About the Dances

Gadi Bitton's Salamati has Persian music and a Persian singer. He's singing about him sitting in the bar ordering a drink and trying to impress the girl next to him.

Avi Peretz' Od Nashuv is a new dance to Jim Horton's song from the sound track of a famous movie "North to Alaska."

The original singer is not Jewish nor the song is not about Israel or anything else, Daklon made it Jewish by keeping the tune and writing new words about returning to the home land.

Victor Gabai's dance Ani Lo Me'Ohav was a song by Australian group Air Supply, translated recently to Hebrew and sung by an Israeli singer (Kochav Nolad).

Siman She'ata Tza'ir is a 1979 dance by Eliyahu Gamliel. It's a traditional Irish folk song about highway robbery and romantic betrayal, called "Whiskey in the Jar". The Hebrew is a completely new version, not a translation.*

All our early songs and dances from Gurit Kadmon and Rivkah Shturman in the 1940's were to Russian songs. Krakoviak, Mazurkah, Cherkessia kfulah, Troikah, Karaboushkah were all foreign songs.