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The Society of Folk Dance Historians (SFDH) Graovsko horo
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BACKGROUND
Information: A dance.
Translation: From the village of Graovo
Pronunciation: GRAH-ohf-sko hoh-ROH
Region: Shopluk, Bulgaria
Source: Taught by Ventsi Sotirov of Chicago in about 1998.
Meter: 2/4
Music: Nišava: Folk Music from Northern and Eastern Europe. (NIS1212) Side 1, Band 2 "Graovsko."
Formation: Hands held down.
Steps and Style: Small sharp steps. Knees flexed somewhat.
Description: By Michael Kuharski and Marjorie Nugent.
PUBLICATIONS
- Eight-bar Graovsko as done by Nikolai Alichev in the Detroit area to Lexicon's Graovsko tune.
- Twelve-bar Graovsko horo = Kjustendilska Râčenica, but done in 2/4.
- Graovsko horo, taught by Ventsi Sotirov of Chicago in about 1998.
- Graovsko, done in Japan: a highly choreographed version with perhaps nine or ten different variations.
- Graovsko, taught by Christo Ivanov. Sway, walking step, then several Graovsko variations. He called the first step of the basic pattern "graovke." Variations occur at several different parts of the basic pattern as he changes the first two steps into a kind of side step and then the second two steps into a grapevine and then the last two steps into a heel touch, sometimes swinging his leg almost up to his shoulder.
| BARS | PATTERN | |
| The Dance. |
| 1 | Turning to face RLOD, but moving LOD, hop on L (ct 1); step R (ct &); step L (ct 2). |
| 2 | Turning to face LOD, and moving LOD, step R (ct 1); step L (ct 2). |
| 3 | R-L "bloop-step" continuing in LOD (begins on "uh-" quarter-count of meas 2 (ct 1); Hop on L (ct 2). |
| 4 | Facing center, small step R sideward right (ct 1); Hop on R in place, lifting L in front of R (ct 2). |
| 5 | Hop on R (ct 1); Step L sideward left (ct &); Step R across in front of L (ct 2). |
| 6 | Hop on R (ct 1); Step L sideward left (ct &); Step R across behind L (ct 2). |
| 7 | Prancing step L in place (that is, lifting R knee high) (ct 1); Prancing step R in place (ct 2). |
| 8 | Prancing step L in place (ct 1); Step R, twisting back right ("wind-up count") (ct 2). |
| 9 | Step L in place, facing center, swinging straightening R leg around and forward (ct 1); Kick straight right leg high and front (ct 2). |
| 10 | Close R to L (ct 1); Step R in place (ct 2). |
| 11 | Hop on R in place (ct 1); Step L across in front of R (twist to right) (ct 2). |
| 12 | Hop on L in place (ct 1); Tight step R across in front of L (twist to left) (ct &); Tight step L across in front of R (twist to right) (ct 2). |
DOCUMENT
- Bulgaria, a country.
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