GT Niculescu-Varone – part 1: collector of dance words
GT Niculescu-Varone – part 2: table of dances names

This map shows all locations where his publications include a reference to a dance name.

We can guess the locations that he visited and made detailed research, versus locations that he only knew about via a single source person. The former are likely to be the areas where he has a different dance list for each of many villages within a small region and also where he has detailed information on a particular dance repertoire at a single village, so this suggests that he researched at these locations.

He sometimes has the same dance (or few dances) listed for a number of villages in a region, so we can presume he had an informer that provided a list of village names for a particular dance. There are also many instances where he recorded a dance name with a list of surrounding villages, but in the absence of other dance variants we could assume he did not undertake research in these surrounding villages.

1930 book

Based on many records from surrounding villages:

• Comănești, Mehedinți and surrounding Cloșani
• Maramureș and Oaș zones
• Around Turda, Transylvania

Based on the inclusion of a longer list of dances:

• Maieru, Bistrița-Năsăud
• Bibești, Gorj
• Morteni, Dâmbovița
• Vârvoru, Dolj

1931 book

Based on many records from surrounding villages:

• Along the Arieș river in Alba from Abrud to the Mureș river
• Bran and surrounding villages

Based on the inclusion of a longer list of dances:

• Holod, Bihor
• Stoiceni, Argeș
• Stoicești, Argeș
• Bălcești, Argeș
• Broșteni, Argeș
• Dedulești, Argeș
• Ghermânești, Ilfov
• Otopeni, Ilfov
• Mierea, Dolj
• Buciumeni, Dâmbovița

1932 book

North-east Moldavia (Basarabia), from Chisinau to east of Botoșani.

1979 book

Based on many records from surrounding villages:

• Botoșani region

Based on the inclusion of a longer list of dances:

• Hințești, Argeș
• Mironești, Ilfov
• Iclod, Cluj
• Dridu, Ilfov