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So, contrary to some misconceptions, it is not an Austrian Folk Dance .

In the United States, the publishing rights for the song were acquired by a New York publisher Stanley Mills.

It has become popular in the USA as a German heritage song, and has been likewise adopted by people worldwide of many cultures since its creation. It has become a staple dance at weddings and at Oktoberfests .


DANCE STEPS


The "Chicken Dance" song is accompanied by a Dance , which is very easy to learn regardless of age or agility. The dance requires a Group Of People , and it goes as follows:

- Begin in a large circle with everybody facing in towards the center of the ring.

- At the start of the music, shape a chicken beak with your hands. Open and close it four times, during the first four beats of the music.

- Make chicken wings with your arms. Flap your wings four times, during the next four beats of the music.

- Make a chicken's tail feathers with your arms and hands. Wiggle downwards during the next four beats of the music.

- Clap four times during the next four beats of the music.

- Repeat this process four times.

- After the fourth time you grab your neighbours' hands and move round in a circle.

- Switch directions when the bandleader says so.

- The dance repeats, progressively getting faster and faster, until the music stops.


See also: Novelty And Fad Dances


SOME RELEASES


  • ''Tchip Tchip'', by Cash & Carry with Bobby Setter & Co, Cannon Records, Can 3035, 1973.

  • ''Dance Little Bird (The Birdie Song)'', by The Tweets , 1981.

  • ''Ententanz (Dance Little Bird)'', by Chor & Orchester Wilde-Enten GmbH, Hamburg .



THIS SONG IN OTHER LANGUAGES

  • Dutch: De Vogeltjesdans

  • French: La danse des canards

  • German: Der Ententanz

  • Italian: Il ballo del qua qua

  • Portuguese: A dança do passarinho

  • Russian: Танец маленьких утят

  • Spanish: Pajaritos a bailar / El baile de los pajaritos



NOTABLE PERFORMANCES


At the Cincinnati Oktoberfest on September 20, 2004, Rock musician Vince Neil served as the Grand Marshall of the World's Largest Chicken Dance. The US cable television channel VH1 , in its compilation of the ''40 Least Metal Moments'' panned this performance as the single ''least'' metal moment in Heavy Metal history. {Link without Title}


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