За Райна Кацарова - с обич и признателност
About Raina Katsarova with Love and Gratitude

Summary/Abstract: Raina Katsarova was the founder of the terrain dance ethnology in Bulgaria. Hers was the idea and the merit of initiating the collection, description, filming and theoretical studying of Bulgarian national dances, thanks to which, now we possess rich film documentation of unique dance phenomena and rituals. In her monograph “Folk Dances and Games From the Village of Hlevene, the Region of Lovech” she studied the essence of Bulgarian folk horo in the functional entity of artistic life in one village. In “On Ruchenitsa” she examined the dance phenomenon called “ruchenitsa” in all its rich, synchronously existing forms, regional .. variety, i.e. from the ritual dance to the most developed, town or danced on the stage “ruchenitsa”. A considerable contribu­ tion to our scarce choreological literature were the regional studies of Katsarova: “Folk Dances and Games in Strandja”, “Today’s State Of Folk Songs and Dance Folk­ lore in Dobrudja” and “Dances and Games From Northwestern Bulgaria”.

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