Main types of Russian folk dance (Section three) (1970)

Russian rural landscape, panorama.

Round dance on the river bank with the performance of Russian folk songs.

Fragments of Russian popular prints depicting folk festivities with dancing.

Fragments of popular prints depicting a round dance and gudoshniki musicians.

Samples of patterns and ornaments of Russian lace.

Students of the Moscow Choreographic School perform a circular round dance, holding hands.

Round dance "Circle in a Circle".

Two circles of the round dance next to each other.

Round dance in the form of "Eight".

Performance of a linear form of round dance.

Formations of round dances in the form of "Gate", "Snake", "Basket", "Star".

Types of ornaments of Russian lace.

Panorama and views of a village in the Arkhangelsk region.

Women in folk costumes walk along the village street.

The beginning of the round dance, the participants move from one pair to another.

The second part of the festivities is "recruitment", an invitation to the round dance.

The beginning of the round dance to the song, the participants dance in a round dance, holding each other's scarves.

Rural round dance in the form of "Snake".

A fragment of a wooden carved decoration of one of the houses in the Arkhangelsk region.

Women dance in a round dance in the form of "Basket" to a Russian folk song, faces of the participants.

Panorama of part of the village, round dance in pairs.

Landscape of central Russia, panorama of part of the birch forest.

A pond on the edge of the forest.

Collective farmers of the village of Sekirino in the Ryazan region perform a round dance with dancing in a meadow near the forest, to the song "There is a forge on the mountain".

Birch trunks.

Forest landscape in the Bryansk region.

Women from the village of Dorozovo perform a round dance to the song "Zapletisya, pleten".

Types of linear-circular round dance (above).

Performing a round dance in the form of "Vorotets", without breaking apart.

South Russian rural landscape.

Performance of the tank round dance "Loop" by collective farmers of the village of Begichevo.

Features of the South Russian round dance, the position of the hands of the dancers.

The movement of the round dance along a complex curve, the dancers' feet beat out a drum.

Performance of the round dance-tank, in which the participants are connected by belts.

The participants of the round dance perform the figure "Vorottsa".

Faces of the participants of the round dance, performing the figure "Carousel".

View of the round dance during the performance of "Carousel".

Russian wooden toys depicting a bear and a blacksmith.

Performance of the ancient northern game round dance "Scoundrels" by the residents of the village of Karpogory.

Women tie the men's hands with colored ribbons, leave in pairs.

The men stand with their hands tied with ribbons.

Residents of the northern village of Karpogory perform the round dance "Scoundrels".

Women sing a song, men sing, standing opposite with their hands tied with ribbons.

Women's faces.

Men's hands tied with colored ribbons, women take ribbons off the men's hands.

Men and women split into pairs and dance in a circle while singing a song.

Russian wooden toy.

Residents of the village of Rybinskoye in the Kalinin region perform the round dance "The Barin was Walking" in a clearing in a birch forest.

A participant in the round dance - the "groom" dances around the circle and chooses "relatives" - dance partners in the center of the round dance.

The "groom" dances with the "relatives".

Types of round dance, the face of one of the participants.

Straw Russian toys.

Collective farmers of the village of Degtyanyye Borki in the Ryazan region perform the old round dance "Drema".

Two participants in the center of the round dance.

The man in the center of the round dance chooses a partner for himself.

Examples of Russian wooden toys.

Women from a Bryansk village perform a satirical round dance "About the priest", faces of the participants in the round dance.

A soloist in the center of the round dance, depicting characters.

Examples of balalaikas.

A type of rural festival.

Dance of the festival participants.

Demonstration in the classroom of a female solo dance.

Parts of the dance - exit, development, culmination and completion of the dance.

Construction of a male solo dance: beginning, development, finale, release of the performer's energy in the dance.

Demonstration of a pair dance.

A pair dance is a competition.

One of the partners begins a "walk", offers the opponent a "knee".

The second partner repeats the offered "knee" and gives his own.

The partners each give their own "knee", improvise.

Dance of residents of the northern village of Dorogozhskoye on the footbridge in front of the club to the accompaniment of an accordion.

A man begins a pair dance.

A partner challenges an opponent, a dance-off begins.

Mixed pair game dance with a challenge for a change.

Variants of a mixed pair dance.

Mixed pair dance inside a circle, to a song.

Pair women's dance-off.

Residents of the village of Novoye Goldaevo in the Ryazan Region perform a dance-off with ditties.

A mass dance-off with improvisations and ditties to the accompaniment of a button accordion and an accordion.

Wooden painted dishes.

Performing a group dance with a common pattern of movements.

Residents of the village of Dolzhonkovo in the Kursk region perform a group dance with songs.

Performing a group dance to kuvykly - reed pipes, faces of women playing the kuvykly.

Demonstration of the dance composition (above).

Flowers in the meadow.

Faces of villagers playing folk musical instruments.

Performance of the Kursk dance "Timonya".

The participants dance in threes, legs and faces of the dancers.

The village orchestra plays.

A version of a complex composition of a Russian group dance, staged in the class of a choreographic school.

The participants perform precisely assigned patterns.

Young people from the village of Dubrovka in the Bryansk region perform a complex group dance.

Types of group dance figures.

Performance of the northern dance "Eight", accompanied by a song.

A group of women draws an eight with their dance, faces of the dancing women.

Performance of the dance "Eight" by residents of the village of Dorogory.

Performance of dance figures by its participants, the face of the accordionist.

Russian folk clay toys.

Performance of the Russian northern quadrille by residents of the village of Dorogory, paired formation and individual figures of the quadrille.

Demonstration of the linear basis of the complex Dorogory quadrille.

Performance of the Dorogor linear quadrille.

Circular figure of the Dorogor quadrille.

Visual demonstration of the construction of a linear quadrille in a class of choreographic school with a different number of couples.

The main composition of the linear quadrille.

Performance of a "corner" quadrille by residents of the village of Rybinskoye, Kalinin region, with couples moving diagonally.

An example of the construction of a "square" quadrille (above).

An example of a circular form of construction of a quadrille, the dancers walk in a circle.

Performance of a circular Kurapovka quadrille by residents of the village of Kurapovka, Kuibyshev region, to the tune of a Russian song.

Performance of figures of the Kurapovka circular quadrille.

River landscapes.

Performance of a linear Pokhvisnevskaya quadrille on the river bank by artists of a dance ensemble.

Quadrille figures.

Legs of the dancers.

Performance of Russian folk dances by various professional groups and ensembles.