Neshama - נשמה (Israel)

Neshama

נשמה

Israel

These notes ©2016, Andrew Carnie and Nancy Bannister. Dance choreographed by Shlomo Bachar.
We learned this couple dance from Shlomo Bachar at a Mini-workshop he taught on December 20, 2016. 

Meter: 3/4
Formation: Couples, Start side by side, M in the center, holding near hands. Facing LOD
Introduction: Start with Singing.

Use Waltz step throughout, start with outside foot (M's L, W's R)

Part 1

Bar 1: Dance away from partner (back to back), with hands swinging forward, moving forward in LOD
Bar 2: Dance face to face with partner, hands swing back, Moving forward in LOD
Bars 3-4: Get into Ball room hold, and do two waltz steps, turning  one time around CW forward in LOD
Bar 5: facing partner take hands in hands palm to palm. Step on O to O (1), step on I behind O (2), Step on O in place (3). Sway slightly to outside
Bar 6: repeat bar 5 with opposite footwork swaying towards I foot.
Bars 7-8: Standing side by side and facing LOD, dance two waltz steps forward in LOD. 

Part 2:

Bars 1-2: do a parisar turn away from partner
Bars 3-4: do-si-do partner in place
Bars 5-6: Get into Ball room hold, and do two turning waltz steps, turning CW forward in LOD
Bars 7-8: Standing side by side and facing LOD, dance two waltz steps forward in LOD. 

repeat the two parts until the end of the music, on last slow chords W turns CW under M’s arm twice.

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Picking Up Sticks (England)

Picking Up Sticks

England

These notes ©2016, Andrew Carnie. A Playford dance from the 17th century.

Music:

• https://youtu.be/roL7sVl8q4o
• Folkraft 1410
• EFDSS PLA3
• Columbia 5505
• CDS Popular English Country  Dances fo the 17th and 18th Centuries

Meter: 6/8
Formation: Set of three couples, proper contra
Introduction: Depends upon recording, but is often a chord to acknowledge partner.

Forward a double footwork: Step R (1), L (2), R (1), L (&), R (2) (and reverse with opposite footwork)

Part 1 Forward a double and back

Bars 1-2: Everyone face top of set, and take R hand in R hand, moving up the set everyone dance forward a double (R, L, R-L-R)
Bars 3-4: Backing down the set repeat  bars 1-2 with opposite footwork.
Bars 5-8: repeat bars 1-4

Part 2: Exchanges

Bars 1-2: face partner across the set. With 4 running steps, M1 exchanges place with W2.
Bars 3-4: WIth 4 more running steps. M1 exchanges place with M3
Bars 5-8: taking R hands with opposite person, repeat bars 1-4 of part 1
Bars 9-12: W1 repeats bars 1-4 of part 2, exchanging places with M2 and W3
Bars 13-16: repeat bars 5-8
Bars 17-24: repeat bars 1-8 with M2 starting the sequence.
Bars 25-32:  repeat bars 9-16 with W2 starting the sequence
Bars 33-48: repeat bars 10-16 with M3, then W3 starting the sequence

Part 3 Siding

Bars 1-2: using forward and back a double footwork, exchange places with partner, passing L shoulder and turning a 1/2 CCW to end facing in on opposite side.
Bars 3-4: repeat bars 1-2 with opposite footwork passing R shoulders
Bars 5-8: repeat bars 1-4

Part 4: Slipping 

Couples 1 & 2
Bars 1-2: using 4 slip step Couple 1 take both hands and slide down to 2nd position, while C2 using slip steps dance up into 1st position on the outside.
Bars 3-4: repeat bars 1-2, with couple 2 sliding down and C1 sliding up the outside
Bars 5-8: repeat bars 1-4

Couple 3:
Bars 1-8 using skipping steps, cross over with partner passing R shoulder, dance up around sliding couples. Cross over at the top again, passing R shoulders again, then down the outside back to place

Bars 9-16: repeat bars 1-8, except with Couple 1 crossing over and down the outside, while C3 take hands and slide up, while couple 2, slides down the outside to start.

