Khorovod

A young man breaks into a chorowod of girls, painting from 1902

Chorowod ( Russian хоровод , Ukrainian хоровод , Belarusian карагод ) is an East Slavic art form, a dance , a combination of circle dance and choral singing similar to the chorea (dance) from ancient Greece .

literature

• A Russian national dance . In: The Gazebo . Issue 16, 1874, pp. 263, 265, 266 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

Commons : Horovod  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Khorovod description and history (English)