Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Feruško Oro (Macedonia)

Feruško Oro
(Macedonia)

Notes by Andrew Carnie
Dunav attributes this dance to Rene Gosse.
a video of this dance can be found at http://www.dunav.org.il/video/024_ferusko.mpg
Music for this dance can be found at http://www.dunav.org.il/music/macedonia/092_Ferusko.mp3

4/4
Hands in W position.

Part 1.
Bar 1, facing center do a lift (čukče) on the left foot (1) Step R to R (2), step L across in front of R (3), step back onto R in place (4)
Bar 2 repeat 1with opp footwork and direction
Bar 3, repeat bar 1, counts 1 and 2, then Step Left across in front of R (3) close R (&), step Left across in front of R (4)

Part 2, when music speeds up.
As in part 1, but replace each čukče with two hops (counted ah 1) and replacing steps with leaps, arms can come down to V position.

1 comments:

Artema said...

Hello Andrew,

looking at the video, and dancing along, it seems to me that the rhythmic breakdown of the fast part is (1,2,3&,4), with the two hops each taking one full beat.

Thanks for your work,
Maurizio