Re: shadach vs csardas

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

   Re: kazatkis.  My grandfather, Moishe, who was from rural Lithuania, did 
the kazatski(cosack dance) as it was known to him.  I think it comes under 
the heading of learning what is culturally available.  Like orthodox kids 
knowing how to break dance in the 1980s.
   Trudi
>From: Rachel Heckert <heckertkrs (at) juno(dot)com>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: shadach vs csardas
>Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 08:01:11 -0500
>
> > 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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