Part 5: Arming

Bars 1-4: Link R elbow with partner and turn all the way around with 8 steps
Bars 5-8: Link L elbow with partner and turn all the way around with 8 steps.

Part 6: Sheepskin Hey

Bars 1-8: all three men form single file, and dance up to weave through the women. M1 and M2, weave behind W1, in front of W2, and behind W3. M3 does something different, he weaves behind W1, in front of W2, but instead of going behind W3, he loops around W2, so that he ends up at the head of the line.
Bars 9-16: M3 and M1, dance behind W2, in front of W1, then loop around her. M2 skips dancing around 1, and loops around W2 instead. He's now in the lead, but heads down
Bars 17-24: M2 and M3 weave in front of W2 and in behind W3. M1 dances around W2 to be in the lead.
Bars 25-32: M leads line around W1, then down the back, and up their own side back to place
Bars 33-64: repeat bars 1-32, But with women chasing and weaving around the men.

Bow to partner on final chord

Other Notes on the web

• (1972) Camp Hess Kramer 
• Page 12 of Stockton Folk Dance Camp Syllabus (1948)
• Page 46 of Stockton Folk Dance Camp Syllabus (1957)
• Page 15 of Wolff et al (1968) 11th Folklore Village Christmas
• Page 73 of Santa Barbara Folk Dance Conference (1958)
• (1993) Let's Dance Magazine

Bill and Karen Faust's Fayetteville Video

Other Videos on the Web

Sheet Music

• Sharp, Cecil Country Dance Tunes. Set 7
• Barnes, Peter. English Country Dance Tunes
• EFDSS "Community Dance Manual" 5

Other Sources

• Sharp, Cecil J (1926) The Country Dance Book, Part 4. Novello & Company
• Lidster and  Tamurini (1965) Folk Dance Progressions
• Geisler (1999) Village Music Around the world: Dance Syllabi
• Herman (1953) Folk Dance Syllabus no 1.
• Van Winkle Keller and Genevieve Shimer (1990) English Country Dances
• The English Dancing Master

Also called: Picking of sticks

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Heart Like A Fire - Viudas de vivos e mortos (England/USA)

Viudas de vivos e Mortos

Heart like a fire

Spain/England/USA

These notes ©2016, Andrew Carnie.

Poem by RosalIa de Castro. Song by Amando Prada. Transcript of Gallego by Lourdes Iglesias from Galicia. The dance was choreographed by Stefan Freedma

Music: Amando Prada; Iste Vaise - Fuxan os Ventos
Meter: 2/4
Formation: Closed Circle, hands down in V position.
Introduction: Start with singing

Bar 1: facing LOD, step on R forward in LOD (1). Touch L next to R (2)
Bar 2: Turning to face center, step on L to L (1), Touch R next to L (2)
Bar 3: Step on R backward out of center (1), Touch L next to R (2)
Bar 4: Step L forward into the center (1). Touch R next to L (2)
Bar 5: Step R forward into center, arms come up to W position (1). Touch L next to R (2)
Bar 6: Step on L backwards out of center, arms lower to V position (1), Touch R next to L (2)
Bar 7-8: Step R (1), L (2), R (1), touch L (2)  into the center, arms circle up and towards body (like in An Dro)
Bar 9: repeat bar 6
Bar 10: repeat bar 5
Bars 11-12: repeat bars 7-8 with opposite footwork, and backing up away from center. Arms reverse the "9" (up, forward and down to V position), except on last count of bar 12, step on R to R.
Bars 13-14: Do a 4 step (L, R, L, R) 3/4 CCW turn in place, moving slightly to the L, end facing LOD
Bar 15: Step L (1), R (2) backing up in RLOD
Bar 16: Step back in LOD on L (1), brush R foot forward (2)

Repeat dance from the beginning

Tucson Video

We took this the first night we learned it, so it's a bit rough!

