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Små grodorna (Swedish for "The Little Frogs") is a traditional Swedish dance and song traditionally performed at midsummer, where the participants dance around the maypole. The dance involves movements that illustrate body parts that frogs lack, namely "ears" ( öron ) and "tails" ( svansar ).
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There is an English translation by Mary Stewart Evans, edited by Julia Sutton, in print with Dover Publications. It contains numerous woodcuts of dancers and musicians and includes many dance tabulations in which extensive instructions for the steps are lined up next to the musical notes, a significant innovation in dance notation at that time.
Biyelgee (Mongolian Cyrillic: Биелгээ) or Bii (Mongolian Cyrillic: Бий), is a unique form of dance, originated from the nomadic way of life in Mongolia. Almost all regions populated by different ethnic groups of Mongolia have their specific forms of Biyelgee. The Western Mongols are particularly famous for their Biyelgee dance.
It may trace back to a song performed at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair [3] by a dancer named Little Egypt, who was filmed in 1896 by Thomas Edison for the Coochee Coochee Dance film short. [4] [5] [6] The song was created by Sol Bloom. [7] One explanation of the etymology attributes it to the French word coucher, meaning to lie down. [8]
"Iko Iko" became a European hit again in 2001 after being covered by the German dance act Captain Jack. An adaptation by Papua New Guinea artist Justin Wellington under the title " Iko Iko (My Bestie) " featuring the Solomon Island duo Small Jam became an international hit in 2021 after a successful TikTok challenge.
I did some Google searches. I restricted the results to English only as "dos-a-dos" has a widespread use in Spanish and possibly French that literally mean "back-to-back" (and not in a dance context). As is shown on the Dos-a-dos disamibguation page, the term "dos-a-dos" has quite a few meanings (and not in a dance context). Therefore I ...