on a farm near Dikanka); She (Katerina) was already quite weak and lazily stamped her feet in one place, thinking that she was dancing a turtledove (ibid.).
TWO-STEP (engl. two "two" and step "step") American, and then international ballroom pair dance (early XX century). The character of a fast march. A closed pair of dancers makes energetic steps and light bounces, their movements are synchronized. Basic movements: two quick steps for the first part of the bar and one slow step for the second part of the bar. Musical size 2/4. Sample dance with verses from B. Alexandrovs operetta "Wedding in Malinovka" ("Get ready, Frau Madame: Ill give you a dance lesson...").
TYROL (literally "Tyrolean") Tyrolean (south of Germany) dance song, three-length size, lively character. Frolic and fun of women. They dance in festive outfits decorated with ribbons. Lendlers dance and waltz. Singing with yodeling. Sample in the Austrian film "Golden Symphony". Fanny (Elsler) dances cachucha and bolero, tarantella and Cracowiak, Russian dance and Tyrolean dance (N. Elyash. Russian Terpsichore).
TYUZ TEPSEU ("invitation dance, dating") Balkar pair lyrical dance. It can be circular, paired, or individual. Had and has a ritually magical character. It is performed in variants for a variety of cases. Well-designed specific symbolism of dance figures and movements. In one version, the dance is performed with a full bowl mounted on the head.
TZU Wu Chinese dance of traditional linear composition. I begin to sing and the moon sways to the beat, I dance and dance my shadow, silent and long (Li Bo. I drink alone under the moon).
Tajik bazmi oro, zang, nagorabazm, dish dance, stick dance, sickle dance, saber dance, usma, ufar, hym soap
Turkish bar, zeybek, turkish march, halay, heron
UAINO Huaino (Spanish: Huaino) is a Peruvian and Bolivian Indian collective dance with singing, of Inca (Old Peruvian) origin. A round dance of twenty or thirty people holding hands, with several couples dancing inside. In the future, the leader can lead the dancers as a chain, and everyone repeats his movements. The dance figures set by the presenter can be very diverse. Performed to the accompaniment of a drum and antara, with the musicians dancing. Wed. Indian dances in the Argentine movie "There in the North". Wed. winew. Any of the visitors could ask to play their favorite uaino (H. M. Argedas. Deep rivers); On Saturdays and Sundays ... harp and violin were played, visitors danced huayno and marinera (ibid.).
UFAR (ufor) Tajik folk dance, solo or mass. Music size 6/8 (rarely 7/8). Often performed with singing. In the square with a bowl, touching your favorite curls, In the midst of dancing to taste the juice of sweet vines I crave (Rumi, Open your face (kasida)), A girl of indescribable beauty danced to the sounds of the most beautiful orchestra. The flame of a candle, or perhaps the flame of the hearts that burned around it! it licked her thin bedspread. Wanting to calm her fright and rage, one of the admirers exclaimed: "Calm down, most beautiful Flame destroyed only your veil. Please look at me: Im burning up! " (Saadi. Gulistan).
UJ Kabardian, Karachay and Circassian folk pair dance. Musical size 2/4 or 6/8. See uzhdpuh, uzhd hasht. The right side of the Abkhazian Adygs was recognized as honorable… During the round dance of UJ, the girls were placed to the right of their partner (V. Bolov, A. Kovalenko. Etiquette and customs of peoples).
UJ HASHT pair dance of the peoples of the Caucasus, mobile and dynamic. A type of uja (see).
UJ POOH pair dance of the peoples of the Caucasus, majestic and smooth. A type of uja (see).
UKLAKOVANA Slovak folk pair dance with many rotations and body swings. Among the elements of rotation is a girl who is held by a young man with her right hand raised by the left and twists it. Curious Slovakian women with their hair arranged in a "frog" style, in pretty caps with lace squares...slender girls with scarlet ribbons in braids whitish as tow looked in the windows (of the tavern), and at the sound of especially fervent songs they danced right in the street (K. K.). Mixat. St. Peters umbrella).
UKRAINIAN COMPANIES vesnyanki, shingle, hopak, turtledove, crane, kazachok, kolomyika
UMBIGADA Umbigo (Portuguese for "navel") is a Brazilian dance. The peculiarity is that two dancers face their bellies, touching their navels.
UMBRELLA DANCE Indonesian popular household dance (Sumatra Island). Choreographic image of a love scene.
UNDAYE Mongolian folk dance, full of agility and prowess.
URUGUAYAN COMPANIES gato, malambo, pericon, cielito
USAINEL Lezgian slow smooth dance.
