Mazurka - video notes

[@alphaville4584]

Thank you so much!!! 🙏 I understand now what the friend who tried to teach me mazurka never managed to explain: simply « walk walk walk » between 2 « ma-zur-ka ». That’s so simple!

[@tomdewilde1]

2:33

[@vikkismith7497]

I guess that's why I love music.

[@Tirn0]

irk... ma position de couple est bien bizarre faudrait que je me redresse et que j'essaie moins de créer de l'espace entre ma cavalière et moi...

[@machdieduerzo]

This - very young - dance is so far away from the original Mazurka, it causes a lot of confusion. The steps are more similar to those of a Varsovienne, which is a combination of Mazurka and Waltz. So it might be useful to find a new name for this style. How about câliner-ka ? :)

[@patgoodacre2898]

it is a particular style of mazurka from Gascony, from the village of Samartin. It was discovered and revived in the 1970s by Pierre Corbefin and rapidly has rather taken over from all the other styles as the most poplular bal mazurka. There are of course many other styles from different parts of France and indeed Europe. I have a sense that the more energetic styles of the Morvan for example are experiencing a come-back.

[@bumbopower]

​@@patgoodacre2898 hello, whee can I find (trustfull) material about the different styles of mazurca. This on the video os very similar to a version from Cape Vert😅

[@patgoodacre2898]

@@bumbopower I'm afraid I don't know of any one source of information. The mazurka as far as I'm aware originated in Poland (but who knows, it's a syncopated 3-time and could have come from anywhere in the west). A friend recommended this site www.festivalmazurki.pl/en/home/

[@patgoodacre2898]

or this lamusdworski.wordpress.com/2018/06/26/mazurki/

[@flrn84791]

This was pretty stiff for a mazurka to be honest, but at least you teach it to start on the 1, I see so many people in bals starting on the 3... Also, the turn is usually on the 2nd step of mazurka, not during the walk which is more often in place.

[@DebiAWolf]

I love this video!! This is very similar to how I learned the basics of Mazurka in my dance class!!! Wonderful find for someone trying to teach their boyfriend lol!

[@gregorydyke5094]

Thanks! Good luck with the boyfriend-teaching :)

[@DebiAWolf]

@@gregorydyke5094 Thank you!! I’ll try my best haha!

[@gabischon9214]

Wo ist da die Kraft und der Schwung und die Energie der Mazurka. Im Tanzboden verschwunden 😔

[@Lionteg]

I am from Martinique, the country of the Mazurka and that's not...same for the music style...

[@WiltonHirsh]

Huuuuge thanks for making this!

[@brandonmacey964]

Bravo this helps with Chopin many thanks

[@Franck585]

Mi piacerebbe sapere se quel tizio sà cos' è la mazurka e se l' ha mai ballata?

[@rozanica]

Perche? Non confondere la mazurca che si balla in emiglia romagna ... mazurka= mazurek e un ballo polacco che permette di improvvisare...

[@zbyszkogafmyszczynski319]

da eto polskij taniec

[@cherryblack420]

I thought the mazurka was russian not french

[@secretasianman2531]

polish, actually

[@monikaziarkowska5863]

its polish

[@raphaelhellec4243]

No, we have the same in Brittany, but we dance only on the side and I dance since 55 years...

[@noemibassani4416]

Mazurka francese non è in questo conteggio!

[@andrzejadamowicz4354]

-To understand what Mazurka is, listen to Chopin's Mazurkas and find on internet some performances of "Zespół pieśni i tańca Mazowsze". You just play Russian music to dance something what is neither Russian nor Polish. Mazurka has rhythm as follows: tata, ta, ta | ta,ta,ta | ta, - , ta,tata | tata,ta,ta|. Napoleon could have brought Mazurka to France knowing it from the lavish splendor of banqueting halls in Warsaw but he might have been not as a good dancer as the warrior he was. In Poland we serve "fish in a Greek style" but none of the Greeks has ever heard of that. French Mazurka is just like the above mentioned Greek fish. That's where the rub is. ):

[@andrzejadamowicz4354]

Andrzej Adamowicz I can add some history on Mazurka. It was born in a cornfield. Observe a reaper at work and follow his movements. Tempo 1: two quick steps starting from left leg, tempo 2 - movement of the scythe to the left, movement 3 - scythe goes to the right side. It was the idea of the dance. Of course it was modified according to fantasy, temperament and age of the dancer. It was popular among the villagers, danced and sang willingly for centuries. In the19th century, Chopin while staying in a manor house in Mazovia, happened to listen to that music, he liked it and took notes of some tunes we can hear today. Later on Mazurka developed into a court-like dance called Mazur. It was a little slower than Mazurka but beautifully arranged. It was often danced by gentry. Russian officers occupying Poland transferred it to Russia - that's why it is very alike to the Polish dance. French Mazurka, as you call it, resembles a little bit "kujaviak", also a Polish dance but coming from Kujawy district.

[@dancecoder]

Французская мазурка - это уже не польский танец. Но на видео вообще не мазурка и звучащая музыка - не мазурка.

[@andrzejadamowicz4354]

Neither the music nor dance have anything in common with the Polish dance.

[@Tirn0]

Hi Polish people. Yes, the French Mazurka is very different from the Polish dance. But in the 19th century this dance was adopted by peasants throughout Europe and particularly in France, where they adapted it to their styles of music and ways of dancing, producing some really lovely results. In the French folk revival people have latched on to a slower form of mazurka, which I present in a very abstract and improvised form here. So it's not any of the French traditional mazurkas either. However, if you dance a (french) mazurka (one of the most popular dances) at any one of the thousands of french bal folk that happen every year, I can pretty much guarantee that you will dance some subset of what I'm presenting here.

[@dancecoder]

Tirn0 Sounds interesting. It just make dance name confusion. Mazurka is folk dance of Poland, the dance is from Mazovia region. At first it come to Russia at the beginning of XIX century. And now we know it as Russian Mazurka. Russian mazurka have the same steps, end may have another fugures and formations. Mazurka come to France later, it is desribed by Cellarius. Cellarius wrote we (franch) cant to dance it so expressive as Russians and Poles, we can't to do impovisation, so we will dance it more slowely with specific sequence of figures. He call it french mazurka. After Napoleon war it come to Russia. But it still have similar steps. At you wideo I cant to see natural mazurca steps. But you say it is french folk mazurka - it is changes all! In Russia we have traditional folk quadrilles, the parent of russian quadrille is French Quadrille. Russian quadrille doesnt looks like french quadrille, as you mazurka do not looks like russian or ballrum french mazurka.

[@Cantilius]

это - польский танец !