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Takács András: Találkozásaim Martin Györggyel
(Pozsony)
- Issue: 2011/x
- Starting page: 28
- Author: Albert Zsuzsa
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Takács András (born 1931. Slovak-Hungarian folk dance collector, choreographer). Takács met Martin György in the fall of 1956 when Takács spent 40 days in Budapest on a course studying folk dance choreography, ethnographic dance research collection methods. Takács at the time worked as ’special lecturer of folk dance of the minority’ at the House of Slovakian Folk Arts in Bratislava. Martin was a folk dance researcher and young research candidate at the Institute of Ethnography in Budapest and was both a teacher and a student on the course. This writing is mainly an account of that meeting, the course and how that time determined Takács’s work for the rest of his life. He remained in contact with Martin and conducted field research together with him and other researchers from Hungary in countless communities in Slovakia (listed in the piece). Martin frequently attended folklore festivals in Slovakia. In the wake of what he learned during his time in Budapest in 1956, Takács established contact with Slovak researcher Stefan Tóth and others at the Slovak Institute of Musicology/Academy of Sciences. Reprinted from FolkMAGazin 2003/3.