Devochka Nadya – Девочка Надя

Traditional folk dance of the Don Cossacks that was collected by the Russian ethnomusicologist Aleksej Shilin during a field work expedition. Hennie Konings learned the dance from Aleksej Shilin at a dance event in the Ukraine in 2007. The melody of this dance is well known all over Russia and many different dances are done to it. Translation: “Nadya, little girl.”

Presented by Radboud Koop in 2008. View pdf here.