{{Lezgins sidebar}} {{Short description|Variety of North Caucasian dances}} [[File:VereshchaginVasilyVasilyevich-Lezginka(1867)higher resolution.jpg|right|thumb|Drawing by famous Russian artist Vasily Vereshchagin "Lezginka" which after visiting southern Dagestan and Elisabethpol Governorate wrote the scene, observing the customs and traditions of the Lezgins. (1867)]] [[File:Танец "лезгинка", лезгины, Дагестанская обл, с. Ахты, начало XX века.jpg|right|thumb|Lezgins dancing the "lezginka" in the village of Akhty, Dagestan region (1900)]] The '''Lezginka''' ({{langx|ru|Лезгинка}}, {{langx|lez|Лезги кьуьл}}) is a folk dance common throughout the North Caucasus<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://azerdict.com/izahli-luget/l%C9%99zgih%C9%99ngi|title=Ləzgihəngi|website=azerdict.com|language=Azerbaijani|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505122233/https://azerdict.com/izahli-luget/l%C9%99zgih%C9%99ngi|archive-date=May 5, 2019|url-status=live|access-date=May 5, 2018}}</ref>. It is named after the Lezgin people. It uses a fast {{music|time|6|8}} rhythm, and can be either a solo male or a pair dance.<ref>Умаханова, Алла Мусаевна. Хореография народов Южного Дагестана. Russian Academy of Science, Scientific Centre of Dagestan, Makhachkala, 1993</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=RZQGAQAAIAAJ Большая советская энциклопедия. Том 24. 2-е издание. Государственное научное издательство "Большая советская энциклопедия", 1949. — С. 445.]</ref><ref>''Т. Н. Третьякова''. Основы эстетики и художественно деятельности; музыка еародоы мира. 2000. — С. 122. {{ISBN|978-5-696-01461-6}}</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=JxMHAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA172 ''А. Должанский''. Краткий музыкальный словарь. Государственное музыкальное издательство, Ленинград, 1955. — С. 172.] {{ISBN|978-5-517-89006-1}}.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://etokavkaz.ru/traditcii/pobeda-vyzov-strast-kinzhal-osel-i-demonicheskaya-sila|title = Победа, вызов, страсть, кинжал, осел и демоническая сила}}</ref>
According to ''Encyclopædia Britannica'':<ref>{{cite web | title=Lezgian dance | website=Encyclopedia Britannica | date=1998-07-20 | url=https://www.britannica.com:443/art/lezginka}}</ref> {{blockquote | Lezginka, also spelled Lezghinka, folk dance originating among the Lezgin people of the North Caucasus. It is a male solo dance (often with a sword) and also a couple dance. The man, imitating the eagle, falls to his knees, leaps up, and dances with concise steps and strong, sharp arm and body movements. When the dance is performed in pairs, couples do not touch; the woman dances quietly as she regards the man's display. }}
The dance has also been adapted into classical music in Aram Khachaturian's 1942 ballet ''Gayane''.<ref name="Biancolli">{{cite book |last1=Biancolli |first1=Louis |chapter=Aram Khatchatourian |title=The Concert Companion: A Comprehensive Guide to Symphonic Music |date=1947 |publisher=Whittlesey House |location=New York |isbn=0000412090 |chapter-url= https://archive.org/details/concertcompanion0000baga/page/371/mode/1up |pages=371–372 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Katonova |first1=Svetlana Vladimirovna |title=Музыка советского балета: Очерки истории и теории [Music of the Soviet Ballet: Essays on History and Theory] |date=1980 |publisher=Sovetsky kompozitor |location=Ленинград |url=https://archive.org/details/20251117_282/ |language=ru |page=146}}</ref>
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==External links== * Video: [https://youtube.com/watch?v=ub4xESAenVE Lezgi sample] – folk dance Lezginka by the Azerbaijani ensemble "Suvar"
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