HORA OLTENEASCĂ Romanian
PRONUNCIATION:	HAW-rah ohl-teh-NEH-skuh
TRANSLATION:	Dance of Oltenia
SOURCE:	Mihai David learned this dance during the years 1963 to 1965, while he was a performer with the Romanian State Folk Dance Ensemble during the years 1963 to 1965 and subsequently taught it to folk dancers in the United States.
BACKGROUND:	The ethnographic region of Oltenia is green and mountainous and has some of southeastern Romania's oldest surviving artifacts, edifices, and folklore, with little Turkish, Russian, or Greek influence.
MUSIC:	Gypsy Camp Vol. I (LP) GC 5201-I
FORMATION:	Lines of mixed M and W with hands joined and held down in "V" pos.
METER/RHYTHM:	4/4
STEPS/STYLE:	The dance has a relaxed, down-to-earth feeling. All stamps are without wt.
MEAS	MOVEMENT DESCRIPTION
	INTRODUCTION
1-4	No action.
I.	TO CTR AND BACK
1	Facing ctr, run fwd R,L,R,L, raising hands to shldr height in "W" pos (cts 1,2,3,4);
2	Step R in place (ct 1); stamp L without wt (ct &); raise and lower R heel (ct 2); stamp L without wt (ct &); step L,R,L in place (cts 3,&,4);
3	Moving out of cir, step R bwd (ct 1); hop R (ct 2); step bwd L, beginning to lower hands (ct 3); hop L, continuing to lower hands (ct 4);
4	Run bwd R,L,R, lowering hands to "V" pos (cts 1,2,3); leap L in place (ct 4).
5-6	Repeat action of meas 1-4.
II.	IN PLACE
1-2	Repeat action of Fig I, meas 2, in place two times;
3	Step R in place (ct 1); stamp L without wt (ct &); raise and lower R heel (ct 2); stamp L without wt (ct &)
4	Step R,L,R in place (cts 1,&,2); stamp L without wt (ct &); step L,R,L (cts 3,&4).
5-8	Repeat action of Fig II, meas 1-4.
III.	TRAVELING TO R
1	Turning to face to R and moving in LOD, step R (ct 1); hop R (ct 2); step L (ct 3); hop L (ct 4);
2	Repeat action of Fig III, meas 1.
	NOTE: During the second and fourth repeat of the dance, Fig III has 4 meas instead of 2 so that the step-hops alternate 4, 8, 4, 8.
	Repeat entire dance from beg.
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