Re: klezmer dancing

[Wholesale Klezmer Band <ganeydn...>]

Greek circle dancing has something similar to shining, though I don't know
what they call it.  The person shining doesn't get into the center of the
circle, though, but is at the beginning of the line, connected to the
second in line with a tikhl (again, I don't know how to say kerchief in
Greek).  He or she does turns, jumps, slapping the ground, ignoring the
regular steps that the rest of the dancers are doing.  Then s/he drops off
the front of the line and tags onto the end, leaving the next person to be
the shiner.

Maybe this is getting a little too off topic, but there are other
similarities between Jewish and Greek music, so why not.

Zayt gezunt (be healthy),

Yosl (Joe) Kurland
The Wholesale Klezmer Band
Colrain, MA 01340
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At 12:25 AM -0400 7/25/99, Joe Kurland & Peggy Davis wrote:
>I'd guess that's how Serbs are supposed to look when they're dancing...but
>I wonder how uniform Jewish dancing ever was. You know the saying about 3
>Jews, 4 opinions. I've thought that that's why we have the custom of
>"shining," so there is a formal place for individual interpretation and
>exhibition within group dancing.
>


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