COMANESTI, Romania (AP) — Centuries ago, people in what is now northeastern Romania donned bear skins and danced to fend off evil spirits. That custom is today known as the Dancing Bears Festival, ...

BUCHAREST: Like dancing and looking for new club music? Move over London and Ibiza, it's time to check out.... Romania. Artists from this eastern European state have inched their way onto the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Visitors to Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall today may opt to listen to a traditional doina, an epic ballad, or taste mamaliga, a cornmeal mush. That’s because ...

COMANESTI, Romania (AP) -- Centuries ago, people in what is now northeastern Romania donned bear skins and danced to fend off evil spirits. That custom is today known as the Dancing Bears Festival, ...

Daria Toma, 15, of the Romanian National Opera's Ballet Studio strikes a pose outside the National History Museum of Romania during Dance Night - 23 August 2025. Dora, 10, left, Irina, 11, center, and ...

Romanian teenager Cosmin sweats profusely under a gigantic bearskin costume as he prances to the exhilarating sound of drums. Romanian teenager Cosmin sweats profusely under a gigantic bearskin ...

Romanian dancer Alina Ciceo isn’t competing in her third year attending Ballet Beyond Borders. But Wednesday, as she sat in the Dennison Theatre at the University of Montana and watched dancers move ...

Beside a steepled church facing Southeast Stark on Sunday, waves of animated conversation punctuated the aroma of roasting meats and the sound of lively ethnic music. The scene was St. Mary's Romanian ...

Five ballet dancers who escaped the Russian invasion of Ukraine have been employed by the Bucharest Opera House, as cultural institutions in Romania try to help artists and performers who are fleeing ...