HORA DIN GOICESTI Romanian
PRONUNCIATION:	HAW-rah deen goy-CHEHST
TRANSLATION:	Dance from Goicesti
SOURCE:	Mihai David learned this dance while performing with the Romanian State Folk Dance Ensemble.
BACKGROUND:	According to Mihai David, the dance is from the southern Romanian ethnographic region of Muntenia, around the city of Bucareşti (Bucharest). Theodor Vasilescu says that although he knows of no village in Romania with such a name, close names are the villages of Goicea or Goicea Mare, which are in the south of the Oltenia region.
MUSIC:	The Lark (7"EP) FLDR, side 1, band 1.
FORMATION:	Closed cir of mixed M and W with hands joined and held at shldr height, elbows bent, in "W" pos.
METER/RHYTHM:	4/4
STEPS/STYLE:	There is a light, bouncy feeling in the dance.
MEAS	MOVEMENT DESCRIPTION
	INTRODUCTION
1-8	No action.
I.	CTR AND BACK ("W" Pos)
1	Facing ctr, run fwd R (ct 1); run fwd L (ct 2); run fwd R,L,R (cts 3,&,4);
2	Step bwd L,R,L (cts 1,&,2); step fwd R,L,R (cts 3,&,4);
1	Run bwd L (ct 1); run bwd R (ct 2); run bwd L,R,L (cts 3,&,4);
2	Step fwd R,L,R (cts 1,&,2); step bwd L,R,L (cts 3,&,4);
5-8	Repeat action of meas 1-4.
II.	TRAVELING R ("V" Pos)
1	Bringing joined hands down to sides in "V" pos, turning to face R, and running in LOD, run R,L,R (cts 1,&,2); run L,R,L (cts 3,&,4);
2	Run R,L,R (cts 1,&,2); run L, kicking R heel up in back (ct 3); run R, kicking L heel up in back (ct 4);
3-4	Repeat action of meas Fig II, meas 1-2, in same dir but with opp ftwk.
5-8	Repeat action of Fig II, meas 1-4.
	Bringing hands up to "W" pos, repeat entire dance from beg.
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