Letkajenkka
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Letkajenkka, anglicized to letkiss, is a Finnish dance that was invented in the early 1960's on the basis of the folk dance schottische (in Finnish jenkka).
The dance became a short-lived international craze with the release of the tune by Roberto Delgado in 1965.
[edit] Steps
The people participating in the dance form a Conga-like line so that everyone holds the person in front of her/him by the waist. The steps go as follows (everybody does the same thing):[citation needed]
- kick to the right with your right foot & step back to the middle
- kick to the right with your right foot & step back to the middle
- kick to the left with your left foot & step back to the middle
- kick to the left with your left foot & step back to the middle
- jump forward with both feet (about 1 feet in length)
- jump backward with both feet
- jump forward three times with both feet
(repeat)
1-4 may be enhanced by jumping a bit with the leg opposite to the kicking side.
[edit] Trivia
A performance of this dance can be seen in the movie Cry-Baby (1990) with Johnny Depp.[citation needed]
