Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Dancing

No, I am not dancing.  I am watching folk dance on youtube.  Tonight I am especially overwhelmed with organizing to move into a new apartment, watching the presidential debate, and seeing a dance video from the Bashkir State Assembly Folk Dance troupe.

When first I had computer, two years ago, I went to see horses, accordion, and dance.  I found Igor Moiseyev, the folk dance choreographer, and was astounded.  Basically I became somewhat familiar with the Black Sea.  Then I became familiar with the Caspian Sea, and finally realized where the Baltic Sea is.  Accordion and dance and horses.  But when tonight  somehow I found a dance video from a place called Bashkir and looked up something about Bashkiristan (I know that is wrong spelling)  it mentioned that the Bashkirs were on the east side of Ural Mountains.  I thought I had a general idea where these mountains were.  I didn't.  To see that mountain range going from the Arctic Circle down to Kazakstan , was overwhelming to me.