Shiru HaShir   Dance by Leah Bergshtein

     Notes by Phillip M. Feldman   25 Apr, 1986  Revised 9 Aug, 1987

Shiru HaShir is an easy two-part circle or line dance. (It works best if
the circle is broken in places).  Hands are joined at waist level
throughout the dance. The introduction has seven counts; the whole dance
repeats four times (three times in the Karmon recording).  These notes
depart slightly from the original choreography to reflect the way the
dance is done today.

       Part 1:

  1-4: Four large running steps forward with R-L-R-L.
  5-7: Three jumps with feet together: left, right, and left.
 8-11: Kick forward with L and run 3 steps backwards with L-R-L.
12-13: Step-hop back onto R and kick forward with L.
14-15: Step-hop in place on L and kick backward with R.
16-30: Repeat 1-15.

       Transition: (Facing center) four cancan-style kicks:

    1: Hop on L and kick forward with R.
    2: Step in place on R.
    3: Hop on R and kick forward with L.
    4: Step in place on L.
  5-8: Repeat 1-4.

       Part 2: Facing center and travelling CCW (to right):

  1-2: Step to right with R and begin to swing L behind R.
  3-4: Step-hop on L.
       Styling: On 1, bend forward and lift arms backwards and up.
       On 3, straighten body and swing arms forward and up.
 5-16: Repeat 1-4 three more times.

       Counts 17-28 are essentially two double-chirkassias, with the
       last two counts of the second double-chirkassia modified:

17-19: Cross R in front of L, rock back onto L, and step to right
       with R.
20-22: Mirror image of 17-19: Cross L in front of R, rock back onto R,
       and step to left with L.
23-25: Repeat 17-19.
26-28: Cross L in front of R, and pushing off of L and twisting to
       face CW, leap backward onto R and step back onto L.