USMA tajik womens dance. The dancer depicts a girl admiring her beauty in the mirror, drawing up her eyebrows, braiding braids, etc.
UTEIRO a Sudanese dance (in the north of the country) that requires skill and strength when moving the torso. cf. hausa.
UYGHUR monkey dance, pota ussuli, sama ussuli, fire dance
UZANDARA an ancient Armenian (as well as Azerbaijani) folk dance of a calm and elegant nature. Music size 6/8.Tempo is slow or medium. All participants dance alone, standing still or moving slowly in smooth steps in one direction or another with one foot against the other. A large place is occupied by frequent and wide movements of the hands raised at the level of the chest or head. Wed. Armenian dances in A. Khachaturians ballet "Gayane".
UZBEK COMPANIES lapar, clangs, pahra, skullcap dance, yalla
UZI (from the name of a musical instrument such as a drum) Burmese mass dance performed at celebrations.
VANNAMA dance (dance style), common in Sri Lanka. The teacher dozed off. The music woke him up. The harmonium was playing, the drums were booming, and the bells were breaking. "I will go and see a dancer dancing in the circle of worshippers," Murti decided... (T. C. Varadarajan. The gift of Ganesha).
VARSOVYAN varsovienne" Varshavskaya " is a parlor pair dance popular in the 19th century. Middle between polka and mazurka, as well as a kind of waltz. Compare polka mazurka.
VARU VARU modern ballroom dance. Simple steps and movements, jumping on the spot, partners clapping their hands with each other. Musical size 2/4. The tempo is moderate.
VATUTSI modern ballroom dance, fast and fun. A type of halli gully. Pairs of partners stand side by side, arms bent at the elbows and held back. Cross step with the right foot to the left, return to the previous position, cross step with the left foot to the right, return to the previous position, etc.
VENEZUELAN COMPANIES bamba, mare mare, merengue, sangeo, cebucan, cielito, tura, horopo
VERBUNK old Slovak folk male dance. The dance depicts the training of young recruits. The musical size is 4/4 and 2/4. It has different construction forms. It can take the form of a parody. See verbunkosh.
VERBUNKOSH (verbunk) (from recruit, "recruitment dance") Hungarian folk male dance of the XIX century. The recruitment of soldiers in the villages was accompanied by the performance of songs and dances by musicians. Dance improvisation and rigor are typical. Samples in Hungarian rhapsodies by F. Liszt.
VERDEGUAYO (portug. verdegaio is an old Portuguese folk popular dance. "We await your orders, Senor Baron." "Verdeguayo!" yelled the Baron (B. da Fonseca. The Baron).
VERTYACHKA the name of a waltz in Russian dialects, as well as other dances.
VESNYANKI Russian and Ukrainian spring womens round dance, songs in such a round dance. Ancient ritual origin. The girls movements are slow and smooth. Vesnyanki sing, walk in circles all night from dawn to dawn They have only one concern (A. Ostrovsky. Snegurochka).
VIENNESE WALTZ Wiener Walzer is an Austrian fast-paced waltz. More refined, with shorter strides and smoother turns. Sample "Wild roses" by F. Legard. I will dance with you in Vienna in the carnival dress of the river, in dominoes of water and shadow. How dark are my reeds!.. And then, as a parting tribute, I will leave the echo of breath in photographs and weather vanes, put my kisses in front of the door and entrust the waltz tapes, violin and ashes to the waves of your footsteps. Garcia Lorca. Little Viennese Waltz).
VIETNAMESE hunting dance, parting dance
VILAN (portug. vil?o) Portuguese folk dance, popular in the 13th-14th centuries, which existed until the 17th century. Rustic character. Wed. viljan.
VILANELLA villanella (it. villanella "village song", from villa "village") is an Italian peasant dance, popular in the XV-XVI centuries in Northern Italy. Fun and sensual character, with the introduction of comic figures. It was performed to the accompaniment of a lute.
VILJAN (villanesca) (from the Spanish villano "villager") is an old Spanish folk dance and song. None of the dancers can compare with our Hill, Whether when we dance the chaconne, Or Villanus to the tambourine (Lope de Vega. Redondilla).
VITO (ALE vito) (Spanish: "fast") an ancient common Spanish form of song and dance: fast Andalusian dance and song. A large place is occupied by the sound of heels. I sing and dance the haleo That they dance in Jerez, vito, as well as ole and bolero. Garcia Lorca. Mariana Pineda); El vito is the stamping of feet on the spot, beginning with the lazy carelessness of a bored woman getting annoyed and ending with the frenzy of a woman in a frenzy of rage (A. Dumas the father).
