POLISH NATIONAL DANCES: POLONAISE

Polish symbol - the name of the Polish dance later polonaise a form of the name of the Polish polonaise was used in Poland until 1730 In the chronicles, literature, beautiful, noble and bourgeois until 1730 did not find the name of the Polish polonaise and dance.

(In 1622 this is the one time dance foot) News polonaise on the pre-1730 are based mainly on the relationship of foreigners. In a memorandum Chronicles of Silesia in 1406 listed the name of Polnischer Tanz. In 1574 during the coronation ceremony Henri Valois couples passed next to the throne consisted prostrate king.

With the above-mentioned information suggests that the observed dancing in the street Polish generally recognized in terms of the implementation of mobility was a type of dance involving walking.

Fan dance, pageant has developed from the eighteenth century Polish dance which in turn derives from a type of dance that exists in the eighteenth century, under the name of pedestrian or chmielowego resulting from the ceremonial dances rural wedding. Under the name American dance came to the repertoire of aristocratic manors.

Polonaise is a dance team. Couples line up one after another, after the boys left the girl on the right. Both faces turn to the direction of dance. Dancer gives tancerce right hand for which this puts his left hand. Joined hands in this way put forward slightly forward, parallel to the floor or on the breast height. Zginają arms slightly in the elbows.

External hands freely edited. Dancer must recognize the right hand of a dancer dress base left hand on hip or hold hands in the lampasach trousers. Profiles of dancing must be erect, head raised proudly.