Lezginka
The Lezghinka (Russian Лезгинка ) is a folk dance of various ethnic groups of the Caucasus, including the eponymous Lezgins, further the Azerbaijanis, Georgians, Ossetians, Circassians, the eastern Armenians, and Chechens.
The Lezghinka is also a Turkish folk dance is mostly danced by the Azerbaijani minority in the northeastern provinces of Ardahan, Kars and Iğdır. In Turkey, it is also called Kafka Oyunları (German Caucasian dances) called. In the many languages of the Caucasus dance has different names, such as Azerbaijani azerbaycan toyu, Azerbaijani dance ', georgian კარტული / Kartuli, the kart Metallic / the Georgian ', older name Georgian ლეკური / lekuri, which Lekische ' derived from an earlier name Dagestan, which dates back to the medieval kingdom of Leki in Dagestan, Chechen ловзарг / lowsarg, in the two Circassian written languages Adyghe islamij and Kabardino исламей / Islamey, the Islamic ', Ossetian зилгæ кафт / silgä kaft or тымбыл кафт / tymbyl kaft - both means circle dance '. The older Georgian name and the Russian name indicate that at least substantial elements of dance developed in Dagestan. In Georgia, there are five different dances with different names, which are summarized elsewhere as Lezghinka.
The music of the Lezghinka is in very fast and dynamically acting 6/8. Clock. Traditional musical instruments are the goblet drum tombak, the frame drum ghaval or the Georgian boiler drum pair diplipito, later, among other things, the accordion Garmon added.
When Lezghinka is a couple or group dance. Participants are often dressed in traditional costumes, the men wear a sword at his side and the women long adorned clothing. The man is dancing in rapid and short steps, then he falls through a whirling jump on her knees and jumps up again. The woman on the other hand moves slowly and worn. This role division is retained no longer as strict today. Traditionally, the dance is performed in a viewing audience, the audience either with your hands or with whips or sabers on the floor clap the beat and sometimes alternately participate in the dance. One element of the Lezghinka is a dance on tiptoe, another a dagger dance, in which five or more daggers thrown from the hand or held in the mouth and rammed by a swing in the earth. There are also dances in which with swords and shields, a sword fight is hinted dance. The famous Sabre Dance by Aram Khachaturian processed elements of Lezghinka.