VOLADOR (dance of the Eagle) (Spanish volador "the flyer") ritual dance game among the Indians of Mexico and other countries. Participants in costumes resembling bird plumage. Being on a rotating platform (tied to it with long belts), they jump from it and fly in a circle to the music of a flute. This is due to the cult of the sun.
VOLOZHI DANCE (by the name of the area) ancient Greek dance. This is an ancient dance, in which the step is always the same and dissimilar to any other step of the ancient Greek dances, it is not unpleasant when well controlled (Sh. A companion. Dance dictionary).
VOLTA (la volt) (French: volte"turn") ancient ballroom dance of the XIV-XVII centuries. It probably originated in Italy or Provence. Performed in pairs or by a large number of participants. The cavalier spins his partner several times, and then helps her make a big jump. The pace is fast, the size is three-dimensional. A kind of galliard. One of the predecessors of the waltz. ...I dont know how to sing, dance la volt, talk sweetly, I dont know how to play fancy games. Shakespeare. Troilus and Cressida); They also danced the volta, with turns resembling a waltz. Pasyutinskaya street. The magic world of dance).
VORTANZ (GERMAN: VORTANZ) first in a couple of dances, usually slow.
VRITA (brita) (vrita, brita) Indian Bengali dance of gratitude. It is performed by women who have suffered from infertility and got rid of it, as well as other persons who have recovered from a contagious disease (smallpox, etc.).
VRTAK (Czech. verchenie ) Czech folk dance, paired mass. It is characterized by a pair rotation in a circle, performed on jumps.
VYANDRA Estonian popular folk (later ballroom) pair dance. Choreographically simple. Music size 3/4. Moderate tempo.
WALKING IN CIRCLES Keep a circle, intervals, posture and raise your head. Perform exactly to the music. A step ? tact.
WALKING IN PAIRS IN A CIRCLE Keep a pair, keep a circle, intervals, and walk exactly to the music. Step – ? tact.
WALLACHIAN DANCE (by the name of the area) Greek dance. The dancers movements resemble the actions of winemakers trampling grapes. They hold hands, but are at a distance from each other, spin (semicircle to the right, then semicircle to the left) and quickly stamp their feet, sometimes separating their hands and beating them to the beat.
WALLACHIAN GAMES slovak folk dance game. In it, dance moves (jumping with sticks, squatting) are combined with acrobatic techniques (somersaults).
WALTZ It has its origins in the old folk dances of Austria and Southern Germany. The name comes from the German word walzen – "to spin", "to spin". The closest predecessors of the waltz are the fast "German dance" and the slow landler waltzes, which became fashionable around 1800. German dances can be found at Y.Haydn, W. A. Mozart and L. van Beethoven. The first mention of the waltz itself dates back to about 1770. At first, this dance caused strong resistance from both the guardians of morality and dance masters. For some time, the waltz existed within the framework of English country dance (country dance), but soon gained independence and came out on top among the ballroom dances popular in Vienna, Paris, and New York. The classics of the waltz were Josef Lanner (1801-1843), who introduced the cyclic form of the waltz, consisting of an introduction, several sections and a coda, as well as I. Strauss the father and I. Strauss the son. In the work of the latter, the waltz reached the pinnacle of its development (The Beautiful Blue Danube, Southern Roses, Tales of the Viennese Forest, etc.). Among other waltz masters are Emil Waldteufel, F. Legard, Oskar Strauss and Robert Stolz. There is a significant difference between a waltz as dance music and a waltz as a concert piece – in the latter case, the waltz can be freer in tempo and more complex in form. G. Berlioz and P. I. Tchaikovsky introduced the waltz into their symphonic cycles; F. Schubert, F. Chopin, J. Brahms and other composers created excellent cycles of instrumental waltzes. At the beginning of the waltz era, there was an Invitation to dance by K. M. von Weber (1819); at the end of the era, R. Strausss waltz – laced opera The Cavalier of the Rose (1911) and the symphonic poem Waltz by M. M. Verdi.Ravel (1920). A true Viennese waltz is characterized not only by the usual waltz rhythmic pattern (a bass for the first part of each measure, followed by two lighter, like echoes, parts), but also by a difficult-to-describe rhythmic shift resulting from the second quarter being played to the accompaniment a little earlier than it should be. Slow waltzes of the Boston type or hesitation waltzes (i.e. with a delay, pause), characterized by a less clear rhythmic pattern and more complex accompaniment, became widespread in America around 1915, and after the First World War also in Germany; here they were often used in professional works of pseudo-jazz style.
