As long as we sing and dance in Hungarian, we will be Hungarian

The Hungarian National Dance Ensemble presents authentic folk dances from different regions reconstructed from the original collection in the Live Dance Archive series.

György Martin Zoltán Zsuráfszky Kossuth Prize-winning choreographer , started the series, which revolutionizes Hungarian stage folk dance, as a tribute to the work of the great scientist. The programs present the authentic dance processes and outstanding dance personalities of each region, known and mastered in the most profound and detailed way.

The Live Dance Archive gives viewers the opportunity to learn about the richness and beauty of their own dance and music culture. In the five-part series, you can get to know the dances of Kalotaszeg, Mezőség, Bonchida, Gyimes and Szatmár based on the collections of György Martin and his colleagues and Zoltán Zsuráfszky. , quoted Zoltán Kallós to Origo as long as we sing and dance in Hungarian, we will be Hungarian.

 

 

Zoltán Zsuráfszky: The series starts on January 11 and will consist of five parts. Indeed, at these performances, we present a folk dance from a large ethnographic landscape unit in an almost original, monographic arrangement. In the series, you will see the dances of Kalotaszeg, Bonchida, Szatmár, Gyimes and Mezőség. Gyimesi is especially dear to me, because in 1980 - exactly 42 years ago - at the beginning of August, we filmed the dance in a barn at the request of Martin György, an Erkel Prize-winning Hungarian dance historian and ethnographer. This was the first big sound film we shot in Gyimes, and we have now processed this material in the series. It has been my dream for years to bring this dance back to where it was collected and to present it there, in its own environment. A few years ago, I managed to return it to the original location, which was a great pleasure for me. The dance material from Gyimes is one of my favorite materials of the Live Dance Archive, as well as the beautiful dance from Kalotaszeg, which was inspired by the original film recorded by György Martin in 1969.

We have about 120-140 shows per year. We are there at almost every festival, every major event, and every major cultural institution. On the fifth of January, viewers could see it, for example, at the Müpa. The government is supporting this branch of folk culture, the folk music movement and professional dance to an unprecedented extent. It was a great pleasure for us that the Prime Minister and his lovely wife watched our program called Toborzó, and we saw that they both left the room moved after the show. At the Peace March in October, the world-famous opera singer Levente Molnár sang the song that the audience heard for the first time in our program. Levente also commented on our joint work that it is really worth working with the artists of the dance group, because they are Hungarian souls by blood, who show the Hungarian folk dance culture at the highest level.

For which we are most grateful and happiest, that thanks to the Hungarian government, we will finally have a newly built beautiful headquarters. We are looking forward to it. A new theater has not been built in Budapest for twenty years - this will be a really large-scale investment. The plans are ready, construction can begin.

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