Touchstone Sacred Dance Library

Zemmer Atik 

Associations---Couples Israel Wedding 
Tapes Found On---DC I Dc Little 
Origin---Israel
Choreographer---traditional
Notes
originally choreographed by Rivka Sturman, the grandmother of modern Israeli folk dance.
(see Nigun Atik, as this is another name for the same dance.
Notice under Nigun Atik that there is a couples version of this dance.
The couples version is the original.) 
 
Words in Native Tongue
od nashuva el nigun atik v'hazemer yif v'ye'erav od gaveia m'shumar nashik nashik alizai eynayim v'levav tovu tovu ohalainu ki hamachol hiftzia tovu tovu ohaleynu od nashuva el nigun atik
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