Russian Folk Dance "Khorovod" | “Зорька Алая” Хоровод

The Russian Folk Dance "Khorovod" is an East Slavic and pagan art form and one of the oldest dances of Russia with its more than 1000 years history. It is a combination of a circle dance and chorus singing, similar to the choreia of ancient Greece. The circle dance symbolized in ancient Russian culture to "moving around the sun," and was a pagan rite with the meaning of unity and friendship. It was common that the Khorovod dance started when several marriageable girls started to sing and dance as a possibility to find a partner. Dancers: Olga Kramarova, Mireille Gineste, Fiona Manners