The Hungarian dance hall movement has been alive and well since the 70s.
They are preparing for a folk dance record on Kossuth Square on Friday, said Katalin Balatoni, Deputy State Secretary for Public Education of the Ministry of the Interior, on the current channel M1 on Thursday morning.
The experiment is connected to the European Sports Week and is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Innovation.
The aim of the initiative is to express our Hungarianness and identity, as Hungarian culture is also very rich on a global level. The state secretary added that folk dance now fits into pedagogical processes and also serves to develop competences.
Béla Ónodi, a teacher at the University of Dance, said in the program: on Friday, from 5 p.m., around 600 children between the ages of 10 and 14 will dance according to a common choreography in front of the Parliament, and then a Moldovan csangó dance hall will start, which anyone can join on the spot. With this, I want to break the current record.
The specialist pointed out: the Hungarian dance hall movement has been alive and well since the 70s. It is not only a good community-building leisure activity, but it also gives culture and identity, an important part of the sense of being Hungarian, and it is good for children to connect with all of this.
MTI
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