Re: shadach vs csardas

[Rachel Heckert <heckertkrs...>]

> Interestingly, an article I read recently by Vizonsky states that 
>"[the Cossack dance] is the display of the warrior and was therefore,
alien 
>to the psychology of the Jew to whom it was wholly unacceptable."  Yet
in 
>this bar mitzvah celebration described below, the Cossack dance was
done.

Interestingly, the Cossack dance is still done at Orthodox Jewish
weddings - on the ladies' side.  I used to do it myself although now too
out of shape, but the teen-agers do it - always one or two - but the "get
down and kick the legs out to front or side" - not the high jumps or "one
hand on the floor and go around it" moves (harder to do in a skirt, I
guess.)  I'm pretty sure the boys do it too.

Regards, 

Rachel Heckert
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