Concert of Russian dance and music at Penn State University. Ensemble Barynya tour 2008

In November 2008 New York based Russian folk music and dance ensemble Barynya dancers Valentina Kvasova, Alexey Maltsev, Alexander Rudoy, Anna Brovkina and Russian folk singer and musician Mikhail Smirnov performed five concerts at Hazleton, Lehman, Schuykill, Dunmore, and DuBois campuses of Penn State University in Pennsylvania. The program included Russian, Cossack, Russian Gypsy ROma, Ukrainian, Jewish Klezmer, and Siberian traditional dancing: "Kalinka", "Kazachok", "Russian Sailors Dance", "Barynya", "Metelitsa" ("The Snowstorm"), "Russian Quadrille", "Nanaisky wrestling dance", "Hopak", "Kazanka", "Two guitars", "Kai One" (Gypsy Roma), "Lehaim" (Jewish Klezmer).

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Russian folk dance and song "Barynya"

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Cossack folk song and dance

   
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Ukrainian traditional dance Hopak

     
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Valentina Kvasova is singing "Endless Road"

Singer and dancer Valentina Kvasova is singing Russian Gypsy (Roma) folk song "Endless Road" - "Dorogoi dlinnoyu" known in English as "Those Were the Days". Цыганская народная песня "Дорогой Длинною".

Valentina Kvasova

Russian Gypsy Roma (Tsygansky) folk song

V.Kvasova and M.Smirnov performing Gypsy Roma folk song

"Korobeiniki" or "Korobeyniki", or "Korobushka", or "The Peddlers" (Russian: "Коробейники")

Mikhail Smirnov is playing garmoshka and singing a popular Russian folk song based on a poem with the same name written in 1861 by Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov in 1861. Korobeyniki were peddlers selling candies, buttons, etc in pre-revolutionary Russia. The song is known for its dance-friendly structure and ever-increasing tempo. "Korobeiniki" was one of the three tunes featured in the Game Boy version of the video game Tetris and has become closely associated with the game in Western popular culture.

Mikhail Smirnov performing folk song Korobushka

"Nanaika" - Sibirsky kids wrestling dance

Ensemble Barynya presents Nanaisky traditional game "Wrestling of two kids", original idea of great Russian choreographer Igor Aleksandrovich Moiseev. Нанайская народная игра "Борьба двух малышей", идея выдающегося русского хореографа Моисеева Игоря Александровича.

 
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"Spring Birds of Voronezh"

dancers Valentina Kvasova and Anna Brovkina

"Danila Cooper" - Russian Nobility Dance

"Daniel Cooper" (also sometimes spelled as "Danila Kuper" or "Daniel Kupor") is the dance of the Russian Nobility during Napoleonic wars (in Russian version, "Danilo Kupor") was an actual dance - to be more precise, contradance, an old English dance characterized by quick and easy movements. "Daniel Cooper" dance was briefly mentioned in world-known novel by Leo Tolstoy "War and Piece": The dance grew livelier and livelier. The other couples could not attract a moment's attention to their own evolutions and did not even try to do so. All were watching the count and Marya Dmitrievna. Natasha kept pulling everyone by sleeve or dress, urging them to "look at Papa!" though as it was they never took their eyes off the couple...

 
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Jewish dance "Le Chaim" - To Life!

Alexander Rudoy performing Jewish folk dance Lehaim

RUSSIAN DANCE

First official record of Russian dancing is related to year 907 when Great Russian Prince Oleg (Vechshiy Oleg) celebrated his victory over Greeks in Kiev. During the Gala Dinner 16 male dancers dressed as bears and four bears dressed as Russian dancers performed for the guests. After the dinner was over Great Prince commanded to release the bears into the wild and to execute all the dancers.

As it became clear later on, Vechshiy Oleg, who was purblind, has mistaken the dancers for the ambassadors from the Northern Tribes (Severyane) who owned him a few hundred skins of marten - Russian tiger-cat... read full article

"Daniel Cooper" (also sometimes spelled as "Danila Kuper" or "Daniel Kupor") is the dance of the Russian Nobility during Napoleonic wars (in Russian version, "Danilo Kupor") was an actual dance - to be more precise, contradance, an old English dance characterized by quick and easy movements. F.F. Wiegel in his "Memoirs" (part 1, M., 1864, p. 62, first published in "Russky Vestnik", 1856) wrote that "One of these contradances was named a Danilo Kupor, probably after its composer, a certain Englishman Cooper".

