Bottle Dance
I am curious about the Bottle Dance shown at the wedding. Is this a Russian tradition for real or just writtrn-in for the show and film. I have never seen this kind of dance performed at any wedding. What is its origin?
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shareI just put the disk in to watch that scene last night, but I ended up watching the whole thing. I don't know the answer to your question but I just came here to see if anybody else commented on that part. Someone will eventually know the answer.
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When Jerome Robbins produced the original Broadway play, he crashed some Orthodox-Jewish weddings, looking for something special to put in the wedding-dance scene. When he saw a "bottle-dance" at one of these, he put that into Fiddler. I have only been to Orthodox-Jewish weddings in my life. They are SO lively! People make up all kinds of "shtick" while dancing, and I'm pretty sure this was just some "shtick", made up randomly, at that particular wedding that Robbins witnessed. One of my faves, that I once saw, was a bull-matador (sp?) dance-shtick.
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