Jewish dance

HORAH is a popular traditional Jewish dance, performed at special occasions like weddings and festivals in Israel and many other East European countries. Horah is a circle dance, performed to traditional Jewish songs like Hava Nagila and Klezmer. The Horah dance is performed in many variations. During the Horah, the guests lift the bride and the groom (considered as 'the king and the queen of the night') above their shoulders. While sitting on the chairs, the couple hold on to the ends of a handkerchief. The guests form a huge circle around the couple and dance in clockwise and anticlockwise directions. They perform various foot movements like kicks and other grapevine-like steps. This is accompanied by bopping up and down as well as weaving. The circle of dancers come in close to the couple and go out again.
MIZINKE is another famous Jewish wedding dance, performed particularly at the wedding reception. It is derived from the Krenzl dance. Krenzl is a Jewish custom: the bride's mother is honored by a crown at her last daughter's marriage. The bride's mother sits at the center of a circle. She is crowned with flowers and her daughters and guests dance around her on the rhythm of a lively music band. Mezinke Tanz is performed in honor of both parents, whose last son or daughter is getting married. Both parents sit at the center of a circle and the guests gift them wedding flowers.
Towards the end of the wedding reception, the guests and the close family members seat the bride in the center of the dance floor and dance around her. They also sing songs that praise her. This is a traditional custom of Jewish marriages.
One of the traditional folk dances of the Jews is the ISRAELI FOLK DANCE. Israeli folk dances are a combination of the various folk dances of Eastern Europe, which were introduced in Israel by Socialist-Zionists in the early 20th century. "Mayim" meaning "water", is an Israeli folk dance that is performed to commemorate the discovery of water at Kibbutz Na’an. Israeli Jewish dances are similar to western dances and are very lively.
YEMENITE is a traditional Jewish dance, which came into being when the Jews were not allowed to dance in public in Yemen. Yemenite dance has stationary hopping and posturing and could be performed in confined space. Today, Yemenite is a popular dance performed by the Jews during weddings and other Jewish occasions. This dance has just three steps with a short pause on the last step. It is "quick, quick and slow". There are, however, many variations in the Yemenite.