Articles by Initial Letters
Beszélgetés Karácsony Zoltánnal
(Budapest)
- Issue: 2011/x
- Starting page: 57
- Author: Albert Zsuzsa
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Karácsony Zoltán (born 1963 ’Scientific colleague’ in the Folk Music and Folk Dance Research Department of the Institute of Musicology) was Martin’s student - final couple years. Karácsony gives a summary of the kinds of knowledge and skills necessary for dance research. Before Martin’s death, he collected with Martin in Northeastern Hungary and Transylvania. He too talks about Martin’s innate capability to immediately connect with and put the village dancer informants at ease, so that they could be filmed dancing. He discusses some of Martin’s finer points about notating dance (using Laban notation) and Martin’s wider perspective which defined three European dance regions: Balkan (circle, line dance – the oldest), Carpathian Basin (solo, couple dances – from the Renaissance), Western Europe (fixed dance structures).