The tradition & historical record
1 min read · 2 sourcesThe khorovod or horovod (Russian: хоровод, Ukrainian: хоровод, корогод, Polish: korowód) is the Slavic name for a folk dance combining circle dance and chorus singing, similar to the choreia of ancient Greece. 1
Etymology
The term khorovod likely descends from the Greek Choreia (Ancient Greek: χορεία); Rus' culture was heavily influenced by Greek culture. Khorovod is related to choreia ( a Greek circle dance), kolo (a South Slavic circle dance originating in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia), hora (Balkans), and kochari (Armenian and Azerbaijani folk dance). 1
Origin and characteristics
The participants of the dance hold the hand or the little finger of their dance partners while dancing in a circle. 1
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Khorovod”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1
khorovod is East-Slavic massive circular ritual dance, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2
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