Playlist, April 13, 2026. No Friday dancing tomorrow, April 17. Kortanc (Hungary)

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Hi, dancers,

Friday dancing is cancelled tomorrow due to a BACC schedule issue. 

Monday dancers will be taking a few weeks off, so they celebrated with a party that included snacks - and gifts for Tom. May Day and Walpurgisnacht will fall during the Monday hiatus, so Tom preemptively played Star of May (Stella di Maggio) for May Day, and the Witches Dance for Walpurgisnacht, April 30-May 1. These festive days in Germany are named after a nun, St. Walpurga, and they commemorate the medieval belief that witches and evil spirits met on Brocken mountain on this night. 

The dance we're featuring, however, is the Hungarian circle dance, Kortanz, our nod to the recent election in Hungary in which the autocratic prime minister's party fell out of power after sixteen years of rule. 

PLAYLIST Monday, April 13, 2026

1. Witches’ Dance (Germany) for April 30, Walpurgis Night (watched video only)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxFOnmwjGbo (from Frenchtown, NJ)

2. Rumelaj (Roma)

3. Elenska Racenica (Bulgaria)

4. Stella di Maggio (Switzerland) for May Day

https://folkdancemusings.blogspot.com/2015/01/stella-dimaggio-switzterlanditaly.html

5. Fado Portugues (Portuguese Sacred Circle)

6. Kortanc (Hungary) in recognition of the elections there https://folkdancemusings.blogspot.com/2014/03/kortanc-varba-harangoznak-hungary.html

7. Balada LeMa’ayan (Israel)

8. Langdans fran Solleron (Sweden)

9. Kolo Zita (Croatia)

10. Ehun Alargunen Dantza (Basque)

11. Orijent (Serbia)

12. Zensko za Ruka (Bulgaria)

13. Vulpiuta (Romania)

14. Lesnoto (Macedonia)

15. Cumbia Semana (USA/Colombia)

16. An Dro (Brittany)

17. Djipaj (Bulgaria)

18. Valle Naseve Nga Korca (Albania)

19. Didebata (Georgia)

20. Lerikos (Greek American)

21. Kiskanasztanc (Hungary)

22. Branle de la Fosse aux Loups (France)

23. Sabrali sa se, Sabrali (Bulgaria)

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