Dramskoto Horo

DRAMSKOTO HORO
Bulgarian

PRONUNCIATION: DRAHM-skoh-toh hoh-ROH

TRANSLATION: Dance from Drama

SOURCE: Dick Oakes learned this dance from Marcus (Holt) Moskoff who learned it from Mitko Manoff of the State Ensemble for Folk Songs and Dance of Sofia, Bulgaria.

BACKGROUND: The town of Drama is in the eastern Thracian area of Greece. Drama has excellent water resources and may well owe its name to Hydrama (Greek: "having to do with water"), a town which it is believed stood on the same site in ancient times.

MUSIC: XOPO (LP) X-LP-5, side B, band 6

FORMATION: Segregated lines of M and W. M grasp shldrs of neighbors in "T" pos, W hold joined hands at shldr level with elbows bent in "W" pos.

METER/RHYTHM: 7/16. The rhythm is slow-quick-quick (3-2-2) and is counted below in three dancers' counts. This is sometimes referred to as the "četvorno" rhythm.

STEPS/STYLE: The term "hop" used in these descriptions is a low raising and lowering of the heel only (called a "čukče").

MEAS MOVEMENT DESCRIPTION

INTRODUCTION

1-8 No action.

THE DANCE

1 Facing diag R and moving in LOD, step R (ct 1); hop R, lifting L across in front of L (ct 2); step L across in front of R (ct 3);

2 Repeat action of meas 1;

3 Facing ctr, step R swd (ct 1); step L next to R (ct 2); step R next to L (ct 3);

4 Repeat action of meas 3 to L with opp ftwk;

5 Step bwd R (ct 1); step L in place (ct 2); pause (ct 3);

6-8 Facing ctr and moving twd ctr, repeat action of meas 1-3;

9-10 Repeat action of meas 6-7 moving bwd with opp ftwk;

11 Step bwd L (ct 1); step R in place (ct 2); pause (ct 3);

12 Step L next to R (ct 1); hop L, lifting R up in a bwd "bicycle" motion (ct 2); stamp R next to L without wt (ct 3).

Repeat entire dance from beg.

Copyright © 2012 by Dick Oakes

DRAMSKOTO HORO Bulgarian

PRONUNCIATION:	DRAHM-skoh-toh hoh-ROH

TRANSLATION:	Dance from Drama

SOURCE:	Dick Oakes learned this dance from Marcus (Holt) Moskoff who learned it from Mitko Manoff of the State Ensemble for Folk Songs and Dance of Sofia, Bulgaria.

BACKGROUND:	The town of Drama is in the eastern Thracian area of Greece. Drama has excellent water resources and may well owe its name to Hydrama (Greek: "having to do with water"), a town which it is believed stood on the same site in ancient times.

MUSIC:	XOPO (LP) X-LP-5, side B, band 6

FORMATION:	Segregated lines of M and W. M grasp shldrs of neighbors in "T" pos, W hold joined hands at shldr level with elbows bent in "W" pos.

METER/RHYTHM:	7/16. The rhythm is slow-quick-quick (3-2-2) and is counted below in three dancers' counts. This is sometimes referred to as the "četvorno" rhythm.

STEPS/STYLE:	The term "hop" used in these descriptions is a low raising and lowering of the heel only (called a "čukče").


MEAS	MOVEMENT DESCRIPTION


	INTRODUCTION

1-8	No action.

	THE DANCE

1	Facing diag R and moving in LOD, step R (ct 1); hop R, lifting L across in front of L (ct 2); step L across in front of R (ct 3);
2	Repeat action of meas 1;

3	Facing ctr, step R swd (ct 1); step L next to R (ct 2); step R next to L (ct 3);
4	Repeat action of meas 3 to L with opp ftwk;
5	Step bwd R (ct 1); step L in place (ct 2); pause (ct 3);

6-8	Facing ctr and moving twd ctr, repeat action of meas 1-3;

9-10	Repeat action of meas 6-7 moving bwd with opp ftwk;
11	Step bwd L (ct 1); step R in place (ct 2); pause (ct 3);
12	Step L next to R (ct 1); hop L, lifting R up in a bwd "bicycle" motion (ct 2); stamp R next to L without wt (ct 3).

	Repeat entire dance from beg.
Copyright © 2012 by Dick Oakes