Gossip
The room gossip is a traditional dance practiced by the carpenters while sitting or standing . Two dancers stand or sit opposite each other and clap on their own body parts and on the palms of the partner / opponent according to a fixed pattern. The old custom is a ritualized fight dance (similar to the Schuhplattler and the waddling dance ).
While gossiping about the room, two journeymen sit or stand facing each other and clap as follows:
- 1. both hands on your own thighs
- 2. both hands on your own hips
- 3. Clap both hands together in front of your chest
- 4. Cross the other person's right hand in front of their chest and hit their right hand and the left hand against their left
- hand
- 5. Hit the other person with both hands, the right against his left and the left against his right hand
- 6. And all over again and always in the same rhythm.
Even today, gossip from the room is cultivated on festive occasions such as the apocalyptic ceremony.
Web links
- Brief description of the room gossip
- Video of festive room gossip
- Room gossip on a floating roof structure
Individual evidence
- ↑ See the corresponding scene in the DEFA film Spur der Steine with Manfred Krug
- ↑ Quoted from * http://www.holzbau-deutschland.de/mit_holz_bauen/tradition_im_zimmererhandwerk/