CHINDIA Romanian
PRONUNCIATION:	KEEN-dya
TRANSLATION:	Sunset (twilight, dusk)
SOURCE:	Larisa Lucaci taught this dance at the 1966 Santa Barbara Folk Dance Conference in California.
BACKGROUND:	Chindia refers to the time and place that the sun sets.
MUSIC:	Monitor (LP) MF 377 "Rhapsodia Romina," side 2, band 5.
FORMATION:	Closed cir or line of mixed M and W with hands grasping neighbors' shldrs in "T" pos.
METER/RHYTHM:	4/4
STEPS/STYLE:	SIDE-STEP: Raise R, as if preparing to step over a furrow in a field (ct & of previous meas); Step R swd (ct 1); raise L, as if stepping over a furrow in a field (ct &); step L next to R (ct 2); raise R, as if preparing to step over a furrow in a field (ct &). Chindia is danced energetically.
MEAS	MOVEMENT DESCRIPTION
	INTRODUCTION
	None.
I.	SIDE-STEPS
1	Dance 2 Side-Steps R (cts 1,2,3,4);
2	Step R swd (ct 1); hop R, raising L in front of R with bent knee (ct 2); step L swd (ct 3); hop L, raising R in front of L with bent knee (ct 4).
3-8	Repeat action of meas 1-2 three more times.
II.	PRANCES
1	Step R swd (ct 1); step L across in front of R without turning body (ct 2); step R back in place (ct 3); hop L, raising R in front of R with bent knee (ct 4);
2	Repeat action of Fig II, meas 1, with opp ftwk.
3-8	Repeat action of Fig II, meas 1-2, three more times.
	Repeat entire dance from beg.
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