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The dance was created in 1937 for a festival to celebrate the discovery of water in the desert after a seven-year search. The choreographer was Else I. Dublon. [1] The dance is sometimes known as "Ushavtem Mayim", after the first words of the lyrics, or simply just "Mayim", but "Mayim Mayim" is the original and most common name.
It has become an icon of Jewish and Israeli folk dance. It can be performed to many of the traditional klezmer and Israeli folk songs — archetypally to the music of Hava Nagila. This is the most common dance done at Jewish life cycle joyous events such as weddings and bar and bat mitzvahs.
The Horah is a Jewish circle dance typically danced to the music of Hava Nagila. It is traditionally danced at Jewish weddings and other joyous occasions in the Jewish community. [ 5 ] The popularity of Horah in Israel is attributed by some to the Romanian Jewish dancer Baruch Agadati .
Mizrahi music (Hebrew: מוזיקה מזרחית muzika mizrachit Hebrew pronunciation: [ˈmuzika mizraˈχit], "Eastern music/Oriental music") refers to a music genre in Israel that combines elements from the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe; and is mostly performed by Israelis of Mizrahi Jewish descent. [1]
Klezmer (Yiddish: קלעזמער or כּלי־זמר) is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. [1] The essential elements of the tradition include dance tunes, ritual melodies, and virtuosic improvisations played for listening; these would have been played at weddings and other social functions.
Yemenite step (tza'ad Temani) is a popular dance performed Jews during weddings and other Jewish occasions. [1]The basic Tza'ad Temani step provides a swaying movement that changes the dancer's direction of motion, although the dancer may face forward throughout the step.
Abraham Zevi Idelsohn (1882–1938), a professor at Hebrew University, began cataloging all known Jewish music and teaching classes in musical composition; one of his students was a promising cantorial student, Moshe Nathanson, who with the rest of his class was presented by the professor with a slow, melodious, 19th-century chant (niggun or ...
"Erev Shel Shoshanim" (English: Evening of Lilies or Evening of Roses; the Hebrew word shoshana has been identified with both flowers [1]) is a poetic Hebrew love song. Its melody is often used as wedding music in Jewish weddings.