Daniel Cooper dance was briefly mentioned in world-known novel by Leo Tolstoy "War and Piece": The dance grew livelier and livelier. The other couples could not attract a moment's attention to their own evolutions and did not even try to do so. All were watching the count and Marya Dmitrievna. Natasha kept pulling everyone by sleeve or dress, urging them to "look at Papa!" though as it was they never took their eyes off the couple. In the intervals of the dance the count, breathing deeply, waved and shouted to the musicians to play faster. Faster, faster, and faster; lightly, more lightly, and yet more lightly whirled the count, flying round Marya Dmitrievna, now on his toes, now on his heels; until, turning his partner round to her seat, he executed the final pas, raising his soft foot backwards, bowing his perspiring head, smiling and making a wide sweep with his arm, amid a thunder of applause and laughter led by Natasha. Both partners stood still, breathing heavily and wiping their faces with their cambric handkerchiefs.
"That's how we used to dance in our time, ma chere," said the count.
"That was a Daniel Cooper!" exclaimed Marya Dmitrievna, tucking up her sleeves and puffing heavily.

In 2008 Russian dance ensemble Barynya from New York re-introduced "Danila Kooper" dance during the Russian Nobility Ball 2008 in New York City (Hotel Pierre, Grand Ball Room), May 9th, 2008... read more, view video

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Legendary Russian Gypsy singer Zhenia Shevchenko and ensemble Barynya DVD. Concert was recorded in New York City on January 26, 2008. Fifteen performers: six dancers, three singers, six musicians. Performers: Sergey Ryabtsev - violin, Mikhail Smirnov - garmoshka, vocal, guitar, Alex Siniavski - Gypsy guitar, balalaika, Alexander Menshikov - Russian Gypsy singer, tambourine, Leonid Bruk - balalaika-contrabass, Gennady Gutkin - bayan, Lev Zabeginsky - balalaika, Andrij Cybyk - dancer, choreographer, Ganna Makarova - dancer, Olga Chpitalnaia - dancer, Vitaliy Verterich - dancer, choreographer, Valentina Kvasova - dancer, singer, Mikhail Nesterenko - dancer, Victoria Pichurova - singer, Gabriel Yakubov - Gypsy dancer. Musical instruments: Balalaika, garmoshka, bayan, violin, balalaika-contrabass, Gypsy guitar, Russian 7 string guitar. Program of Russian Gypsy songs, music, Russian, Gypsy, Cossack and Ukrainian folk dancing... more info, video samples, order

This DVD was recorded at live performance of Russian music and dance ensemble Barynya (Artistic Director/Founder Mikhail Smirnov) in Lakeside, Ohio at the Hoover Auditorium in July 2007. List of performers: Mikhail Smirnov - vocal, garmoshka, guitar , Alex Siniavski - balalaika, Gypsy guitar, musical director, Andrij Cybyk - dancer, choreographer, Valentina Kvasova - dance captain, dancer, Leonid Bruk - balalaika contrabass , Alexander Menshikov - singer, tambourine, Victoria Pichurova - singer, Natalia Ejova - dancer, Natia Rtveliashvili - dancer, Stefan Kuziw - dancer, Alex Sizov - dancer.... more info, videoclips, order

This DVD is from live performance of Russian dance, song and music ensemble Barynya from the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin in October 2006. PROGRAM: Russian, Gypsy, Cossack, Ukrainian traditional dances, folk and popular songs, virtuoso performances on musical instruments with explanation of the program in English. INSTRUMENTS: balalaika, garmoshka, contrabass, buben, Gypsy and classic guitars... more info, videoclips, order

New York based Russian folk dance and music ensemble Barynya, 2004. Russian folk dances, songs, virtuoso performances on balalaika, bass-balalaika and garmoshka. Runtime: 1 hour, cover art: Anna Nagorskaya
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Ensemble Barynya, 1998. Live performance in cabaret "Moscow", Lexington Ave/54 street, New York City. Russian, Cossack, Ukrainian, Klezmer music and dances. Runtime: about 35 minutes.
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Runtime: 60 minutes. On this DVD ensemble Barynya dancers are performing Russian, Cossack, Gypsy and Ukranian folk dances including "Kalinka", "Katyusha", "Barynya", "Two Guitars" and others. more info, videoclips, order

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