Sheet music:

• http://livingcircle.net/Dance/Music%20Notation/heartlikeafiremu.html

Lyrics

http://livingcircle.net/Resources/Heart_like_a_Fire_-_Am.pdf

Iste vaise e aquel vaise

e todos todos se van.
Galicia sin homes queda

que te - poidan traballar.

Tes en cambio orfos e orfas

tes campos de soledad,

tes maes que non teñien fillos

e fillos que non ten pai.

E tes cor - azóns que sofren

longas ausencias mortais,

viúdas de vivos e mortos

que viven con soledad.

Widows of the alive and dead.
One goes and the other one goes and all, all of them go.
Galida stays without men that can work the land.
Instead you have orphans, instead you have lonely fields, you have mothers that do not have children and children that do not have a father.
And you have hearts that suffer long fatal absences,
widows of the alive and dead that live in longing.

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Szatmári Karikázó - Palfi Version (Hungary)

Szatmári Karikázó (Palfi version)

Hungary

These notes ©2016, Andrew Carnie. Originally taught by Csaba Palfi. Women's circle dance from the Szatmar region

Music:

• Folkraft LP29
• https://youtu.be/3IdndBtxcvM

Meter: 4/4
Formation: Circle of women, hands down in V position
Introduction: 6 beats, start with main melody

Part 1:

Bar 1: Traveling Hatravagos Cifra Step: moving in LOD, step R (1), L (2), R (3), L (&), R (4)
Bar 2: repeat bar 1 with opposite footwork
Bars 3-6: repeat bars 1-2 two more times, shifting into a back basket hold
Bar 7: Hatravago Cifra step: Facing center, Leap on R to R (1), cross L over R (2), Step R in place (3), step on L next to R or slightly behind (&), step on R in place
Bar 8: repeat bar 7 but with opposite footwork and direction
Bar 9: repeat bar 7
Bar 10: Lippentős step: Hop on R (1), Cross L over R (2), Raise up on the balls of both feet (3), lower heels (4)
Bar 11: repeat bar 10 with opposite footwork and direction
Bar 12: repeat bar 10
Bar 13: Hop on R, kicking L forward (1), Step on L next to R (2), Hop on L, kicking R forward (3), touch R heel forward (4)
Bar 14: Drop hands, hop on L again, kicking R forward (1), Starting to turn clockwise in place solo, step on R behind you (2), continuing the turn step L (3), R (4), retake back basket hold.
Bar 15-18: take 8 rida steps (L to L, Cross R in front) to the L

Part 2:

Bar 1: Do one Lippentős step to the R (see bar 10 of part 1)
Bar 2: Do one Lippentős step to the L
Bar 3: Hop on R (1), Cross L over R (2), Step on R to R (3), Cross L over R (4)
Bars 4-6: Six rida steps traveling to R starting by step on R to R
Bars 7-12: repeat bars 1-6 of part 2 with opposite footwork and direction
Bars 13-17: repeat bars 13-17 of part 1, don't cross R on the last count, just pause
Bar 18: facing center step R  in place (1), Step L behind R (&), Step R in place (2), Step L in place (3), step R behind L (&), Step L in place (4) (i.e. 2 cifra steps)

repeat dance from the beginning

Other Notes on the web

• http://www.folkdance.com/LDNotations/SzatmariKarikazo1999LD.pdf
• http://www.dunav.org.il/dance_notes/szatmari_karikazo_dance_notes.pdf
• http://www.dunav.org.il/dance_notes/szatmari_karikazo%20page1_dance_notes.pdf (Page 1)
• http://www.dunav.org.il/dance_notes/szatmari_karikazo%20page2_dance_notes.pdf (Page 2)
• Page 41 of (1970) Stockton Folk Dance Camp
• Page 111 of (1972) Stockton Folk Dance Camp

Bill and Karen Faust's Fayetteville Video

Also spelled: Szatmari, Karikazo

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Tojčevo Kolo - Тојчево Коло (Serbia)

Tojčevo Kolo

Тојчево Коло

Serbia

These notes ©2016, Andrew Carnie. Originally taught by Ciga Despotovič.