WALTZ BOSTON a kind of slow waltz. See Boston. Sample in R. Gliers ballet "Red Poppy", in the English film "Waterloo Bridge".
WALTZ GALLOP the two-step waltz, which at the end of the 19th century replaced the traditional three-step Viennese waltz in European countries. Sample in the French movie "Ball".
WALTZ GAVOTTE dance of the early XX century, is a combination of different dances. A slow gavotte replaces a fast waltz. Soft smooth transitions. The first, smaller part is a gavotte with a size of 4/4, the second part, larger in duration and faster, is a waltz.
WALTZ IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION waltz with a change of waltzing direction. The cavalier takes the first three waltz steps one, in ordinary waltz turns, i.e. to the right, but these turns should be considered only as a preparatory movement, as if an introduction. Then he immediately begins the next 6 steps of the waltz with his left foot, making a turn in the opposite direction, i.e. to the left, while the lady, starting with her right foot, contributes to the completion of this reverse turn (A. Zorn).
WALTZ RUSSIAN a type of waltz performed in Russian salons in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
WALTZ STEP /GYMNASTIC/ Is. p.: toe rack. Performed on the count of: One, two, three of Them and a small sliding. One step with the right foot forward from the toe to the entire foot, slightly bending the knee / gently springing/ ; two, three two small steps forward with the left, then the right foot on the toes /legs straight/.
WALTZ STEP/ DANCE STEP/ Is. p.: toe rack. It is executed like the previous step, but quickly when running.
WAPANGO huapango is a Mexican version of the fandango, a lively dance with falsetto singing. A combination of several musical sizes 2/4, 3/4, 6/8, which creates a complex intersecting rhythm. They are performed on a wooden platform, which makes the steps more sonorous.
WAYANG wayang is the most common form of Javanese (Indonesian) dance drama. Actor-dancer performs without a mask. Rigid torso, jerky movements of the knees and elbows, slow movements.
WAYANG ORANG Indonesian classical dramatic dance in Java. Episodes from the lives of royal dynasties were played out.
WAYANG TOPENG (wayang topeng) indonesian masked dance on o. Java, dramatic content (about the Prince of Panj). Performed by three dancers. Wed. topeng.
WCOMOTOR circular motion of the arms bent at the elbows along the torso.
WEDDING DANCE an ancient Roman dance that depicted a debauched picture of the actions most hidden in marriage.
WEDDING DANCES view of ancient Greek household dances. A group of young men carried branches of myrtle in their hands; a group of girls were decorated with wreaths of roses. With gestures they expressed the pleasure of the wedding. Cf. dance of the Hymen. Young brides are led out of the halls by bright torches And escorted through the city. Theres a wedding hymn being played. Young men dance in circles, and Flutes and zithers sound softly in the midst of the dance. And the women in front of the houses, Standing in the doorways at the threshold, look and marvel at the dance (Homer. The Iliad).
WEINANG chinese drama performances with dancing.
WEN chinese civil dance. There are guests on horseback and in wheelchairs at the red gate. By candlelight, songs and dances in the house (Bo Ju yi Songs and dances).
WESTERN WALTZ (English Western waltz) waltz in the American version. The hostess herself ... played the piano, and to the cheap, rattling music of a Western waltz, naked Zanzibar girls danced furiously in the light of kerosene lamps (R. Kipling. The light that went out). Wed. msunyunso.
WHEELBARROW (tachok) a Filipino dance for a special occasion. Dancing girls represent birds flying in the air.
WILLOTTA Italian song and dance genre (song of a dance character) of the XV-XVI centuries, of folk origin. Closely related to vilanella. It was especially popular in Venice and Naples.
WINEW mass dance songs of the Incas (Quechua) in ancient Peru. The dances were mostly magical and ritual in nature, although some of them were associated with war and agricultural work. Often they danced just for fun (M. Galich. History of pre-Columbian civilizations).
WITCHCRAFT DANCE African dance for magical purposes (in Nigeria and other countries). Witchcraft then I danced a dance, under the melodious roar of the drums, you closed your eyes, and laughed, and laughed, and laughed… You laughed at the dance and laughed at the heart (G. Okara. You laughed, and laughed, and laughed); The Angolan people have a dance that they regard as sacred and that introduces the dancer to a divine enthusiasm, during which he predicts the future and makes a prediction (f. Noel. Mythological dictionary). Wed. ekongo, vashavi, kamlaniya.
WITTS DANCE See the dance of St. John the Baptist. Witt.
