"Sex Bomb" costumed character is one of the most funny things to bring to a Birthday, Bar Mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah or any other type of party. This is very funny act that will make all guests feeling good and laughing. "Sex Bomb" is one of acts of the famous Alex Sizov Entertainment company based in New York City.
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Video of Russian, Ukrainian, Cossack, Naniaskiy (Russian Siberia), Tsyganskiy (Russian Gypsy Roma) performances by ensemble Barynya based in New York.
The Russian Department at Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pennsylvania) hosted its annual Russian dinner on Monday, April 7 2008. The dinner featured traditional Russian food and a performance by ensemble Barynya Russian folk singers and dancers: Valentina Kvasova, Mikhail Smirnov, and Alexey Maltsev. For fast price quote contact Barynya Entertainment.
Russian Folk Dance Kadril also known as Quadrille, Kadril'naya, Kadrille, Rigodon is a humorous competitive couples... MORE
Russian Sailors' Dance is also known in Russia as "Yablochko" (Little Apple). This world famous Dance of Russian Sailors was performed... MORE
Ukrainian folk dance Hopak also spelled as Gopak originally was a dance for men only. Later it was performed by couples, male soloists, and mixed groups of dancers. In the western Ukraine it was danced in a closed circle.
The Hopak has no fixed pattern of steps. Men competitively improvise steps, high leaps, squatting kicks, and turns; women dance simple steps, sway, clap, or circle... MORE
videoclip "Snowstorm is blowing along the street" - Russian folk song and dance. Soloists Olga Chpitalnaia and Ganna Makarova. Originally Russian Khorovod dance has to be performed by more people (at least four or six), but ensemble Barynya was not able to afford that many female dancers yet, sorry. more pictures
Kazaki are better known outside of Russia as Cossacks (Turkish word meaning Outlaw, Adventurer or freebooter/freeman). These Cossacks developed from Southern Russia and the Ukraine from the 15th to early 20th centuries.
Drobushki, or Peresek, or Chechetka, - Russian step dance (heel work), always go together with khlapuski (slapping) and also prisyatki (squat work). All these difficult moves used by dancers to express flirtation, challenge and competition. Drobushki usually accompanied with acapella singing or with traditional Russian instruments including garmoshka, treshotki, lozhki (spoons) or the balalaika, a three-stringed instrument, Russian favorite.
video "From the evening…" Russian round dance performed by Irina Zagornova, Natasha Smirnov, Misha Smirnov
video Korobushka or Korobeiniki or The Peddlers or Peddler Box or Korobochka This lyric folk song and dance has been a Russian favorite for 150 years. A countryside peddler has a basket filled with attractive prints and brocades. At first-sight he falls in love with a pleasant girl. He is ready to lay at her feet all his worldly goods for a glance from her dark eyes and a kiss from her ruby-red-lips (by hallinan at tf). Lyrics are by the great poet N. Nekrasov
The young girl explains to her boyfriend how he should behave: "You have to bring me gifts, take me out all the time, you should not kiss me, but only hug"...
Somebody sent me this question about a dance that appears early in the novel and movie "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy. The question was if this dance is real, and if so, what are its origins?
If you know anything about this dance, or do you have suggestions about who could have information about this please post your opinion to Russian dance disscussion group hosted on Google server.
The count danced well and knew it. But his partner could not and did not want to dance well. Her enormous figure stood erect, her powerful arms hanging down (she had handed her reticule to the countess), and only her stern but handsome face really joined in the dance. What was expressed by the whole of the count's plump figure, in Marya Dmitrievna found expression only in her more and more beaming face and quivering nose. But if the count, getting more and more into the swing of it, charmed the spectators by the unexpectedness of his adroit maneuvers and the agility with which he capered about on his light feet, Marya Dmitrievna produced no less impression by slight exertions- the least effort to move her shoulders or bend her arms when turning, or stamp her foot- which everyone appreciated in view of her size and habitual severity.
The dance grew livelier and livelier. The other couples could not attract a moment's attention to their own evolutions and did not even try to do so. All were watching the count and Marya Dmitrievna. Natasha kept pulling everyone by sleeve or dress, urging them to "look at Papa!" though as it was they never took their eyes off the couple. In the intervals of the dance the count, breathing deeply, waved and shouted to the musicians to play faster. Faster, faster, and faster; lightly, more lightly, and yet more lightly whirled the count, flying round Marya Dmitrievna, now on his toes, now on his heels; until, turning his partner round to her seat, he executed the final pas, raising his soft foot backwards, bowing his perspiring head, smiling and making a wide sweep with his arm, amid a thunder of applause and laughter led by Natasha. Both partners stood still, breathing heavily and wiping their faces with their cambric handkerchiefs.
As for your question. It seems that "Daniel Cooper" (in Russian version, "Danilo Kupor") was an actual dance - to be more precise, contradance (sp.?), an old English dance characterized by quick and easy movements. F. F. Wiegel in his "Memoirs" (part 1, M., 1864, p. 62, first published in "Russky Vestnik", 1856) wrote that "one of these contradances was named a Danilo Kupor, probably after its composer, a certain Englishman Cooper".
Love in the Tub (per Malcolm:This is a Missouri text noted in 1910, for which no tune was recorded. There are a number of broadside examples (Love in a tub; or, the Old miser outwitted), but none of the accessible ones name a tune. However, Claude M. Simpson (The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music, 1966) mentions a broadside entitled A New Song called Love in a Tub (c. 1683), which was sung to the tune of Daniel Cooper. Now, this may be a completely different song; but it seems to be the nearest we are likely to get. Midi made from the notation given in Playford's Dancing Master (9th edition, 1695, reproduced in Simpson's book), with the caveat that this is only a guess at a tune for this particular text.)
First official record of Russian dancing is related to year 907 when Great Russian Prince Oleg (Vechshiy Oleg) celebrated his victory over Greeks in Kiev. During the Gala Dinner 16 male dancers dressed as bears and four bears dressed as Russian dancers performed for the guests. After the dinner was over Great Prince commanded to release the bears into the wild and to execute all the dancers. As it became clear later on, Vechshiy Oleg, who was purblind, has mistaken the dancers for the ambassadors from the Northern Tribes ("Severyane") who owned him a few hundred skins of marten - Russian tiger-cat... read more
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Al Sandoval, the 2010 and 2012 Texas League Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year, just completed his 12th year in the strength and conditioning field and his 11th season in professional baseball. Al is currently the AAA Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Round Rock Express, the Texas Rangers Texas League affiliate. Prior to joining the Rangers as the High A S&C Coach in 2017, he worked for the Los Angeles Angels for 5 years. First as the AA coach from 2012-13 and later as the Minor League Strength and Conditioning Coordinator from 2014-16. His first job in pro baseball was as a Minor League Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Colorado Rockies. Al was the Rockies Rookie Ball coach in 2007 and the AA coach from 2008-11.
A native of Colorado, Al graduated from Pueblo East High School in 2004, where he earned 4 letters in baseball. After high school, he attended Baton Rouge Community College in Baton Rouge, LA where he lettered in baseball before enrolling at Colorado State University – Pueblo when he earned a BS degree in Exercise Science in 2008 and 3 varsity letters in baseball. While at CSU – Pueblo, Al gained valuable experience by working at graduate assistant in baseball 2007.
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