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Beszélgetés Kallós Zoltánnal
(Budapest)
- Issue: 2011/x
- Starting page: 32
- Author: Albert Zsuzsa
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Kallós Zoltán (1926 – 2018 Válaszút/ Răscruci, Romania. Transylvanian-Hungarian ethnographer, musicologist). Of the Hungarian ethnographers, it was Andrásfalvy that Kallós met first in 1955. Kallós didn’t meet Martin until the sixties when it was possible to go to Hungary again after 1956. He talks about doing collaborative collection work with Martin in Transylvania’s Kalotaszeg, Mezőség, Gyimes regions, but Martin wasn’t able to go to Moldavia. However Martin did document dances amongst Moldavian Csángo Hungarians who had relocated to Hungary. Kallós talks also about: dance events and customs surrounding them in Transylvania; legényes type men’s dances in Transylvania, implement dances, animal imitation dances in Transylvania."Martin danced everywhere. Before collection or after collection – this helped to encourage the informants to dance, to get them in the mood to dance. Everywhere, anywhere we went to document the dances he would also dance. He loved to dance. But he liked the legényes dance the best… The main characteristic of the Hungarian dances is that they are improvisational…"