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I SOWED A WILLOW
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It is a widely spread circle in Lithuania, danced in couples. There are various variants of the texts and ways of dancing the circle, but the most common elements are a circle and weaving a willow, or a circle and turning round having joined by arms. Here we are providing the descriptions of both elements.

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The sequence of the circle

The even number of dancers stand in a circle, take each other by hands in a simple way, and find partners.

1. A circle (8 bars)	1 - 8 bar “I’ve sowed a willow in the father’s garden”.	The dancers in a running step every quaver merrily turn the circle to the right .	1 figure
2. Turning around, joining arms (8 bars)	“Vai tu ta, vai tu ta, in the farther’s garden”.	1-2 bar: the dancers let their hands free and standing in the same place, six times clap their hands every quaver. 3-4 bar: the couple of dancers join right arms and turn round in a running step in the same place . 5-8 bar: the dancers once again repeat the text and movements of 1-4 bars, but now the couples turn round, joining by the left arms in the opposite direction.	2 figure
1. A circle (8 bars)	1 - 8 bar “I’ve sowed a willow in the father’s garden”	The dancers in a running step every quaver merrily turn the circle to the right .	1 figure
2. Weaving a willow (n bars)	1 - n bar ”Vai tu ta, vai tu ta, in the farther’s garden”	The dancers in a couple turn to each other and start weaving a willow, giving each other in turn right and left hands every bar (the palms of the hands, bent at the elbows, touch in the height of the boosom). The dancers run around in a circle weaving a willow (3 figure), and passing the dancer, coming from the opposite direction, either though the right, or through the left shoulder, before again meets with his original partner.	3 figure

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