Karcmaroscka

Taught at Princeton Folk Dance May 13, 2011. The music used is the Lemko/Rusyn song as it is known today, done by the Folk Band Buraky, but should be to a klezmer arrangement/variation that is no longer known. The dance is a variant of a bulgar, which is close in style and steps to the kolomyika and other round dances (kolos) done by Boyko, Lemko, and Hutzul people as done in the period around 1900, and by Jews possibly up until World War Two. It is a historical form of these dances no longer known. This dance was introduced by Michael Protenic who learned it from his Rusyn grandfather.