WUXINSHA DANCE Latvian ritual dance. The solar symbolism is probably associated with the dance of Wuxin or his horse, which is comparable to the motif of the dance ("playing") of the sun. (Usinsh is the patron saint of horses in Latvian mythology) (Mythological Dictionary).
XACARA (from Arabic. schaqara "to praise") is a Spanish romance with dancing to the sound of his music. That same night there was a dance at the door of the inn… Asturiano was playing the guitar, and three other female servants from the nearest inn danced in addition to two Galician girls and Arguello… Lope played the guitar with such skill that, by all accounts, it spoke in a human voice. The maids, most of all Arguello, begged him to sing a song. Lope replied that he would sing, but only if they danced as they do in the theater ... Cervantes. A high-born scullery maid).
XI (xie) tibetan dance. Men and women, standing in two rows, dance face to face. It can be circular or random (without plotting). Participants singing, graceful movements, long slow steps, waving their sleeves when turning.
XIANCHI Salty pond is an ancient Chinese ritual dance. Xiangchi is also the name of a celestial deity, a star... as well as a dance that was performed at the Zhou court on the summer solstice on a square altar in the middle of a pond (Mythological Dictionary).
XIPHISM (from the Greek. xiphos ("sword") is an ancient Greek war dance. The dancers were armed with swords and pikes, and skillfully imitated the semblance of a fierce battle.
Y Y chinese war dance. Performed with swords in hand. Coordinated movement of a group of dancers back and forth. Sample in R. Gliers ballet "Red Poppy".
YABLOCHKO dance of Russian sailors (with ditties), popular in the early XX century. The musical size is dicotyledonous. The tempo is medium, with syncopations. Sample in R. Gliers ballet "Red Poppy".
YAKAN see yakan.
YAKUT REGIONS kamlanie, oswaukee
YALGNI YALHAN Tabasaran jumping dance.
YALKADE ancient Greek childrens dance.
YALY ancient and now widespread Azerbaijani rural festive round dance in the open air. Of ritual origin. Both men and women participate. A cheerful dance, often of a courageously heroic nature. The dancers form a semicircle, connecting with each other with their little fingers. They follow the actions of yalla bashi (the leader of the round dance) and exactly repeat his movements. Wed. Azerbaijani dances in U. Hajibeyovs opera "Ker ogly".
YAM BU (yambu) (yambu) a type of rumba of a slow character. They dance in pairs, mostly older people.
YAMAYA LABAYALG (from the name of the area) Estonian pair dance of a calm nature. Music size 2/4. The tempo is slow. Smooth movement of pairs from side to side, tapping.
YAMBAMBO Latin American dance related to the African-American culture. Yambambo! yambamba! Under the hand of a negro (congo solongo!) The drum boomed like a madman (congo solongo!). The Songo negro dances (yambambo yambambe) On one leg (N. Guillen. Black chant).
YAMBIK (IAMBIC DANCE) an ancient Greek sacred dance performed by the priestesses of Mars in his honor. Slow and solemn in nature.
YANDEX. LETKA: (Finnish. letka jenkka is a Finnish dance that became a ballroom dance in the second half of the 20th century. Fun and relaxed character. Dancers are usually arranged in chains and move in leaps. Standing behind each other in a column or closed circle, the person standing behind puts his hands on the shoulders or waist of the person in front. Bouncing first on one leg, then on the other, jumping on both legs with the feet together, first forward, then back, then three jumps forward. There can be jumps to the right and left. Music size 4/4. Times! Two! Put on your shoes! Shame on you for sleeping! An old, sweet, funny girl invites Us to dance! (song).
YANGE (YANGE) (YANGGE) ancient Chinese folk dances with singing, largely preserved today.
YANKA (from his own personal name) Belarusian folk (later ballroom) pair dance, similar to a polka. Musical size 2/4. Tempo is moderately fast. Cheerful, fervent character, clear. Pairs of dancers stand in a circle, holding hands; move in a circle, separate hands and put their palms on the waist; tapping with the foot, whirling pairs and other figures.
YAVSHI MUKAM ("SILENT MELODY") Tabasaran dance of old people.
YOU, MOMO Serbian folk dance, similar to divna, divna (see).
YOUR CHOICE solo dance of sorcerers in East Africa. ... Dr. Ferguson, accompanied by music and religious dancing, slowly moved to the "temba" of the Sultans palace... (J. Correct. Five weeks in a hot-air balloon); On the day when He (the Creator) lost His patience, The terrible Ocean tore You away, O Africa, from the breast of the Eastern Land... You, hiding your face with an ugly mask, laughed at horror, And, trying to overcome fear, Hardened your spirit with a majestic delirium, A Rite of destruction dance Under Drum thunder (p. Tagore. In that ancient, frenzied age...).
