A Hop, a Skip, and a Jump!
Where's it From?
Name that Dance
What's it all about?
Who, What, When, Where, and Why?
100
Known as the grapevine step in most dance forms, in Israeli dance it has a different name.
What is the Mayim step?
100
The Hora originally came from this country.
What is Romania?
100
This was the very 1st Israeli Dance!
What is Hora Agadati?
100
The song this dance is choreographed to talks about the wonderful aspects of our NCJHS community!
What is the NCJHS Alma Mater?
100
This is the year the first Israeli dance was created.
When is 1924?
200
This dance step is from Russia, and is very difficult to spell!
What is the Tzerchessia step?
200
A dance that has Debka in its name is probably in the style of what cultural folk dance?
What is Arabic Folk Dancing?
200
This dance's fire-y name makes it an appropriate companion to s'mores and summer-camp songs.
What is Hora Medura?
200
The lyrics of this dance come from Psalm 92, and talk about how the "righteous will flourish like palms and grow tall like the cedars in Lebanon."
What is Tzadik Katamar?
200
This is the year Mayim Mayim was choreographed.
When is 1937?
300
This is the name of the step you are doing if you place one heel on the floor, then step on to that same foot.
What is the Debka step?
300
The dance Shabbat Menucha is in a style of dancing from this country (hint: it has a lot of steps in it that have this country's name in them).
What is Yemen?
300
The lyrics of the song for this dance include the words "Tovu Ohaleinu," for which the mondegreen "Tofu on the Table" is often substituted.
What is Nigun Atik?
300
This left-footed dance is the perfect way to start your day.
What is Boker?
300
This red-headed Persion choreographer's signature line dances include both Hafinali and Suddenly.
Who is Orly Setareh?
400
This step was named after a dance, and consists of six counts: side-together-side-behind-side-front
What is the Rona step?
400
This country is the origin of the music to a lip-smacking line dance that includes lots of elbowing movements.
What is Turkey? (the dance is Turkish Kiss)
400
This dance invokes the four elements- earth, air, fire, and water- both in its lyrics and in the movements of the dance. And it invokes confusion and misdirection when it starts to speed up!
What is Adama Veshamayim?
400
This dance is a hoppin' good time, and speaks in two languages about the promise of peace.
What is Salaam?
400
This happy-go-lucky teacher/choreographer's rules of life include "never refuse water" and "always take the stairs." If she hasn't taught you portmanteaus or what egg salad is, she'll have you convinced that "you don't have to know a dance to do a dance."
Who is Erica Goldman?
500
This step consists of three movements, can be done "right" or "left" (or "wrong") and can be hyphenated with -pivot and -turn.
What is the Yemenite Step?
500
The dance Sieben Sieben is based on a song performed in the Eurovision contest by a star-wearing performer from this country, which is right next to Russia. Don't be fooled by the German words in the song, and Czech yourself before you say any country that wasn't part of the USSR!
What is the Ukraine?
500
This "sunny" line dance was the first non-circle dance we learned this year, and halfway through it you get to be a superstar!
What is Shemesh?
500
This quasi-Yemenite-style dance's title is an Arabic slang word used in Hebrew to mean "let's go!" or more accurately, "what's taking so long, we're going to be late if you don't get a move on!"
What is Yalla?
500
This Israeli choreographer runs the biggest session in Israel every week at Tel Aviv University, and churns out new dances at a higher rate than anyone else. You've already learned Olam, Tagidu La, Yesh Sham Bama, and Adama Veshamayim- all are his, and he has a few hundred more.
Who is Gadi Bitton?
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