43rd National Táncház Festival & Fair • 5–7 April 2024
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Intensive Folk Dance – "yoga–folk" is a method devised by a Hungarian dancer with a masters in teaching folk dance from the Hungarian Academy of Dance. It aims to teach Hungarian folk dance to adults on an amateur level and incorporates yoga into the classic folk dance training and warm-up exercises. "I have selected exercises that most effectively develop the specific skills necessary for Hungarian folk dance." "Yoga…is the opposite of the jumping, stamping and dynamic movements of folk dance: we also work with yoga’s slow, static body positions.." "...yoga and folk dance, in body, mind and spirit complement and support one another nicely through their differences." By Horányi-Pirók Panka. www.intenzivneptanc.hu