Above: Collage of folk song festival pictures - from the opening ceremony. Hopefully the quality is clearer? From now on I'll make sure that these collages are not so blurry.
I was at a party yesterday exercising my right to participant observation - learning folk dances with friends from professional folk musicians and dancers. Many of the dances we learned were connected to a characteristic part of lithuanian life or culture. My favorite was the mushroom picking dance! two lines of dancers face each other, holding hands with the person opposite them, up high (as to make a long tunnel/tent). The dancers at the ends of this long tunnel duck down and run beneath the hands of their friends into the "tunnel", where they grab another friend, thus "picking a mushroom", and dragging them out.
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