Today I would like to share with you a map that a colombian friend sent me. I was quite surprised when I saw there are so variety of our Polish dances! And that I know only few... Krakowiak, polonez, kujawiak, oberek...
There are something I want to comment. I don't know where should I place all the polka's we learn! We have polka of Nowy Sącz, Rzeszów or Lublin and a ten or more other: polka dzwon (polka bell), polka kucana (squated polka) can be examples of that. In the case of polka from Lublin, it may be in included in Lubelskie tańce ludowe (Lublin's folk dances). It seems that the region is pretty important when we talk about dances, not only in Colombia, but in Poland too.
I really invite you to watch the videos that offers the map. You can find them when you click in one of the white points. The most spectacular one is zbójnicki, where the men jump with, I don't know, a type of axe, I think, called ciupaga. I recommend you also the video of kujawiak. The group that show it, Mazowsze, is one of the most popular in Poland. And of course polonez... In the middle of the map, in the letter O, there are other point with one of the most beautiful scene of the movie Pan Tadeusz.
I hope you enjoyed :)
