Re: Freilekhs or Bulgar?

[Helen Winkler <winklerh...>]

re: dance tempos
Living in Calgary, we don't try to keep up to the latest trends in Israeli 
dance.  But I have been told that in Israeli sessions in larger centres, 
they like to speed the recorded music up from its intended tempo.  I don't 
know why they are in such a hurry to finish each dance.

In Yiddish dance, I've been told by Judith Brin Ingber, that a major factor 
affecting the tempo would have been the age of the dancers.  Slow it down 
for the grandmother's dance, speed it up for the young folk.

Helen


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