brooklyn circle sher

[@leonardkoenick2165]

Thank you so much for this. It brings happy tears of memories. My father, z”l, would teach and lead this nearly identical dance at family simchas and at meetings of our Koenick Cousins Club he started to keep his immigrant family of brothers and sisters together.

[@davidm587]

When was this danced ?

[@dellaroux]

Interesting, the figures match those known in other formats as "Duck for the Oyster, Dive for the Clam." Provenace is always such an interesting question!

[@pearlshifer1776]

love Steve Weintraub! Danced with him in the Poconos at Block and Hexter, and in Brooklyn at Grand Army Plaza!

[@dancinstevechicago]

I'm not easy to understand, but the actual name I give to this is Workmen's Circle Sher (Arbeter Ring Sher) because the woman I learned it from danced it a a Workmen's Circle summer camp.

[@justinbryant1713]

What is this song called?

[@dancinstevechicago]

actually, Larry, the whole dance takes about 15 minutes- and I do it with groups all the time. I describe it as "a party with 7 of your friends"

[@LarryGastropoleau]

This video consists of one eighth of the dance. Nobody has ever managed to do the whole thing. It's like those monks who walk a labyrinth that would take 400 years to finish, symbolising how our time on earth is insignificant in the big scheme of things.

[@barbgruber]

LarryGastropoleau yeah, but no one in my family has known how to do the last part of this-we always called it the sherele-since my Aunt Bertha died. This is great!