Playlist, Monday, November 24, 2025 - Vulpiuta (Romania) Happy Thanksgiving!

[katia mucha]

Hi, dancers,

On Monday, dancers enjoyed our last dance of November and are looking forward

to December dancing on Monday, 12/1.  We're  dancing every Monday and Friday 

for the first three weeks of December, and our Holiday Party is on 12/19. 

GLOVEMBER donations continue until 1/5/2026.

This week, Tom briefly taught the lively Vulpiuta or "Little Fox."  This Romanian/Oltenian 

dance was taught in the USA by Sunni Bloland who learned it from from Theodor & 

Lia Vasilescu, shown in this video.  (Lia happens to be wearing fall colors.)  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKDM7YrDW0k&t=109s

Happy Thanksgiving.   

Since 1970, it is also the National Day of Mourning, an opportunity to reflect on Native 

American heritage and the role Thanksgiving played in the lives of their ancestors. 

Being by Tanaya Winder (of the Duckwater Shoshone Tribe)

Wake up, greet the sun, and pray.

Burn cedar, sweet grass, sage—

sacred herbs to honor the lives we’ve been given,

for we have been gifted these ways since the beginning of time.

Remember, when you step into the arena of your life,

think about those who stand beside you, next to, and with you.

Your ancestors are always in your corner, along with your people.

When we enter this world we are born hungry,

our spirits long for us to live out our traditions

that have been passed down for generations.

Prayer, ceremony, dance, language—our ways of being.

Never forget you were put on this earth for a reason—

honor your ancestors.

    Be a good relative. 

(from poetryfoundation.org)

PLAYLIST Monday, November 24, 2025

1.     Ajde Lepa Maro (Serbia)

2.     Ais Giorgis (Greece)

3.     Guzelleme (Turkey)

4.     Yambolsko Pajdushko #1 (Romania)

5.     Andaman Pallikari (Greece)

6.     High Green Mountain (Aboriginal Taiwanese)

7.     Dans Tricot (Brittany)

8.     Sarba din Rucar (Romania)

9.     Silistrenska Tropanka (Bulgaria)

10.  Ne Felj Lanyom (Csango Hungarian)

11.  Five-Measured Dajcovo (Bulgaria)

12.  Cintecul Iedului (Romanian Yiddish)

13.  Cumbia Semana (USA/Colombia)

14.  Hora Miresii (Romania)

15.  Vulpiuta (Romania) BRIEFLY TAUGHT

 https://folkdancemusings.blogspot.com/2014/12/vulpita-romania.html

16.  He Cane (Turkey/Kurdish)

17.  Ciorba de Curcan (Romania). “Turkey Chowder” for Thanksgiving

18.  Eten Bamidbar (Israel)

19.  Sej Sej Bop (Bulgaria)

20.  Svekrvino Oro (Macedonia)

21.  Vulpiuta (Romania)

22.  Robin Ddiog (Wales)

23.  Djurdjevica (Serbia)

24.  Kvar Acherei Chatsot (Israel)

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