Simon van Booy
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Today's post is about three variations of the dance Hora de Mina (mână). It emphasizes a particular body part, the hands. There are two spellings, one with diacritics and one without. Most groups in the States use the spelling "mina" without diacritics.
Video #1 is the version done by nearly every folk dance group. The melody is played on a bagpipe (cimpoi) in Romanian. It's from the region of Oltenia in southwest Romania. The dancers are from Jerusalem in Israel.
Video #2 has different music and different choreography than Video #1. This group, Hora Romaneasca, is from Boulder, Colorado, USA, performing the dance during a festival. This one has strigaturi (shouts) and a lot of hand movement.
Video #3 is a version of Hora de Mina that I haven't seen before. This one seems to be more popular across the Pond.
The dancer, Rosemary Gledhill, is from the United Kingdom. Does anyone out there know the name of the song? This is the only version of this dance with vocals. There is a teaching segment at the end of the video.
Since dancing is much more fun in a group, here is Hora de Mina version 3 performed by Kaval, a group from the Netherlands. Kaval is also the name of a musical instrument, an end blown flute played in the Balkans.
If you enjoyed this you may also like:
Dances from Oltenia Part Six (links to the previous posts in the series)
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