From Piedmont, Val Varaita, it is also known as Courento. The name refers simply to a category of dance. This is one of the valley dances from the former Occitania region which ranged from the Alps to the Pyrenees, from the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Its antecedents are in doubt, most likely deriving from Renaissance dances. Like other dances from the same valley, it is followed by another sequence of figures, called "Balet."

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