YOUTH DANCE Arabic Yemeni folk dance, characterized by a large number of squats and movements along the dance line to the right and left.
YUMBO peruvian and Ecuadorian dance. Wed. yam bu.
YURUPARI (SPANISH: YURUPARI) brazilian Indian ritual dance. It is intended to protect young male dancers from female temptations.
ZAFAK Adyghe folk pair dance. Purpose and content of the dance acquaintance of a young man and a girl. Their movements are diverse: moving in a circle, bypassing young men and girls, etc. The girl dances with lowered eyes, smoothly; the young man with raised head, courageously.
ZAINKA (bunny) Russian folk dance game at gatherings. In the dance game "Zainka", the young man dressed up as a hare, spun, jumped, and tried to escape from the circle of dancers. Pasyutinskaya street. Magic world of dance). Wed. Zainka, poplyashi, Serenky, poplyashi, Thats it, thats it poplyashi! (from a dance song).
ZAMBRA see sambre.
ZANG (Tajik. "small bells") Tajik womens dance. The dancer, having bells on her belt, on her hands and feet, moves to their ringing and to the accompaniment of a tambourine (doira). Her movements are light and graceful (turns, rotations, hand movements, body flutterings).
ZAPATEADO zapateado (Spanish for zapatos "shoes") is a Spanish folk dance of three-step rhythm (3/8), with complicated heel tapping, tap dancing, which resembles sabotier and anglaise; the tempo increases, slows down and increases again. A kind of kante flamenco dance. It looks like guaracha. It goes back to the tango.
ZAPATEO (Spanish: zapateo "kicking a shot") an old Spanish form of song and dance. It ends many Spanish and Latin American dances. He started off reluctantly, but gradually brightened up. The melody ended with a fugue for zapateo (H. M. Argedas. Deep rivers).
ZAR ritual song dance in northeast Africa. Wed. leyva, az zar.
ZARB MAKYAM Lezgian lyrical dance of a calm nature.
ZAVIRUHA (Polish. zawrirucha ("snowstorm") is a Polish folk regional dance. The name reflects the rapidity of this dance.
ZBUYNICKI (Polish. zbojnicki "robber", from zboj" robber") is a dance of noble mountain robbers from the Polish Tatras. It looks like a gural. Run in a circle with raised axes and ice axes and with high jumps. In the first part of the dance there are battle cries and shrill whistles, in the second part there are quiet, careful, stealthy movements.
ZEFFA arabian wedding ritual dance. Performed with drums and wind instruments.
ZEMBA an old Angolan dance in which men and women touch each others navels. Wed. massemba, umbigada.
ZEMBA KUEKA Latin American dance that combines the features of zemba and cueca.
ZEMKRELO (from cargo. zemo "upper") Georgian round dance of warriors. Some of the dancers form a tight circle, facing the center of the circle and placing their hands on the shoulders of those closest to them. Others stand on their shoulders and also wrap their arms around each others shoulders. The two-tiered circle moves first in one direction, then in the other, performing various dance moves.
ZEYBEK (from the name of the ancient Zeybek ethnic group that lived in Asia Minor) Turkish folk dance.
ZEYBEKIKO Greek male solo improvisational dance. The dancer is surrounded by people who are on their knees, clapping at him. Execution requires great strength and preparation.
ZHIGA English dance, common in the 16th century. The name comes from either the Old French word giguer ("to dance") or the Old English word giga (folk violin). At first, the zhiga had a size of 4/4, later zhigi began to be composed in the size of 6/8 with dotted eighths. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the giga (with the French name gigue) was included in an instrumental suite and became the finale in a sequence of four main dances of the so – called French suite. Often such gigs were composed in a polyphonic form, and in the second section a theme was developed that represented a reversal of the theme of the first section.
ZHUOXI (Tibetan. zhuoxie "song and dance") is a Tibetan dance with oval drums on the belt. The pace increases from slow to fast. They dance to the beat of drums, and later the singing begins. Expressing different feelings, they change the dance patterns.
ZURNY TRYNGI (Armyansk. "horse racing under the Zurna") is an Armenian single male dance. Running with a helical jump, rotation on the half-fingers of two legs, on one leg, etc. Difficult to execute.
