O_o

[bethlakshmi]

OoooooooOOOoooo....

I do not need more technically challenging, time-consuming dance forms....
I do not need more technically challenging, time-consuming dance forms....
I do not need more technically challenging, time-consuming dance forms....
I do not need more technically challenging, time-consuming dance forms....
I do not need more technically challenging, time-consuming dance forms....
I do not need more technically challenging, time-consuming dance forms....

If I keep saying it, will I believe it?

http://www.barynya.com/Cossack_Dancers.htm

Crappy video quality, but freaking fantastic. Yeah, I know they are guys and boys are assembled differently than girls... but oooOOoooo.... Most of this I can't even hope to fake for the Baby Dolls... but the ones I want to come back to for inspiration are:
- second row, left
- third row, right - I might be able to do the first two of the three moves shown here

In the second clump 1/2way down the page:
- first row left
- first row 2nd from right
- second row 2nd from right

Apparently women do no defy gravity in this dance form. And there is some very sane footwork in that second clump - fast... but sane... or at least saner...

Umm...

Go halfway down: http://www.barynya.com/canary.htm

This lady has a giant sunflower on her head.

http://www.barynya.com/gd/video.htm

Has nothing to do with the dance I'm looking for.. but ooooo it's pretty. I love the handwork of the women, and the footwork of the men. Some of the male footwork is blindingly fast, but it is still incredibly manly. All of this is a nice reminder that strength and dexterity in Slavic dance styles do well so show masculinity.

Ahh for a billion lifetimes so I could a billion dance styles...

Oh goodness... they have more of the first page:

http://www.barynya.com/video/video_clips.stm
The first two are the same clips, but I'm also intrigued by:
- the sailor's dance
- Kalinka
- BARYNYA - from the small collection of samples at the bottom
- Zemlyanichka Yagodka
- "The Peddler" (Korobeiniki) - I love the guys foot-touching thing here... hmm...

That guy in thos last 3 clips is fabulous.... I want to him when I grow up.

Um... when I grow up and turn into a man... Um... maybe in another lifetime. I'm enjoying being female in this one...

Comments

[tpau]

iam amused highly. now, i haven't been following, but why ar eyou doign russian folk dances?

[lakshmi-amman.livejournal.com]

Baby Dolls. So... not really "doing russian folk dances" as much as raping and pillaging my way through Russian folk dance culture looking for bits I can steal in 2.5 weeks' time...

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

No more crack!

[jducoeur]

I do not need more technically challenging, time-consuming dance forms....

Of course you do. You need to come to dance practice, so that ladysprite can teach you 16th century Italian. (Which gets pretty technically challenging when you delve up into its higher reaches, although we mostly do the easier ones...)

[merchimerch.livejournal.com]

You might look up the New Archangel Dancers from Sitka, AK. My mom was a member while we lived there and they are an all women group who dance these kinds of dances and take on the parts of both genders. My mom was a "girl dancer" so she never go to do all the fun stuff, but I knew lots of folks who did.