Music:

• Ciga Despotovič: 16 Yugoslavian Dances
• Ciga and Ivon volume 1

Meter: 2/4
Formation: Open circle with hands down in V position
Introduction: None, start right away.

Part 1:

Bar 1: With feet together, twist heels to R (1), twist heels to L (2)
Bar 2: Repeat bar 1
Bar 3: Twist heels to R (1). Twist heels to L (&). Twist heels to R (2). Twist heels to L (&)
Bar 4: Step on R to R (1), Step on L behind R (2), Cross R over L. with a bent knee (&)
Bars 5-8: repeat bars 1-4 with opposite footwork and direction.

Part 2:

Bar 1: Repeat bar 4 of Part 1
Bar 2: Repeat bar 4 of Part 1 with opposite footwork and direction
Bar 3: Repeat bar 4 of Part 1
Bar 4: Close L next to R, straightening knees (1), bend knees (&), Straighten knees (2), bend knees (&)
Bars 5-8: repeat bars 1-4 with opposite footwork and direction.

Part 3:

Bar 1: Step on R to R, with a straight knee (1), close L next to R, with a bent knee (&), Step on R to R with a straight knee (2), Close L next to R, with a bent knee (&)
Bar 2: repeat bar 1 of part 3, except don't close L on the last count.
Bar 3: Čukče on R, lifting L knee (1), Step on L next to R (&), Čukče on L, lifting R knee (2). Step on R next to L (&)
Bar 4: repeat bar 4 of part 2
Bars 5-8: repeat bars 1-4 with opposite footwork and direction.
Bars 9-16: repeat bars 1-8

Part 4:

Bar 1: Switch hands to escort position, and turn to face slightly R of center. Step R, with a R knee, in LOD (1), close L with a bent knee (&), Step R, with a straight knee, in LOD (2), Close L with bent knee (&)
Bars 2-4: repeat bar 1, three more times.
Bars 5-7: turning to face L of center, continue step closes backing up in LOD
Bar 8: Step R (1), L (&), R (2) in place
Bars 9-16: repeat bars 1-8 with opposite footwork and direction

Repeat dance from the beginning

Other Notes on the web

• Page 37 of (1994) Camp Hess Kramer
• Page 64 of (1978) Stockton Folk Dance Camp
• Page 58 of (1979) Stockton Folk Dance Camp
• (1979) Santa Barbara Folk Dance Symposium

Bill and Karen Faust's Fayetteville Video

Other Videos on the web

Also spelled: Toicevo, Toichevo, Toičevo, Tojchevo, Tojcevo

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Sharm-a-Sheikh - שארם א-שייך (Israel)

Sharm-a-Sheikh 

שארם א-שייך

Israel

These notes ©2016, Andrew Carnie. Originally choreographed by Rivka Sturman in 1968. She said that the song was popular during the Israeli Six day war and became famous because it was played between news broadcasts. There is a different dance by this same name by Dani Dassa. Sharm-el-Sheik is a resort town on the Sinai peninsula in Egypt that is popular with Israeli tourists.

Music:

• https://youtu.be/w5NXzK6pzB8 (Ran Eliran) -- note that this original recording is too slow to dance to. You either have to speed it up or use a different recording. 
• https://youtu.be/sAKVLI2pGZI (Shoshana Damari)
• Hed-arzi BMN 581(New Favourites Israeli Folk Dances By Rivka Sturman), Ophira Gluska With Orchestra
• "Israeli dances" Folkways FW6937 (1937L)
• Changing Directions Vol 6. Highscope foundation

Composer Rafi Gabai
Lyrics: Amos Etinger
Singer: Ran Eliran
Meter: 12/8, but for the dancers it's easiest to think of this as a 4 beat bar, which is how I've notated the dance below. (Thanks to all my musical friends on facebook for a helpful discussion of the meter of this tune).
Formation: Circle, hands down in V position
Introduction: depends upon the recording, there are a few different versions, 16 beats is common. Start with the main melody.

