Thursday, December 10, 2009

A wedding dance called "The Flying Dutchman"?

I've heard a lot of people talk about the Flying Dutchman dance which is done at weddings. There is a reference to it on Wikipedia and one website describes it as a dance which "was done with a man and two ladies, or a lady and two men, and involved the participants doing a 'do-si-do' with each other, while the music started slow and gradually got faster."



From what I gather it's a polka, not classical music as in the opera that is also titled "The Flying Dutchman".



Does anyone know what song is played for this dance and the steps performed in the dance???



A wedding dance called "The Flying Dutchman"?performing art center



I've seen "The Flying Dutchman" opera by R. Wagner live several times. In that opera (I'm going to sum up a few hours in one sentence), the woman falls in love with a cursed captain of a ghost ship who briefly gets to stop by on land every certain number of years (in order to find the true love that will save him.) But when the captain (due to a little misunderstanding) goes back out to sea without the woman, the woman throws herself off a cliff into the ocean in order to join him.



So I envision the bride standing on the banquet hall table and doing a swan dive into the guests who catch her and pass her around over the crowd, sort of like a mosh pit.



Well, it's a thought. I guess I don't know

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