Yiddish Klezmer Dancing: Sher

[nilinu]

Oy vey! Ladies, what are you on??

[lesbrody1]

Russian Sher #3 from the Kammen Folio starts at abiyt :40

[olyvoda]

soem romanian steps there , too!

[ewaldmads101]

Χορός με το διάβολο!

[cl7player]

Nice square!

[jerrywrite]

there is a Russian Two Step in there, too.

[mones6]

LO CORTASTE EN EL MEJOR MOMENTO ! =)

[KonnytheViolin]

This looks like sooo much fun. i was at a klezmer evening too and there we danced too. it was just great!!

[54spiritedwill54]

looks like real fun.

[Tiwaking]

Yay!!

[nilinu]

Oy vey! Show me a Jew who can dance, and I'll show you a rabbi with a pork pie!

[arakhachatran]

why do you think so, they are dancing very well!!!

[nilinu]

Just a joke, friend. Just a joke!

[Kurtlane]

Wow! This must be the same Kantorovich band that performed at my parents' wedding!!! My parents told me so much about it!

Thanks a million!

[Kurtlane]

Oh, Alex Kontorovich is from NY. I was thinking of Kontorovich (Kantorovich?) from Kiev. A very popular Yiddish band that performed at weddings in 1950s-60s. Maybe that's his father or uncle. Or even grandfather. Anyone knows?

[Hageulah]

Nice Klezmer music, but the dancing looks like American Line- and Couple-Mixer Dances......

Mirjam

[LarryGastropoleau]

American square dancing and klezmer shers both have their origins in European court dances.

[Hageulah]

Perhaps that could be right, but sorry, dancing to Klezmer is Hora - dancing in a circle and the members are holding hands - and the typical steps are different from Square Dance. Take a look to my Video "Hava Nagila" where we dance spontanous together with our audience.....

[LarryGastropoleau]

There are plenty of different klezmer dances, including the freylakhs (similar to an Israeli hora), the sher (a square dance), and the klezmer hora (a slow dance in 3/8 time). Some are done in circles, some in squares, and some individually or in pairs.

Your Hava Nagila video is an Israeli tune and dance, which has some things in common with klezmer, but definitely is a style of dance distinct from Eastern European klezmer dancing.

[Hageulah]

It doesn' t matter from where the Roots are coming to this kind of Dances - Hora, Freylakhs, Klezmer-Dance, Israeli Dance - it's only important, that the Dancers will have fun while dancing together in a merry circle and enoying the music! Mirjam - Hageulah

[bigbob59gb]

The one main distinctive difference is the Middle Eastern, Greco-Turkish and Gypsy influences on Eastern Europe and Klezmer music.

[thetia]

Thank you for posting this

[Achille77]

Keep YIDDISHKEIT ALIVE !

 NICE VIDEO !!^

[giubica1]

The style and structure of klezmer as we know it today is thought to have come largely from 19th century Bessarabia (Romania), where the bulk of today's traditional repertoire was written. It is based on hora, sirba, doina, all of them of Romanian origin.

For more detail see Wikipedia Klezmer.

[type2mike]

That looks like real fun.