Part 1

Bar 1: Moving in LOD, step R (1,2). Step L (3,4)
Bar 2: Step backwards in RLOD on R (1), Step on L next to R (2), Step forward in LOD on R (3), pause (4) This is a back yemenite
Bars 3-4: repeat bars 1-2 with opposite footwork
Bar 5: Step R (1,2) L (3) in LOD, Close R next to L with weight (4)
Bar 6: Step on L in LOD, turning to face center and swinging R around to front (1,2), touch foot forward (3,4)
Bars 7-8: Repeat bars 5-6
Bars 9-16: Repeat bars 1-8

Part 2

Bar 1:  Drop hands and turn CW to the R, stepping R (1), L (2), R (3), pause (4)
Bar 2:  Step on L to L (1,2), touch R next to L (3,4)
Bars 3-4: Repeat bars 1-2
Bar 5: Step on R (1,2),  L (3) in LOD, Step on R to R (4)
Bar 6: Step on L behind R (1) Step on R to R (2), Step on L in front of R (3), pause (4)
Bars 7-8: Repeat bars 5-6.
(depending upon the recording you might have to repeat bars 1-8.)

Other notes on the web

• https://dansesdisrael.fr/danses/s/sharm-a-sheikh/
• http://www.imber.com.au/ifd/dance_steps/sharm_a_sheich.pdf

Bill and Karen Faust's Fayetteville Video

Other Videos on the web

Lyrics

http://shironet.mako.co.il/artist?type=lyrics&lang=1&wrkid=6344&prfid=922&song_title=4658e

שארם א שייח

גדול הוא הלילה ולך מחייך

חזרנו עם בוקר אל שארם א-שייח

עברנו בלילה, בים ובהר

ובאנו עם בוקר אל תוך המיצר

את שארם א-שייח, חזרנו אלייך שנית

את בליבנו, ליבנו תמיד

הים והמלח יראו את השיר

חזרנו אליכם, טיראן וסנפיר

אותם השמיים מעל לבבך

מיצר, ים ומים - את שארם א-שייח

את שארם א-שייח, חזרנו אלייך שנית

את בליבנו, ליבנו תמיד

עולה לו הבוקר בחוף אלמוגים

עוברות שוב במים ספינות דייגים

יורד לו הערב, מביא עוד חלום

מביא על המים תקווה לשלום

את שארם א-שייח, חזרנו אלייך שנית

את בליבנו, ליבנו תמיד

הוי, שארם א-שייח!

http://hebrewsongs.com/song-sharmelsheikh.htm

gadol hu halaila
velach mechayech
chazarnu im boker
el sharm a sheikh

avarnu balaila
bayam uvahar
uvanu im boker
el toch hametzar

Chorus:
at sharm a sheikh
chazarnu elayich shenit
at bilibenu
libenu tamid

hayam vehamelach
yadu et hashir
chazarnu elechem
tiran usnapir

otam hashamayim
me al levavech
metzar yam hamayim
at sharm a sheikh

Chorus

oleh lo haboker
bechof almogim
ovrot shuv hamayim
sifinot dayagim

yored lo haerev
mevi od chalom
mevi al hamayim
tikva leshalom

Great is the night and it smiles at you
We returned in the morning to Sharam A Sheikh
We passed in the night, the sea and the mountain
Arriving in the morning at the straits

CHORUS :
You're Sharam A Sheikh,
we’ve returned to you once again
You are in our hearts,
always in our hearts

The sea and the salt will view the song
We’ve returned to you Tiran and Snapir
The same skies above your heart
Strait, sea and water- you are Sharam A Sheikh

CHORUS :
You're Sharam A Sheikh,
we’ve returned to you once again
You are in our hearts,
always in our hearts

The morning rises in the coral beach
Fishing boats pass through the water again
The evening sets, bringing another dream
Brings on the water a hope for peace

CHORUS :
You're Sharam A Sheikh,
we’ve returned to you once again
You are in our hearts,
always in our hearts

Hoy, Sharam A Sheikh

Other Sources

• Byrom, Franklin (2009) The Complete Folk dance Notebook. Self published.
• Isaacs, Stan (1969) Typewritten dance notes, University of Washington Folk Dance Festival.
• Weikert, Phyllis (1997) Teaching Folk Dance. Highscope Foundation.

