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Patsh Tants (LKT)

… and Berk 1948, pp. 23-24 . (Musical notation included). “‘Women, clap! Take pleasure that both mothers-in-law are … Tants ’ (‘Clap Dance’). This is performed only by married women in a circle with the bride in the center. The matrons …

Koyletsh-tants (LKT)

… claps their hands.” Fenster 1964, pp. 155-56 . “...the women’s dance (and especially the old women’s dance) before the bride with khales with lit candles … . “When the bride and groom returned from the khupe old women... dance against them with ‘bobe’ [old type of …

La Gallarda matadora

… was maintained mostly by oral transmission, primarily by women. The romances, for example, were sung as lullabies and …

Mazltov (LKT)

… accomapnied by floods of tears and the loud sobbing of the women, especially the bride.” [late nineteenth century]. … of the couple. First they played sad melodies that made the women cry, actually when the women saw the klezmers approaching they began to cry, then …

Minuet (LKT)

… [the groom] to the house where the bride was with the young women, but his visit was brief since he was supposed to …

Motse-shabos (LKT)

… begin on Saturday night before the wedding... Young men and women would gather at the bride’s home for a “goodbye party” …

Regn (LKT)

… of the crowd accompanied them. At the same time, the old women danced a Reigen dance in front of the couple...” …

Sher

… dances. The šer and other couple dances were done by women (or girls) alone. In all the descriptions of weddings no special women’s dances or the šer . There is evidence that in earlier centuries women did indeed dance together with men; however, it is …

Sheyne-minke (LKT)

… the full reference. “The bride had her space, where the women quibbled with the girls, [and] there a konter-tants was danced for [the women’s] approval, one which only the Modnitzers knew, this …