Moldvai Csango (East Hungarian Line) Dances

Here are dance descriptions for Moldvai Csángó dances that Marjorie Nugent and I have taught at the New England Folk Festival in 2015, 2003 and earlier. We had live music by Csángó Bázonga (Ralph Iverson, Julia Poirier, and David Skidmore) for the NEFFA sessions.

• Moldvai Dance Descriptions (pdf) 15 pages.

A few notes:

• In 2015 we taught the following dances: (1) Bulgarjaszka, (2) Drumul Dracului, (3) Zdrobuleanca, (4) Hojna, (5) Gergelytanc, (6) Serenyi Magyaros.
• You can find lots of YouTube links for the music as well as videos of people dancing these as performance pieces or in the Táncház revival movement. One we particularly recommend for "Gergelytánc" is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siPTWCW0T7M.
• The CD we recommend everyone get is the one by the awesome Hungarian band Dűvő Zenekar. Besides their many commerical recordings, each of which offers a variety of Hungarian and Transylvanian dance music, they also have CD's that that focus on one region or village. The latter were originally produced for the dance camp Ti Ti Tabor, where they are the house band, and are great for dancers or musicians learning a particularly style.
• The last tune on the CD labeled "Szerba" on the CD works for "Tiszti".
• The cut on the CD labeled "Zvabukanka" is a variant name for what we called "Zdrobuleanca".

Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or we can help in any way!

Marjorie & Tom