Video: Bulgarian Harvest Folk Dance

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The harvest movement in Bulgarian folk dance mimics the motion of seeding the plants of the harvest. Learn the harvest movement with tips from a professional dancer in this free dancing video.

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In the Northeast Bulgaria, there is a huge field with wheat plants, it's called Dobroudja. The ruchenitsa also is affected from the fact that people after harvesting dance and celebrate the harvest. So they use a wooden bucket, surrounded wooden buckets and some of the movements really mind the seeding of the plants. So they actually walk in a circle and then do, one, two, three; one, two, three; one, two, three; one, two, three; one, two, three. Like they go in a rows and that's the field ahead of them and they do getting the seeds and throwing them and planting them, with the movement, three; one, two, three; one, two, three; one, two, three; one, two, three. In this dance, the man actually use the buckets to step on it and dance on the buckets. One, two, three; one, two, three.

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Bulgarian Harvest Folk Dance

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