Also Spelled: Sharm A Shech, El, Al, Sheich, Sheych

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To Ting (Denmark)

To Ting

Denmark

These notes ©2016, Andrew Carnie. The title translates as "two things". This dance has been in International Folk Dance circles since the early 1900s.

Music: Folkdancer 1018; Sonart 303
Meter: 3/4 and 2/4
Formation: Couples, holding inside hands
Introduction: There's a brief chord then start right away.

O = outside foot = M's L , W's R
I = Inside foot = M's R, W's L

Part 1:

Bar 1: Using a waltz step dance  forward in LOD and slightly away from partner. Start with outside foot.
Bar 2: Repeat bar 1, except with inside foot and turning to slightly face partner.
Bars 3-4: Repeat bars 1-2
Bars 5-8: Using 4 waltz steps do a turning waltz in ballroom position, moving forward in LOD
Bars 9-16: Repeat bars 1-8.

Part 2:

Bars 1-2: Take 4 walking steps forward in LOD, starting with outside foot.
Bars 3-4: M steps in front of partner, and gets into shoulder-waist position. Do 4 pivot steps (O, I, O, I), progressing forward in LOD
Bars 5-8: Open up and repeat bars 1-4

repeat dance from the beginning

Other Notes on the web

• Happy Feet (1959) Northland Recreation Laboratory
• http://www.folkdancing.com/Pages/skandia/14toting.htm
• Page 66 of Stockton Folk Dance Camp Syllabus (1950)
• Page 22 of Stockton Folk Dance Camp Syllabus (1951)
• Page 9 of Stockton Folk Dance Camp Syllabus (1952)
• Page 31 of Stockton Folk Dance Camp Syllabus (1953)
• Page 34 of Stockton Folk Dance Camp Syllabus (1962)
• Let's dance Magazine 1959
• http://www.phantomranch.net/folkdanc/dances/toting.htm

Bill and Karen Faust's Fayetteville Video

Other Videos on the web

Sheet Music

• Burchenal, Elizabeth and Ward Crampton (1908) Folk-dance Music: A collection of seventy six Characteristic Dances of the People of various nations. Boston, G. Schirmer.
• Lorenzen, Poul and Jeppe Jeppesen (1951) Dances of Denmark. Handbooks of European National Dances 9. Edited by Violet Alford Published in the US by Chanticleer Publishers (Later: Crown Publishers NY (A Chanticleer Edition)); Published in GB by Max Parrish, London

Other Sources

• Casey, Betty (1981) International Folk Dancing USA. Doubleday and Company
• Gilbert, Cecile (1974) International Folk Dance at a Glance. 2nd edition. Burgess Press
• Harris, Jane, Anne Pittman, Marlys Waller (1994) Dance A While: Handbook for Folk Square Contra and Social Dance. Allyn and Bacon.
• Herman, Michael (1947) Folk Dances for All. Barnes and Noble
• Lorenzen, Poul and Jeppe Jeppesen (1951) Dances of Denmark. Handbooks of European National Dances 9. Edited by Violet Alford Published in the US by Chanticleer Publishers (Later: Crown Publishers NY (A Chanticleer Edition)); Published in GB by Max Parrish, London
• Spiesman, Mildred (1970) Folk Dancing. Saunders Company
• Werner, Bob (1980) Scandinavian Folk Dances and Tunes. 3rd edition. Folklore Village Farm

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