Khorovod

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title: "Khorovod" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["culture-of-belarus", "circle-dances", "belarusian-folk-dances", "russian-folk-dances", "ukrainian-folk-dances"] description: "East Slavic and pagan circle dance and chorus singing" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khorovod" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary East Slavic and pagan circle dance and chorus singing ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Втёрся-парень-в-хоровод.jpg" caption="A young man breaking into a girls' ''khorovod'', from a 1902 painting by [[Andrei Ryabushkin"] ::

The khorovod or horovod (Russian: хоровод, Ukrainian: хоровод, корогод, Polish: korowód) is the Slavic name for a folk dance combining circle dance and chorus singing, similar to the choreia of ancient Greece.

Etymology

The term khorovod likely descends from the Greek Choreia (Ancient Greek: χορεία); Rus' culture was heavily influenced by Greek culture. Khorovod is related to choreia ( a Greek circle dance), kolo (a South Slavic circle dance originating in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia), hora (Balkans), and kochari (Armenian and Azerbaijani folk dance).

Origin and characteristics

The participants of the dance hold the hand or the little finger of their dance partners while dancing in a circle*.*

Notes

References

References

1. "7. Виды русского народного танца".
2. Кубійович В.М. (ред.). "Енциклопедія українознавства. Т. 1–11".
3. "korowód - Słownik języka polskiego PWN".
4. Mazo, Margarita. (1988). "Song in Rural Russia". Festival of American Folklife.

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