Danse du Jour

[shanmonster]

This is an older video clip, and I can't help but wonder what the dancers are doing today. I doubt they can do even a quarter of what they did in this impressive demonstration of acrobatics and precision. Here we have a classical dance of the Ukrainian military. Enjoy!

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Comments

[nymphie.livejournal.com]

Interesting to see parallels to what we do in kung fu: sword flowers, cresent kicks, and sweeps.

[elanya.livejournal.com]

I bet you half of them have had knee replacements - or at least ned them:x


That was right awesome, although I have an unfortunate cultural conditioning to think of men skipping around (and they sure do a lot of skipping at the start) and... less than manly, Which is really not the reaction I expected to have to a bunch of cossacks sword-dancing.

Also makes me want to do a sword dance/fight even more!