JOVINATA Bulgarian
PRONUNCIATION:	YOH-vee-nah-tah
TRANSLATION:	Jova is a girl's name and the dance is named after the song Jove malaj mome, "Jova, little Girl".
SOURCE:	Marcus (Holt) Moskoff learned this dance during the summer of 1978.
BACKGROUND:	Marcus learned this dance in the village of Bojana in the Sofia district of Bulgaria.
MUSIC:	XOPO (LP) X-LP-5, side A, band 3
FORMATION:	Long lines of mexed M and W grasping neighbors' belts in "X" hold, R arm under.
METER/RHYTHM:	18/16. The rhythm is slow-quick-quick-quick-quick-slow-quick (3-2-2-2-2-3-2-2) and is counted below in 8 dancers' counts.
STEPS/STYLE:	The term "hop" used below 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 R (ct 2); step L (ct 3); step R (ct 4); step L (ct 5);
	Turning to face ctr, do a small quick hop L (ct &); facing ctr, step slightly bwd R next to L (ct 6); step bwd L (ct 7); step bwd R (ct 8).
2	Facing diag L and moving in RLOD, repeat action of cts 1-5 of meas 1 to L with opp ftwk (cts 1-5);
	Continuing in RLOD, take one more step L (ct 6); turning to face ctr, step fwd R (ct 7); step fwd L (ct 8).
	Repeat entire dance from beg.
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