In Honor of International Women's Day: Women's Dances from the Balkans

Today, in honor of the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, here are several women's dances from the Balkans. In this part of the world, back in the day, dances were often used as the venue for men and women to meet, (and eventually marry) under the watchful eye of the older women.

The first, from Romania, is the very beautiful and graceful Hora Fetelor (Girls' Dance). Since The Alien Diaries is an equal opportunity blog, the dance immediately following is the very masculine Calusari, a springtime dance performed by men wielding sticks.



The next video is of Dobrudjanska Reka, from Bulgaria, also a women's dance, performed by a group in a mall. Notice that a woman is leading it. Nowadays, this too is an equal opportunity dance, even the men are allowed to join the line :)



The third women's dance is Tresenica, from Macedonia.



For some men's dances, click the next link (as I said before this is an equal opportunity blog!)

http://katleyplanetbg.blogspot.com/2011/03/what-butchers-did-for-fun-butchers.html


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