As the world uses New Year's Eve as a time for celebration, excitement and reflection, in Romania it is custom for locals to mark it slightly differently – by dressing up as dancing bears to ward off ...

On Thursday evening, Sept. 28, the Oak Ridge Folk Dancers are sponsoring a workshop at the Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, with Roberto Bagnoli, of Rome, Italy, teaching folk dances from ...

COSTESTI, RomaniaCOSTESTI, Romania — A Romanian Gypsy leader on Wednesday compared French President Nicolas Sarkozy to Romania’s pro-Nazi wartime leader, following the expulsion of hundreds of Gypsies ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Life was looking grim in the Romanian village of Zece Prajini 20 years ago. The fall of the Iron Curtain and demise of Nicolae Ceausescu ...

The exuberant staccato rhythms piercing into the Sunday night air at the UMass Fine Arts Center drew curious onlookers as people started dancing. Some shy, some spastic – the dancers were mostly ...

Roma women rest after they arranged the table as thousands of people from all over Romania, which has Europe's largest Roma community, gather to celebrate the birthday of St. Mary and to make wedding ...