Sufi?

[MaxwellSt <MaxwellSt...>]

In a message dated 2/8/2002 5:48:45 PM Central Standard Time, 
winklerh (at) hotmail(dot)com writes:


> I also don't know anything about Sufi dancing.  However, the Yiddish
> hora(shown in the photo) is actually the same basic dance as the Romanians
> to that kind of music.  It falls into the category of shared experience
> dances.  I don't know if there is any connection between Romanian dance and
> Sufi dance.
> 
There has also been an anthropological study linking the hora to Ring Around 
the Rosy....Come on, guys, dancing in a circle has got to be as basic to 
human social recreation as it gets....