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For hundreds of years, Bulgarian Gypsies trained bears to boogie, welcoming them into their young families and taking them on the path to perform. In the first 2000s, with nov Communism, they were forced release a the bears into a animals refuge. But right now, whenever the bears visit a people, they still get up on the hind hip and legs to dance. In the custom of Ryszard Kapuściński, award-winning Polish journalist, Witold Szablowski uncovers remarkable stories of people throughout Eastern Europe and in Cuba who, like Bulgaria's dancing bears, are now free but who seem nostalgic for the time when they were not. His on-the-ground accounts provide a fascinating family portrait of interpersonal and economical upheaval and a lessons in the troubles of flexibility and the seductions of authoritarian guideline.