ZYGATLAG (zygatlyat) Adyghe folk dance, fast and energetic.
a party (vechorka, vechorki, vechukha, vecherushka) evening gatherings, youth meetings, etc. in Russia, for entertainment, with dances and circular songs with kisses. In front of the people, in a round dance, the Guy hugged the girl, And the girl was ashamed and began to cry and sob... Dance, dance, hit the fractions, Dance, do not spare your legs! (russian dance song).
addition:A LA SECONDE the position at which the performer is positioned en face, and the "working" leg is open to the side by 90° .
bashkir aira, biyu kui, cuckoo
bear slovak folk male dance game. Performed by three young men. Two of them try to knock down the third cap, and the latter defends himself with deft movements. The person who knocked down the hat puts it on himself, etc.
bi BOP (bop) is a jazz style that developed and existed in the mid-20th century. as a reaction against swing and its rhythmic and melodic simplicity; fast dance to the music of "modern". Musical size 4/4. Fast foot movements. Close to jive. Sample in the French movie" Dance with Me " (Sexy girl). Cold jazz, be Bop, and jazz rock fought their battles later, But there was always a god named Armstrong Louis (A. Dolsky. Hello, Louis!).
bit see big bit.
but Japanese mask theater, which is a synthesis of dance, music and song. It was in its prime in the XIV-XV centuries. A large place in these performances is occupied by bugaku dances (see); the performances of noh and their dances are refined, have an esoteric character.
butterflies Cameroonian folk dance. To the sound of a pleasant, lively tune, the wives of the Fons went to the middle and performed a lovely dance. At first, they all stood in a row and made intricate, barely noticeable movements with their hands and feet. Then the two leading ones joined hands, and the last one circled along the row and suddenly began to fall back, but the hands caught her in time and set her straight. The dance continued. The music grew faster and faster, the butterfly performer spun faster and faster, and the two dancers who were holding hands tossed her harder and harder. In the midst of the dance, the Fon strutted up to the cheers of the audience and approached the women. Chanting loudly, he also spun around, and his red and yellow robe turned into a solid colorful cloud… He spun like a top as he walked along the line of wives. His powerful voice drowned out their chorus… With a last dashing turn, the Fon fell on his back, but his wives held him back, even though they staggered from the blow. As he fell, the Fon spread his arms out to the sides and for a moment covered the women with the flowing skirts of his robe, so that he really looked like a huge colorful butterfly (J. Durrell. Zoo in my luggage).
cabbage view of a round dance in the Ryazan region. The figure of this round dance "curls" out of the circle.
cachucha (Spanish: cachucha "small boat", "kind of cap") Spanish Andalusian dance. Performed with a chorus and clicking castanets, lively, passionate character, with graceful movements and poses, with fractional tapping heels, rhythmic movements of the hips. Music size 3/8, 3/4.Tempo is medium. Performed separately by women or men. It consists of a bolero and a fandango. That woman, coiling like a serpent, Dances, a dress reaching to her knees, Showing and hiding, Capturing hearts...Dances, like a gloomy bacchante, Kachuchu in the old way And seems sweet bait To lead madmen to hell... Under the edge of the skirt that flew up, Madly vznesena jump, The marble body Glitters, The Leg under the silk dress is a beautiful image of a womans face. with a stocking. She runs and bows her body; A hand that is no whiter than flowers unites greedy desires into a bouquet (T. Gautier. Inessa Sierra); Here, in front of the bananas, If I dont get bored, Ill Dance kachucha between the fountains (A. K. Tolstoy. The desire to be Spanish); Did understanding Beethoven take away from you the opportunity to get involved in polka, to melt with pleasure when Taglioni used to dance cachucha? (A. Herzen. Letters from France and Italy);
chika (Spanish: Chica "little girl") Latin American Black erotic dance of African origin. The dancer holds the body in immobility, moving only the lower part of the hips. A male partner approaches her quickly and very close, then steps back, then rushes back to her. The surrounding people make a terrible noise. They suggest a connection with angrizmen.
deer Russian round dance and Yuletide game; girls walk with songs around a guy who collects a handkerchief from them and then takes a ransom.
discussion czech dance. My grandmothers Tibetan headscarves were not yet in fashion, and the "conversation" was strictly danced. Polachek. Nocturne).
duct tape (English scotch "Scottish") the same as eco-season.
fire see fire dance.
hayduk (weng. haidu "Hungarian warrior or servant of the pan") is a Polish folk regional dance, dance of the Haiduks, of a jaunty nature.
joy modern Belarusian dance, cheerful and fervent. Pereplyas of girls and boys, followed by their common dance.
jumping It is easy to bounce on two legs according to the nature of the music. Maintain your posture. Rhythmically perform jumps on two legs. For each one ? tact.
