Chorea

Chorea may refer to:

• A round dance accompanied by singing; (Chorea)
• A symptom of movement disorders that presents as involuntary movement; (Chorea)

Homer's poem the Iliad refers to chorea (χορεία) a Greek Circle dance accompanied by singing. Although circle dance did not originate in Greece derivatives of the name are used to describe circle dances in other countries: Khorovod (Russia), Hora (Romania, Moldova, Israel), Horo (Bulgaria).

Paracelsus used the term chorea to describe the rapid, jerking physical movements of medieval pilgrims traveling the healing shrine of St. Vitus and the associated festivals (giving rise to the terms St. Vitus' dance which is know know as Sydenhams Chorea)).