Tino mori (S*) & (2**) Revised and updated

*S is for Song ** 2 is for 2nd Generation dance

Tino mori – the Song

In a comment (published in 2013) under this YouTube, John Uhlemann wrote “This is the old Folkraft 45 rpm disc. Check with John Filcich in LA – he may still have copies. The Folkraft 45 was, actually, a re-issue of the old Folkways Tanec ensemble recording of the 1950s. Smithsonian-Folkways may still stock it, or make a transfer for a small fee. Check their web site.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYKh-ouVdSo

Source: Folk Dance Problem Solver ©1993 by Ron Houston. Used with permission.

Source: Deborah Jones, 1982 Vancouver Folk Dance Club

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suqBLYEYRfg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLgJ64cy0aQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zotg-BH1Imk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsmJQ1DefwY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDnRYP1FNNw

Used as the The theme of Macedon in “Civilization 6” Artists unknown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRpSrCCrPoE

Group – Strada ℗ 2006 Les Disques Seppuku https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoPQ77L5U8U

Tino mori – the 2nd Generation Dance

Atanas Kolarovski [the choreographer of Tino mori] was asked to help form Tanec, the Macedonian State Folk Ensemble, where he remained for 19 years as artistic director, choreographer, and lead solo dancer, traveling the world for 16 of those years. Source: https://sfdh.us/encyclopedia/kolarovski_a.html

In 1955, Kolarovski-led Tanec became the first of the Moiseyev-influenced performing groups from Communist countries to tour the United States. Their impact on the folk dance community was electric (see the chapter The Impact of Performing Groups in Phase 3 of A Subjective History of Recreational (International) Folk Dancing in the USA – 3. Tino Mori was a song with choreography featured in that first tour.

Elsie Dunin and Stanimir Višinski (Dances in Macedonia: Performance Genre Tanec, 1995) exhaustively researched the Tanec ensemble repertoire and said this about Tino mori:
This is one of six dances “adapted” to a song already popular during the 1940s. … Arranged to the song Tino Mori, the step pattern matches the melodic phrasing as is common with other “adapted” dances performed by Tanec. The name appears in a Tanec program in 1953 within a set of songs and dances referred to as “sobor,” danced by both men and women.
The Tanec dance resembles but differs considerably from Atanas Kolarovski’s dance, done in the U.S. Source: Folk Dance Problem Solver ©1993 by Ron Houston. Used with permission.

As far as I can tell, there is no traditional dance associated with the (traditional?) song Tino mori. Below are the two YouTubes I can find of people, located in the Balkans, moving to the song.

First there’s a line of dancers in costume STANDING. Well. swaying and clapping, but not dancing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuW-zP3XsIk

Below: Google Translate would only translate the name of the TV show “iselenicki dzuboks” from Serbian (not Macedonian or Bulgarian): “Expatriate Jukebox”, so I assume this is a show for Expat Slavs from other countries now living in Serbia. Note the dance being performed behind the musicians, first by a performing group in costume, then joined by the audience. It’s a simple walk, walk, step, touch, step, touch – the most universal dance in the Balkans – what I call the Taproot Dance or T-6.

Caption, Google translated: “The group Zrak is a guest in the show Expatriate Jukebox on MTV – God bless Tino mori-05.08.2011”.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mav_5YWqIk

More information on Tino mori can be found here: https://sfdh.us/encyclopedia/tino_mori.html