Dimna Juda - Димна Јуда (Macedonia)

Dimna Juda
Macedonia

Notes by Andrew Carnie October 28, 2001

This dance is a variant dance done to the slow music at the beginning of the dance suite Kopačka. I learned this variant from Judy Silver in Toronto. This is not the same dance as the one as traditionally called "kopačka I"

Hands in W-position.

Bar 1 Step R in LOD, Cross L over R
Bar 2 Step R to R, Touch L next to R
Bar 3 Step L to L Touch R
Bars 4-12 repeat bars 1-3 three more times
Bar 13-15 repeat bars 1-3
Bar 16 repeat bar 2
Bar 17 Step L to L, cross R in front of L
Bar 18 repeat bar 3
Bar 19 repeat bar 2
Bar 20 repeat bar 3

(or in other words: 4 x step step step touch step touch, and 2 x step step step touch step touch step touch).


Dimna Juda mamo, grad gradila x3 Димна Јуда мамо, град Драдила
Na planina mamo na Vlaina x2 На планина мамо на влајина

/Što je kolje mamo pobivala. што је коље мамо побивала
Sve ergenje, mamo, za glavenje. / x2 Све ергенје мамо эа глвенје

/Što je priče, mamo, zapričala. што је приче мамо эапричала
Se devojke, mamo za maženje/ x2 Се девојке, мамо эа маженје

Dimna Juda, mother, built a castle
on a mountain, mother, on Vlajna
What she drove, mother, for piles
where young batchelors, mother, hearty lads
What she thatched, mother, for roofs,
were Maidens, Mother, ready for giving in Marriage.