kabardinian islamey, kabardinka, kadardai makyam, kafa, uj
krakowiak (from the name of the city of Krakow, originally meaning "resident of the Cracow Voivodeship in Poland") an old Polish folk dance (originally in the gentry, that is, in the noble environment), energetic and mobile. Later, a ballroom dance. Music size 2/4. Tempo is fast or moderately fast. Sample in M. Glinkas opera "Ivan Susanin" , in B. Asafyevs ballet "Fountain of Bakhchisarai". The musicians, who had had time to rest, broke out on the whole threshing floor in a cheerful Cracowiak. But the dance did not begin soon: many people did not know how to dance it and could not find a partner... "Come on, with a slap!" Everyone knew what this meant, and the dancers immediately began to back away, taking the girls by the waist, and the dancer from the first pair, looking up at Jan with shining eyes, easily, like a bird, it fluttered into his arms (E. Ozheshko. My God, how I danced the mazurka and the Cracowiak when I was your age! (D. Zlatovratsky. The young people of the best families considered it an honor to invite her to the Mazurka or Cracowiak (N. V.). Ostrovsky. Born of the Storm).
lithuanian blesdingele, kubelas, malunelis, mikita, ozhialis, ruguchai, suktinis
pigeon russian folk round dance. Couples of dancers standing opposite each other kiss all together at the same time.
pipe Serbian folk dance, mixed, with any number of dancers who move in an open circle counterclockwise, holding their hands down.
potatoes (Belarusian. "potato") is a Belarusian folk dance with singing. Fun, dicotyledonous size.
sheep Italian dance of shepherds, wild, stormy nature.
skateboard modern ballroom pair dance, slow shake. Partner and partner are facing each other or side by side, hands in front, bent at the elbows. Two steps to the right, then to the left with the other foot attached and with small turns.
species an ancient Indian dance, widely spread among shepherds and cowherd girls. cf. dandia ras. Who did not give in to women and who did they not deceive? Shambhu danced once and Govinda danced the rasa dance... (Shukasaptati).
spondee ancient Greek ritual music and dance performance during the sacrifice. Cf. spondialia (song at the sacrifice).
squirrel latvian folk dance. The girl performing it shows ease and grace of movements.
street round dance, circle, or tanok (see round dance).
striptease a solo dance in restaurants, etc., in which a woman gradually takes off her clothes completely. Undressing takes place slowly, the dancer covers the naked places with her hands or removed clothes, as a method of arousing interest. In a revue, a dancer undresses while standing up… This dance is called "striptease". The dance is terrible. In the bar, bald heads and whistling Like leeches, the eyes of drunkards were full (A. Voznesensky Cathedral. Striptease).
stuffed cabbage old Russian folk dance. The gestures represent the caressing of pigeons. Even the important Zamyatnya Opalev got up several times to dance a cabbage roll (M. Zagoskin. Yuri Miloslavsky).
ГЫТГЫЛЫДА Azerbaijani mass womens round dance. The girls, coming out in turn in a circle, portray an angry old woman, then a defiant girl, then a modest, bashful girl; their movements are sometimes impetuous, then slowly smooth.
ДИВНА, ДИВНА Serbian folk mixed or female dance, a type of round dance. The pace is average. The movements of girls are soft and small; boys are more energetic and larger. Both of them stand one by one facing the center of the circle, holding hands raised forward, moving in a circle.
ЖАСТАР БИЙ Kazakh dance, fun. Eight girls and eight boys participate. It is distinguished by smooth, beautiful hand movements in girls and energetic, strong-willed movements in young men.
ПЛЯСНЯ, ПЛЯСЬ, ПЛЯСЬБА dialect names of dances.
ПОЛСКА (Swedish. polska is a Swedish and Finnish dance of Polish origin, which became a ballroom dance in the 18th century. Close to the Mazurka. The musical size is three-pronged or two-pronged. From the house, laughter can be heard everywhere. They dance in front of their grandfather, pranksters, What do they care about the grumbling of old age? (E. Vuorela. Spring mood).
СЫСЫЯК (Romanian. "saraychik") is a Moldovan folk dance. Choreographic image of the construction of a corn storage shed. Moving in a circle with your hands intertwined, entering the dancing girls in a circle.
ТААСОБИ (rice dance) ritual Japanese dance on the occasion of planting rice, in the rice festival. Performed by one man in a rice straw robe. The wide sleeves of the jacket depict the wings of a butterfly.
ТЯ ОЮЕ Chinese dance (nationality and), joyful character, with clapping hands.
