44th National Táncház Festival & Fair • 4–6 April 2025
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Interview: Hégli Dusán of Pozsony/Bratislava, Slovakia: choreographer, folk dancer, director of professional folk dance groups: Ifjú Szivek and Dusan Hegli Company. Dusán comes from the Hungarian community in Slovakia and his work centers mainly on dance traditions of Slovakia’s Hungarian minority. He has been active since the 1980s. He talks a bit about the process of collecting and developing the Hungarian dances of Slovakia for the dance house model. He has taught and choreographed extensively in Hungary as well. The Ifjú Szivek company is financed by the Slovak government. When Dusán began dealing with contemporary and controversial issues/problems in his choreography, his usual sources of funding refused to support these projects. He then formed Dusan Hegli Company as a framework for this kind of project. His groups perform in Slovakia, Hungary, Europe and further abroad as well. He has been invited to show his work many times at a theatre festival in Avignon. He is interested in:…addressing the ’universal problems that affect you and I, and anyone else using traditional movement culture and – arrangements of – traditional music. Conversation with Grozdits Károly.