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POLKA IN FOURS
Polka keturinë

It is a popular dance of the evening parties, which can be danced by unlimited number of pairs.

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The sequence of the dance

 

The pairs stand in a circle. In a pair dancers join hands like for a waltz, slightly turning to each other’s sides (1 figure).

1. Getting acquainted

(8 bars)

1-2 bar

In two additive steps pairs come close towards the inside of the circle (1 figure).

 

1 figure

 

 

 

 

 

3-4

bar

In two additive steps pairs move away one from another (dance towards the outside of the circle) (2 figure).

2 figure

 

5-8 bar

Repeat the movements of 1-4 bar.

 
Changing

(8 bars)

1 bar

Women leave their men and in two simple steps come to the next man in the right. While going they clap three times. Men, turning half a circle round the left shoulder in the same place (to meet the coming woman) also clap once.

 
 

2-4 bar

The new pairs join hands for a waltz and in six simple steps merrily turn round the right shoulder in the same place (3 figure)

3 figure

 

5 bar

The dancers let the hands free and standing one in front of another, clap three times again (“one-and-two”).

 
 

6-8 bar

Having clapped, they again join hands like for a waltz and turn in the same place as in 2 bar, but now in the opposite direction.

 

In the end dancers remain in the same position as in 1 figure. Further they dance from the beginning, but with new partners. This way women dance with all men and having gone all circle to the right round, come back to their first men.

 

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