BAIK
BAIK, a Bashkir folk dance (solo), which is accompanied by the melody of a song with the same name. According to a legend, the appearance of the dance is associated with the name of BaikAydar, who dedicated it to the victorious warriors who returned home from the Patriotic War of 1812. Initially, the dance had a characteristic of a heroic epic and embodied in itself the unity of poetic, text, and musical elements of dramatic games and pantomimes. In the 19th century, it developed into an independent genre. It was presented on stage as a professional genre in the 1930s by G.G.Ushanov, who created the original version of the dance. The dance is usually performed by a mature dancer, who, with humor depicts, now a clever young man, now a horsemanrider and now an old man, who has seen a lot in life, but who has not lost his cheerfulness and optimism. At its climax the dance is accompanied by shouts or a quatrain. M.R.Idrisov presented his own version of the dance under the name of Old Baik.