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JUMP, BOYS
Đokinëkit, berniukai
It is one of the variants of “Grasytinis”, its melody is very
similar to a popular “Dance with clogs”. The dancers or the musicians are merrily
singing.

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The sequence of the dance
The dance is danced in pairs, joining hands like for a waltz.
1. Polka
(8 bars) |
“Dance boys, dance girls” |
The dancers’ couples merrily dance
polka. Having finished bar 8, the dancers let their hands free and turn to each other in a
couple. (For kids we propose to make a circle and go round jumping in a double jump). |
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2. Threatening
(8 bars) |
“Now we are going to stamp our feet, Now we are going to
clap our hands.
We shall threaten, we shall threaten,
Now we are going to turn around”. |
Standing one in front of another, the
dancers in a couple perform the actions, described in the song: stamp (“we are going to
stamp”), clap their hands (“we are going to clap our hands” - “one-and-two”),
they threaten with the forefinger of the right hand, then of the left hand, and in four
simple steps they turn in the same place round their right shoulder (“now we are going
to turn”). Afterwards the dancers again join hands like for a waltz and start dancing
from the beginning. |
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The dance originates from the South of Lithuania, Punskas region
(currently the territory of Poland).
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