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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).

 

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.

 

The dance originates from the South of Lithuania, Punskas region (currently the territory of Poland).

 

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