Tsyganochka (Russian: Цыганочка, "Gypsy Girl") is a Russian folk dance stylized under the Russian Roma tunes. The music is in minor tonality, unusual in Russian folk dance, in 44 time signature.
Tsyganochka (Russian: Цыганочка, "Gypsy Girl") is a Russian folk dance stylized under the Russian Roma tunes.
01 · What it is
Dance
Live movement, rhythm, costume, or staged dramatic performance passed between generations.
02 · Where & name
Russia
Written in its own script on record as Цыганочка.
03 · How it is doing
□□□□ (Not yet assessed)
Documented in open cultural records, but no cited field assessment of its current vitality has been added here yet.
04 · Proof & reuse
2 cited sources
Every claim links to a public record below. Free to quote, teach, and share under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chapter Takeaways
MusicThe classic melody of Tsyganochka with Entrance was written in the 19th century by the director of a Russian Roma choir and composer Ivan Vasilievich Vasiliev, an ancestor of Nikolay Vasiliev, a singer of Russian Roma…
InfluenceThere is a 2008 Russian TV series "Цыганочка с выходом" (Eight episodes).
Common Questions Answered on Record
What is Tsyganochka in plain words?
Tsyganochka (Russian: Цыганочка, "Gypsy Girl") is a Russian folk dance stylized under the Russian Roma tunes. In local script on record, it is written Цыганочка.
Where is Tsyganochka practised or documented?
Sources on this page place Tsyganochka in Russia.
What is the current condition of Tsyganochka today?
□□□□ (Not yet assessed): Documented in open cultural records, but no cited field assessment of its current vitality has been added here yet.
How do I cite or share this Tsyganochka entry?
Cite as: "Tsyganochka." folkroom, https://folkroom.org/art-forms/tsyganochka, text CC BY-SA, with attribution.
Tsyganochka (Russian: Цыганочка, "Gypsy Girl") is a Russian folk dance stylized under the Russian Roma tunes. The music is in minor tonality, unusual in Russian folk dance, in 44 time signature.
In the common version called "Цыганочка с выходом" ("Tsyganochka with Entrance"), the tempo is initially slow and then gradually speeds up. During the slow introduction the dancer walks into the dance area, showing off, but without complicated dance figures and then gradually warms up. 1
Music
The classic melody of Tsyganochka with Entrance was written in the 19th century by the director of a Russian Roma choir and composer Ivan Vasilievich Vasiliev, an ancestor of Nikolay Vasiliev, a singer of Russian Roma songs. He wrote the melody "Цыганская венгерка" ("Gypsy Vengerka", "Hungarian Gypsy Dance") for guitar based on a verse with the same name by Apollon Grigoriev who himself was a great fan of Romani music, which became popular with Russian Roma choirs and based on which a dance was evolved, without particular choreography. Folk added the recognizable refrain "эх раз еще раз еще много-много раз" ("Eh, again, and once more, and many-many more times") into Grigoriev's verse or its variations, sometimes having little common with the original. 1
Influence
There is a 2008 Russian TV series "Цыганочка с выходом" (Eight episodes).
Vladimir Vysotsky performed a song "Эх, раз, еще раз..." in tsyganochka style in the 1967 film Brief Encounters. He also performed in French ("Rien Ne Va Plus, Rien Ne Va"). The melody of tsyganochka influenced a number of other Vysotsky's songs. 1
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Tsyganochka”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1
Tsyganochka is Russian folk dance, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2
The source record links this tradition to 1 external register, which can be verified through the citation. 2
