A Night of Hungarian Folk Dance (1/16)

We started off our day with a surprise of fresh snow! The light dusting of snow amounted to about 1 inch and continued to fall throughout our morning math class on Fermat’s Little Theorem! 

After our morning math lecture, a few of us sought out a second breakfast before finding our way to a small music venue that would serve as our classroom for our guest lecturer today.  How to define “Hungarian” music and the evolution of music throughout the history of Hungary was the primary focus of this wonderful talk by Dr. Fazekas. 

This talk featured some subtle foreshadowing of what we should be expecting at tonight's non-compulsory, yet highly encouraged night of Hungarian Folk Dancing.  

We were lucky to have instructors that were willing to guide us in learning the basics prior to the regular crowd rolling in for a night of fun. Accompanied by a lute and a fiddle, we joined hands and began “dancing” if you can even call it that for the first few minutes. After a while, the group began to fall into the music and follow along quite successfully considering it was the first dance experience for many. By the end of the night, Prof. Berliner even joined in for the quickest of dances and after just briefly seeing those spectacular moves you would have expected his background to have been from Broadway.  Alas he can count dance moves as if they were numbers in modulo 8.

Max, Collin and Holden signing off to hit the hay.