Supraze, Part 2

I'm always afraid my internet is going to go out, so I broke up the supra post into to to avoid losing everything if the internet goes.
So basically supra = eating eating eating, toasting, drinking, talking, and a general good time. It's a really wonderful atmosphere and one thing I really do love about Georgia. They value their friends immensely and you can really feel it at a supra. Fun times indeed.

So then after the eating and the drinking and so on, a traditional Georgian band played some different types of Georgian music, corresponding with the different types of Georgian dance (haha wow this post is just filled with fun cultural facts!). Each region in Georgia has its own distinct type of dance, depending on its history and geographic location, etc. For example, the mountain region dances are much more manly and intense than the more mild terrain-ed regions. Georgians LOVE to dance too, so when the band started playing it's not like in America where everyone just kind of stares at the dance floor longingly for a while until some brave soul is the first one to dance. No. The music starts and everyone just goes for it and has a good time.
Svanuri
Acharuli
You can see a good example of Svanuri from the Svaneti Region and hear some pretty legit singing. A note about the different dances- pretty much all Georgians just know all the different types and can whip them out at a moments notice. Now obviously the whole restaurant isn't all dancing choreographed like the video, but they all know the styles and steps and just sort of ad-lib it according to the steps that are a part of each type of dance. IT. IS. AWESOME.
If you skip to about the 1 minute mark in the Acharuli one, you can see a good example of the way women dance in that particular dance. It comes from the Achara region. Haha surprise surprise.

Here's a picture of the teachers getting their Georgian dance on.

Then, my favorite part of the night I think (or at least most fun for me haha). The teachers requested a song for us all to dance to, they called it "rock-and-rolli". Luckily, the Georgian band did not play this on their traditional instruments haha. Rather, it was this crazy mix of old music, starting with In the Mood. You can imagine my excitement when In the Mood started playing and everyone was dancing. I could have died. Haha. And it went from there... apparently Georgians love old sock hop style dancing (Elvis, swing, the works) and we did that for quite some time. It was REALLY fun. And that, in a not very small nutshell, was St. George's Day.