Dance Across Europe.

Waipukurau Press, Volume XIV, Issue 45, 19 April 1930, Page 2

Dance Across Europe.

RUMANIAN STUDENTS. VISITS TO OVER 600 TOWNS. A new way of making their country better known in other lands is shortly to be tried by students from the University of Bucharest. Twenty-eight of the most talented students have been granted leave of absence so that they may tour Europe, including England, by motor car, and give performances at various towns of the centuries-old Rumanian peasant dances and songs, together with lectures about their country. Of the company, eight will be women, chosen for their beauty as well as their intelligence, and each member will wear the typical costume of different districts. These peasant costumes, which have gaily embroidered skirts and leather coats, skirts studded with silver or woven of gold' and silver thread, and long sheepskin cloaks and high pointed fur caps for the men, are said to be the most picturesque in Europe. The party will travel in two motor cars, and plans to cover over 12,500 miles during the tour. On their way to England they will visit Austria, Czechoslovakia. Germany, Holland and Belgium, and on the return journey pass through France, Switzerland, Spain Portugal, Italy, Jugo-Slavia and Bulgaria. Besides stopping for,several days at 75 principal towns on the route, where they will hold Rumanian festivals that will be broadcast, they intend to make short halts for performances at' 534 other towns. The students have organised the tour through their leading organisation, “The Country’s Guards,” and student’s organisations in the lands through which they pass will entertain them.