Talk:Letkajenkka

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Letkajenkka is not a folk dance! The Finnish folk dance is Jenkka which has completely other steps. Letkajenkka (= "Letkiss") is an artificial dance which has only the same rhythm as Jenkka. Sorry, I am going to travel this morning, so I have no time to correct this by myself. --145.254.146.69 06:03, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

La yenka

Coming from the 365 Days Project. Is this related to the Spanish hit of the 1960s La yenka? --84.20.17.84 11:59, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Letkajenkka is NOT Jenkka

Jenkka is an old Finnish Dance. It is danced with pairs. There are lots of Jenkkas composed by lots of composers. The steps of Jenkka have nothing to do with the steps descibed in this article.

But there is only one Letkajenkka. It uses only the speed and the rhythm of Jenkka, but is danced in a long queue. Letkajenkka was renamed as "Letkiss" and became famous in the whole world. Jenkka is only the source of Letkajenkka, but it is a completely different dance.

I am really tired to remove the wrong links from the German Wikipedia to the English Wikipedia which those stupid bots always set. As you can see, there are 2 different articles about Jenkka [1] and Letkajenkka [2] in the German Wikipedia.

Unfortunately, in the Finnish Wikipedia both dances are included in one article [3]. Maybe this confuses the stupid bots :( --193.57.156.241 12:49, 10 September 2007 (UTC) [4]

The more important first: I am now working on the English version of Jenkka and Letkajenkka, so they will be in better shape as of today. The steps start with the left foot which can be verified by taking a look at movies and music videos of that time (1963-65). I have found only one where the steps come from Bunny Hop, not Letkis. Also many translations of the song to other languages have instructions for dancing: "Left kick, left kick, right..." and so on. The less important one: I am not proficient enough to write in German, but I can understand what I read. I hope somebody will translate from this English version into German, since the German one holds a lot of mistakes. To explain why the Finnish Wiki has only one article on the subject: in Finland Letkajenkka is considered only a form of Jenkka, a variation that became popular and a craze. In other countries Letkis or Letkajenkka is far more well known than its mother, the Jenkka, and Letkis / Letkajenkka is thus living a life of its own. In other countries Letkis is an institution, a craze. I can see it having its own page. But to be consistent, maybe it should be filed under Jenkka. After all, that's what it is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shiokumi (talk • contribs) 08:47, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Movie

Why do we need a citation that the jenkka appears in Cry Baby? Surely the movie itself is sufficient evidence? Piimapoika (talk) 12:55, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

• It's Simple; We Cite The Batman(Read: Movie) xnamkcor (talk) 06:11, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Letkajenkka --> Bunny hop (dance)

This article mixes dance and music: what comes to the dance, letkajenkka is nothing more than a Finnish name for a novelty dance with the very same "choreography", called Bunny hop in English. As Bunny hop has an article of its own (Bunny hop (dance)), the one covering the "Finnish" dance should be merged with it. The latter one even includes a section for some national variants, with letkajenkka as a Finnish case. One can easily find from YouTube several videos which clearly show Bunny hop being danced to varied kinds of music in various countries.

Another matter is the music: Letkis (also known as Letkajenkka, Letkis-jenkka, Letkiss, etc) composed by Rauno Lehtinen would deserve an article of its own due to the composition's appreciation at least in Finland. Sadly, a Wikipedia article on Rauno Lehtinen mentions this very composition – but a link leads to the very article on the dance, though luckily including a section on the composition itself.

Ideal would be to change the current Letkajenkka article to cover the musical work by Lehtinen, with a link to the Bunny hop (dance) article, which then would cover the now internationally known novelty dance. --Jtuohini (talk) 19:50, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Indeed, this Wikipedia entry is very stupid!

The origin is Ray Anthony's composition Bunny Hop (1953), from a time when American musicians were trying to impose all kinds of novelty dances (https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=EmC1KyxhEJU). The dance was not brought by the Finns to the USA, but vice versa. Finnish exchange students in the US brought the dance to Finland, as the Finnish Wikipedia itself says (https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkka#Letkajenkka)

"Jenkka" would roughly translate to "polka" and is indeed a dance in the polka family. "Letkajenkka" would translate "polka in line", but it has nothing to do with polka, but is a dance, as Anthony thought of it, from the conga family. 82.77.245.73 (talk) 19:20, 13 April 2023 (UTC)