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Bessie Schonberg
… University there. Finally she had an opportunity to study dance, in which her father had never approved of her … that Schönberg became truly inspired by her studies in dance. In 1929 Schönberg decided to leave Oregon with Hill and go to New York to study dance. Hill helped Schönberg in numerous ways, including …
World History of the Dance
… … Curt Sachs … Bessie Schonberg … World History of the Dance …
Hopak (LKT)
… the full reference. “The principal forms [of Russian folk dance] are the korovod and the trepak, the former danced by young girls holding hands,...The popular Russian dances are, properly speaking, of Cossack origin: there is …
Beroyges-tants
… citation, you get the full reference. “The [ beroyges ] dance ended, the song was stopped. The groom approached and … that among our large masses, for a long time now the folkdance has been accompanied by singing; and not only to [modern couple dances such as] the polka did people improvise and sing …
Wedding Dances
… … 2 … The Chasidic Dance … The Chasidic Dance … 34023 … 13-15 … New York … … 1975 … Marsha Seid … Fred Berk … Wedding Dances …
Mekhutenim-tants
… 1266 . “The scholar Gabriel Grod published... ‘ mekhutonim dances’ [done] during the arrangement of the ‘tenoim’ ... … particularly as a family feast accompanied by modest [dance] turns... yet with no mention of ‘klezmorim’ in … accompaniment of the ‘klezmorim’ and the performance of dances. Fridhaber 1972, pp. 15-16 . “The ‘beroyges’ and …
Kosher-tants (LKT)
… Avraham Rekhtman derives that the kosher-tants is ‘the dance of the groom with the bride after the wedding-meal to … when the time for the couple to be alone comes, people dance a kosher-tants to show that the wedding is a ‘kosher … and in other places... In some places people used to dance the kosher-tants in this way: if the bride was a …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… the full reference. “These two khusidlekh [Hasidic-style dance tunes, singular khusid ] were cornerstones of Leon’s old-time, Jewish dance repertoire. He often referred to them as a mitsve-tentsl [ mitsve dance], alluding to their frequent use at Jewish weddings to …
Semele (LKT)
… of each citation, you get the full reference. “Sometimes dances are mentioned in the literature for which we have not been able to gather data, although they were danced in the late nineteenth century. For example, a folk song (Ginzburg-Marek 1901: no. 254) mentions a dance called semene (Moliver, Vilna, Kovno gubernias ): Gave …
Shemele (LKT)
… also proposes... Later during a mention of the ‘beroyges’ dance and reconciliation, there is a mention of the German dance’s existence from 1500 (and of many similar to it in … Bayer 1960, p. 24 . “The ‘beroyges’ and ‘shalom’ dances [are] two Jewish weddings dances that were widespread …