About "Samoth"

[Silvio Lorenzato]

Hi all,
anybody could help me? I'm looking for some information about this dance
"Samoth".
Some friend told me this is an israeli folk dance, really? They found it in
the
book "Der alewander" by Martin Wey and Herman Urabl (I think this is an
Orff creation).
Any help would be appreciated.
Silvio

SAMOTH

circle, V hold

A 1
1-2 to the L: R cross in front of L
3-4 open L on L
5-8 "maym" steps
1-2 R to C
3-4 L to C
5-7 3 steps back R-L-R
8 pause

A 2 same as A1 but on the R direction

B no hold
1-2 2 claps on spot
3-4 with R-L 1/2 turn on R (end looking out fo the circle)
5-8 same as 1-2
1-6 on L direction: 6 steps (beg with R) V hold and swing arms
7 big R step and turn front to C
8 close L to the R

repeat B

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[Mario Herger]

I looked in the israeli dance database with 4.500 entries, but there was no
record for "samoth". All data I can find indicates that this dance is from
Switzerland.

You can contact Martin Wey directly, he is in Switzerland and the owner of
the Schweizer Volkstanzarchiv (swiss folk-dance archive), which contains
detailed information to each swiss dance. Here is his email-address:
mw...@smile.ch

Furthermore I found a recording of this dance on
http://www.tanz-koegler.com/c/detail.asp?DanceID=1291&RecordID=33509&Languag
e=DE
The owner of the webshop is Walter Koegler in Stuttgart/Germany, ask him
directly if there are dance-instructions and more background-information for
this dance available. Email: w...@tanz-koegler.com
This database tells that this dance is from Switzerland, not from Israel.

The title of the book "Der Alewander" is also a swiss dance, you can even
see a video on the following website (unfortunately I have none for the
Samoth):
http://www.dancilla.com/search.asp?crit=alewander

So out from all that information I would think Samoth is a swiss dance.

Mario

http://www.volkstanz.at/
http://www.dancilla.com/

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[Mario Herger]

> I looked in the israeli dance database with 4.500 entries, but there was
no
> record for "samoth".

Sorry, that is the link to the israeli dance-database
http://www.israelidances.com/search.asp

Mario