21 June 2021, 10:00 - 16:00

ASTRA Open air museum, the homestead from Sebeșu de Jos

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The community from Sebeșu de Jos will showcase it most important traditional manifestation in the ASTRA Open Air Museum: the Chain Dance from Rusca. In their locality, it takes place on the Pentecost Sunday, the custom dating back to the 18th century. It is not an ordinary dance, but a dance with knots (horă înnodată), where the chain of dancers form several knots. The dance has a foreman who creates those knots skillully, skills being also required in order to untie them without breaking the chain.

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Each year on Pentecost, the villagers from Sebeșu de Jos gather on the Rusca plateau, this being a perfect opportunity for them to meet their relatives from Albina (Timiș), a village located in another part of the country, where they were given lands after the First World War. 

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We will get to know the members of the community, as well as their local occupation: that of using slumgum to make candles.