Sabre Dance

The Sabre Dance is a movement from the first performed on December 3, 1942 Ballet Gayaneh the Soviet- Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian. Depending on the particular interpretation of the Sabre Dance has a duration of only about two and a half minutes.

It was composed as a dance of the Kurds and danced in the ballet at the festival, which is celebrated the re-establishment of destroyed by the enemy attack cotton memory. While the ballet outside the Soviet Union is little known, the Sabre Dance was often played in concert, was covered by numerous musicians of jazz and pop music and used in many films. Cor de Groot took on November 20, 1958 Jazz piano version on thereof. The British blues-rock band Love Sculpture was with her - placing interpretation of the saber dance after the publication in November 1968 in the UK, German and Swiss charts - presented well in fast-paced Presto. In Germany, the interpretations of Klaus Wunderlich (September 2007) and of the Puhdys (2009 ) are known. The Sabre Dance comes among other things in the film One, Two, Three by Billy Wilder ( U.S. Premiere: December 15, 1961) and in Scoop - Get the Scoop by Woody Allen ( 28 July 2006) before.