Word: lezghinka
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...band struck up a Caucasian lezghinka, Khrushchev shoved Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev toward First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan. "Dance, you two," he said. Rising to the occasion, Brezhnev whipped out a white handkerchief, clapped it over his head and swayed through the girl's part with Mikoyan. Pointing to Mikoyan, Khrushchev quipped: "He's a good dancer and that's why we keep...
Also in the tour repertory: The Partisans, an episode in the lives of a group of World War II guerrilla fighters, in which the black-clad dancers move in startling imitation of galloping horsemen to the music of a Georgian Lezghinka; Spring Dances from the Ukrainian Suite, which opens with a slow, weaving dance evocation of the melancholy a Ukrainian girl feels when her lover leaves for the front, ends with a bravura blaze of tremendous Gopak leaps as the lover returns triumphant to the village. In contrast with scenes more or less mirroring Soviet life, there are evocations...
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