Vidinsko horo (VEE-deen-skoh hoh-ROH), is an arrangement of traditional steps from N.W. Bulgaria of the Vlach dance type known as Sitno Vlasko. Learned from the State Folk Ensemble, Vidin 1970, this dance was taught at the 1998 Stockton Folk Dance Camp by Yves Moreau. The Vlachs are a Romanian-speaking minority of Bulgarians whose ancestors fled to Romania during the Turkish occupation, settling mostly in Banat, and in Oltenia and Muntenia (formerly Wallachia, from which the word Vlach is derived). After several centuries the Turks left Bulgaria, and many Vlachs returned, culturally more Romanian than Bulgarian. Their dances share much in common with those found north of the Danube in Romania and in Serbia to the west. Dance notes…
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