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The fourth dance came from Bucsony, Alsó-Fehér County (today Bucium, Alba county in Romania). [5] Román polka / Poarga Românească (Romanian Polka) The fifth dance is an old Romanian dance similar to the Polka and comes from Belényes (present-day Beiuş, in Bihor county), near the border between Hungary and Romania. [6]
A Sârbă (Moldovan spelling: sîrba; Cyrillic Moldovan: сырба) is a Romanian folk dance normally played in 6 8 or 12 8 time. The word literally means "Serbian". [1] It can be danced in a circle, line, or couple formations. [1]
Traditional folk arts include wood carving, ceramics, weaving and embroidery of costumes, household decorations, dance, and richly varied folk music. Ethnographers have tried to collect in the last two centuries as many elements as possible: the Museum of the Romanian Peasant and the Romanian Academy are currently the main institutions which ...
The căluș is a male group dance, although there are records of traditions from Oltenia region that included 1–2 young girls, now obsolete. A "bride" would be chosen by the group from each village they passed through, based on her dancing skills. The "bride" would be oath-bound to join in the ritual dance, for three years in a row. [citation ...
This is a list of notable folk dance performance groups, listed by country of origin. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (November 2019)
In 1908, a Romanian dance group danced the arcan in Vienna, and in 1937 in London, both times having won prizes from the organisers for their performance. At Humor Monastery (see Painted churches of northern Moldavia ) built in 1530, there is a fresco which shows arcan dancers accompanied by a lăutar .
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Fanfare Ciocărlia is a twelve-piece Romani Balkan brass band from the northeastern Romanian village of Zece Prăjini.They are known for their fast, high-energy music with complex rhythms and high-speed staccato clarinet, saxophone, and trumpet solos.