Re:Hora and Travels

[Jennifer R. Goodman <jenifer...>]

Shalom!

A question came up in the course of klezmer practice: my 
accordion-playing colleague asked me what sort of dance the "hora"
would have been. He plays for an international folk-dance group,
but finds it difficult to relate the music we are exploring to
the modern Israeli dances that go by the same name, and the
other Eastern European "horos" he knows only complicate the
situation. It would help us a lot to be able to envision what
the dancers are supposed to be doing while the music is being
played. (We are working our way through H. Sapoznik's _The
Compleat Klezmer_, so the horas we are dealing with are the ones
represented there.)

Guidance on other klezmer dance forms and how to go about learning
them would be appreciated, too, but the hora question is especially
perplexing. 

Many thanks for your help!

Jennifer Goodman

Department of English 
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4227
jenifer (at) tam2000(dot)tamu(dot)edu