Favorite dance

[drogin]

What's your favorite dances?

I can't really decide...it's either Irish River Dance, or Kavkaz Shalaxo.

Shalaxo(obviously kind of improvised)
[YOUTUBE]ZKRs8AVNCJo[/YOUTUBE]

River dance:
[YOUTUBE]W22gpBv00gg[/YOUTUBE]


I think I will actually have to pick Shalaxo, as Riverdance, however impressive it looks, strike me as a bit gay too

[rashka]

That Shalaxo dance looks like that Borat dancing video.

[drogin]

That Shalaxo dance looks like that Borat dancing video.

Jews dancing Shalaxo. Kind of cool when they synhcronize
[YOUTUBE]nur_u--Hl8g[/YOUTUBE]

[Illancha]

What about the Kavkaz Lezginka? By far the best dance in my opinion, but then again I'm biased. You can be the judge.

Check the link in my signature.

[drogin]

What about the Kavkaz Lezginka? By far the best dance in my opinion, but then again I'm biased. You can be the judge.

Check the link in my signature.

Oh, it's cool too, for sure. I find most dances from Kavkaz quite awesome.
But maybe I've become biased too because all the admixture-calculators put me as 5-10% lezgin or ingush

[Illancha]

Oh, it's cool too, for sure. I find most dances from Kavkaz quite awesome.
But maybe I've become biased too because all the admixture-calculators put me as 5-10% lezgin or ingush

Ingush, seriously? Wow, how is that even possible if you're from Norway?

The Ingush are my ethnic brothers by the way. I'm Chechen and we both fall under the category of Waynakh (Vainakh).

Both the Ingush and Lezgins dance the Lezginka. The Shalaxo is a more Armenian, Azeri and Georgian thing.

[drogin]

Ingush, seriously? Wow, how is that even possible if you're from Norway?

The Ingush are my ethnic brothers by the way. I'm Chechen and we both fall under the category of Waynakh (Vainakh).

Both the Ingush and Lezgins dance the Lezginka. The Shalaxo is a more Armenian and Georgian thing.

No idea. My dad showed no such admixture readings, so either I inherited a large ammount of caucasian/west-asian DNA from both, or my mom got some admixture from there, for some reason.

The admixture calculators give me almost all the caucasus-ethnicities.
Usually between 5-10%. Balkars, Chechen, Adyghe, Ingush, Lezgin. It even suggested Armenian or Georgian, but at a much lower % and error-rate further down the list.

I'm not sure if it's possible to get that mixture into Norway that many generations ago, or if I just have a bit more west-asian DNA than average...waiting for my moms result to find out

[Pontios]

Serra, Pontian dance.
[YOUTUBE]oY6IF8BSTRg[/YOUTUBE]

(No this is not Turkish, the Turkish dances are Pontian)

[rashka]

I like Serbian folk dancing.
[youtube]YFOU87LAnfM[/youtube]

[rashka]

I noticed that the caucasus dances look the same from Georgia to Ossetia to Chechnya to Armenia.