Eugenia Popescu-Județ

Eugenia Popescu-Județ (also spelled Popescu-Judetz; September 19, 1925 – December 20, 2011) was a Romanian dancer, dance teacher, choreographer, and folklorist. Trained in ballet, she performed as a solo dancer for several professional theatres in Bucharest and became a famed choreographer of folk-inspired character dance working for film, TV, and several professional ensembles in Romania. She taught folk dance in Romania and internationally. Later she became an expert in manuscripts relating to the 17th century Romanian prince and composer Dimitrie Cantemir.

Life and work Eugenia Popescu-Județ, née Marisescu, was born in Giurgiu, Romania on September 19, 1925. Trained since childhood in classical ballet, she became a professional dancer and solo ballerina with the National Theatre Ballet of Bucharest (1945–50) and the National Opera, also in Bucharest (1950–54). After her marriage to the dancer Gheorghe Popescu-Județ in 1948, her interest in Romanian folk dance increased. From 1968 to 1970 she directed and choreographed folk dance-inspired dance films for Romanian Television.

Eugenia Popescu-Județ taught dance in various capacities, for example from 1948 to 1950 as a folk dance teacher and choreographer at the School and Ensemble of Pioneers in Bucharest,

Selected publications Popescu Județ, Eugenia 1973. Dimitrie Cantemir: Cartea științei muzicii (Dimitrie Cantemir: The book of the science of music). Editura Muzicală a Uniunii Compozitorilor: Bucharest. 1979. Sixty Folk Dances of Romania. Duquesne University Tamburitzans, Institute of Folk Arts: Pittsburgh, PA. 1993. Disemic features in the Romanian folk musical "Jienii". Dance studies. vol. 17, pp. 77–129. 1999. Prince Dimitrie Cantemir: theorist and composer of Turkish music. Pan: Beșiktaș, Istanbul 2002. Tanburî Küçük Artin. A musical treatise of the eighteenth century. Pan Yayıncılık: Beşiktaş, İstanbul 2007. Beyond the glory of the sultans: Cantemir's view of the Turks. Pan: Beșiktaș, Istanbul

Popescu-Județ, Gheorghe, Eugenia Popescu-Județ, and James Roncevic. 1979. Judetz folk dance notation. Pittsburgh, Pa. Duquesne University Tamburitzans.