horah
Israeli celebratory dance
A horah is a traditional circle dance performed at Jewish celebrations, especially weddings and bar mitzvahs.
Dancers join hands and move in a circle to lively music, often lifting the honored person on a chair: The band struck up the horah and everyone rushed to the dance floor.
Also spelled hora.
Curved closed shape
- spinningRevolving around an axis
- handsGripping limbs' extremities
- shouldersUpper arm joints
- linkedFastened to another
folk · traditional · steps · music · tempo · clockwise · group · synchronized
Marriage rite and feast
- celebrationFestive event marking occasion
- klezmerTraditional Ashkenazi folk music
- simchaJewish celebration or joy
- kibbutzIsraeli communal farm
Israeli · Yiddish · mazel tov · l'chaim · mitzvah · Judaism · festivity · rejoicing
circle
Curved closed shape
linked · folk · traditional · steps · music · tempo · clockwise · group · synchronized · lift
wedding
Marriage rite and feast
- celebrationFestive event marking occasion
- klezmerTraditional Ashkenazi folk music
- simchaJewish celebration or joy
kibbutz · Israeli · Yiddish · mazel tov · l'chaim · mitzvah · Judaism · festivity · rejoicing · blessing
wedding
Marriage rite and feast
rejoicing · merriment · gathering · ceremony · commemoration · jubilation · revelry · occasion · banquet · toast
heritage
Inherited cultural legacy
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
cultural · ancestral · ceremonial · ethnic · community · roots · legacy · practice · generational · identity
- folk dancessquare dances, jig, square dance, polka, line dance
- Jewish Musicklezmer, Hanukkah songs, cantor, klezmer band, Birkat Hamazon
- Jewish Dancehava nagila, chair dance, klezmer
horahsolo performance
Unaccompanied artistic presentation
ballet solo · one-person show · partner dance · duet · waltz
horahfuneral march
Music accompanying a coffin
dirge · death dance · danse macabre · mourning ritual · lamentation
horahwaltz
Dance in three-quarter time
minuet · adagio · slow dance · ballet · funeral procession