{"id":188729,"date":"2023-10-24T10:02:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T14:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=188729"},"modified":"2023-10-24T10:07:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T14:07:44","slug":"cortesian-community-joins-viral-witch-dance-this-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/cortesian-community-joins-viral-witch-dance-this-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortesian community joins viral Witch Dance this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A mystical dance is being shared with the Cortes public this month, both in Mansons Landing and Whaletown. Meinsje Vlaming, a local creative, is leading anyone interested in the \u201cWitch Dance\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The special dance was first introduced by<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a German group of women called the Wolfsh\u00e4eger Hexenbrut<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or the Wolfhunter\u2019s Coven. In 2016, during a flash mob performance at a Walpurgis celebration. Walpurgis is an annual gathering of witches derived from German traditions. According to the Coven\u2019s website, 127 countries have performed the dance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main move of the dance is called \u201cSch\u00fcttel\u201d. Vlaming offered a translation of the word saying, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSch\u00fcttel, which means shake, dein- your, and speck, which means bacon. Sch\u00fcttel dein speck: Shake your bacon.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vlaming has been welcoming all to join and learn the dance every Friday, outside at the Commons next to the Mansons Friday Market, at 3:15pm. This Friday October 27th will be the last practice before the 31st. On Halloween at the Gorge Hall in Whaletown, at 4pm, Meinsje is hoping to teach youth in attendance to do the \u201cwobble\u201d, a special move in the dance, and that will be a part of the interactive performance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>To hear more about the Witch Dance, listen to the CKTZ News Update below:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mystical dance is being shared with the Cortes public this month, both in Mansons Landing and Whaletown. Meinsje Vlaming, a local creative, is leading anyone interested in the \u201cWitch Dance\u201d. The special dance was first introduced by a German group of women called the Wolfsh\u00e4eger Hexenbrut, or the Wolfhunter\u2019s Coven. In 2016, during a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":188731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[219,204],"tags":[31767,7746,31765,2664,31768,31766,18871,31763,31764],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188729"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189013,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188729\/revisions\/189013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188729"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=188729"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=188729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}