MAKAZICE Serbian
PRONUNCIATION:	ma-KAH-zee-tseh
TRANSLATION:	Scissors
SOURCE:	Dick Crum introduced this dance to folk dancers in the United States in the mid-1950s.
BACKGROUND:	The trade routes between East and West, and between Central Europe and the Mediterranean, brought the southern Slavs ("yug" means south) into constant contact with many peoples such as the Italians and Germans. All of these non-Slavic groups left their stamp on the indigenous Slav culture
MUSIC:	Festival (45rpm) KF-EP-109 Folkdancer (45rpm) MH 45-3023 Folkraft (45rpm) 1532x45 Crum, Dick. "Makazice" (sheet music), Vranjanka and Other Jugoslav Songs and Dances, Hargail Music Press, New York, 1954.
FORMATION:	Cir or open cir of mixed M and W with joined hands held down at sides in "V" pos.
METER/RHYTHM:	2/4
STEPS/STYLE:	The scissors-type step is danced with a slight "Charleston" flick of the heel out and across.
MEAS	MOVEMENT DESCRIPTION
	INTRODUCTION - None.
	THE DANCE
1	Facing ctr, step R swd (ct 1); step L across in back of R (ct &); step R swd (ct 2); step L across in back of R (ct &).
2	Step R swd (ct 1); step L across in back of R (ct &); step R swd (ct 2); pause (ct &).
3-4	Repeat action of meas 1-2 to the L with opp ftwk.
5	Step R twd ctr (ct 1); touch L fwd and across R (ct 2).
5	Keeping L in front, chug bwd on R (ct 1); step L next to R (ct 2).
6	Repeat action of meas 5-6.
	Repeat entire dance from beg.
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