*a Living dance is a 1st Generation dance that is still performed in the country of origin (or immigrant communities) as part of a social event like a wedding where others can participate (not for an audience) by people who learned the dance informally (from friends and relatives by observation and imitation, not in a classroom situation). For more information, click here and here.
Recreational Folk Dance instructors teach the T-12A pattern as a Macedonian/Serbian dance called Devetorka. I call it the T-12A a variation of the Taproot Dance. For more on the Taproot Dance and its variations, see BEGIN>The Taproot Family.
Devetorka
Ron Houston, in his 1989 Folk Dance Problem Solver article on Tri Godini, states “Dance scholars call this pattern devetorka (ninesome) because it requires 9 beats of music,
divided into 4 groups of 2 + 2 + 2 + 3.” So Devetorka is a scholarly term used by those outside the Balkans for a footwork pattern that has no commonly-agreed-upon name in the Balkans.
As taught by Ron Wixman
And Jaap Leegwater
Notes on Devetorka from a presentation at Stockton, 2005.
This is the single YouTube I could find of a footwork pattern called Devetorka being danced anywhere in the Balkans
Performers of “Orce Nikolov” Skopje North Macedonia, 2019.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VchDc09PRY
Šareni Čorapi,
Macedonians do have a dance that seems to be considered a children’s dance that they call Šareni Čorapi. It has the same pattern as Devetorka. See https://wordpress.com/page/folkdancefootnotes.org/1588
Samokovsko horo
Gankino, Biala Roza
Makedonsko horo
There are several YouTubes of a virtuosic accordion piece called Makedonsko Oro, “Macedonian Dance”, in 9 uneven beats, but YouTubes of Macedonians dancing to something called Makedonsko Oro yield several different dances in several rhythms.
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