Barynya

Barynya is a fast Russian folk dance and music.

The origins of the Barynya dance developed in the Eurasian region of the Central Russian Upland.

[1] The word barynya (Russian: Барыня, landlady) was used in Old Russian or Rus' lands as a form of addressing to a woman of higher class, literally when translated means “landlady”, a feminine form for the word "barin", landlord.

The main characteristics of the Barynya dance are traditional elements of Russian folk dance like Russian squatting, rotations, jumps and sprited stomping.

A number of Russian folkloric dance ensembles bear the name.