Macedonian folk dances (ORA)

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Macedonian folclore bursts with rhytms, fast dancing steps, colourful costumes, vigorousness, and beautiful songs , and is always quite striking. Macedonians danced and created folk dances (ora) both in sorrow and in joy, in suffering and in pleasure. So, now we have their magnificent folk dances (ora) as our heritage. These, adapted to present conditions and grouped into series, are danced and presented throughout the country and the world. Numerous dance ensembles study the Macedonian folclore thorughout the country and the world (in the Diaspora) and promote their motherland.
Here is the selection of the best Macedonian folk dances' (ora) bouquets that today are performed at least on stage, if not elsevere.

Selection of Macedonian folk dances (ora)
Eastern Macedonia dances	Rebel's dance Komitsko oro	Aegean Macedonia dances
Osogovo dance Osogovka	Cifte Camce ^ifte ~am~e	Bride's dance Nevestinsko oro
The Hard One Te{koto	A bouquet of dances from the Vardar valley	The Water Fetchers Vodarki
Vranje suite Vrawanska suita	Wedding dance from Bukovo Bukovsko svadbarsko oro	Voden dance Vodensko oro
Malesevo dance Male{evka	Drunken dance Pajdu{ko oro	Potrcano Potr~ano oro
Straight Tikves dance Pravo Tikve{ko oro	Toska Toska	Crnogorka Crnogorka
Sefki's play [efkievo oro	The Ohrid region dances

In the bouquets dances are clustered in accordance with the geografical region of their origin (Eastern Macedonia dances, Aegean Macedonia dances, , Osogovo dance, Series of dances from the Vardar valley), than by certain crafts (Tinsmith's dance, Butcher's dance), or by certain element of life (Rebel's dance, Birde's dance), and by many other features.

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