Debka Gid
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Hebrew: דבקה גיד (Tendon Debka). Circle dance by Moshe Eskayo.
Debka Gid is a complex but very popular dance. It has five sections which are danced through twice, with the two repetitions interleaved, so that the second dancing of part 1 begins after the first time through part 3. That is, the sequence is 1-2-3-1-4-2-5-3-4-5 followed by some of part 1 as a coda.
The dance takes its name from Eskayo's Achilles tendon, which ruptured while he was teaching the new choreography to Eileen Weinstock. This working session was recorded and can be seen here; at 0:20 you can hear the tendon snap.