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Varga Lia: Virágvasárnap
Szokáskoreográfia elemzése
- Issue: 2023/2
- Starting page: 33
- Serie: Szokáskoreográfia elemzése
- Author: Brusznyai Erik
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Analysis of a choreography presenting Palm Sunday folk customs from the Ipoly/Ipel and Zobor regions of Western Slovakia. The piece was choreographed by Varga Lia and danced by the Kis Rakonca Folk Dance Ensemble as part of a 2015 performance. The choreography portrayed customs where girls of a village made a doll of straw, dressed it as a bride, then ceremoniously took it around the village. In due course, the straw doll was undressed and thrown in the river or burned. The doll’s headscarf was then tied on a young girl’s head and two older girls escorted the younger girl back to the village hand in hand. For this dance/pagent-play custom the girls sing without band accompaniment. Analysis by Brusznyai Erik – as part of an assignment for students at the Hungarian Academy of Dance. The students’ task is to analyze choreographies with themes of folk customs and explain differences between the source materials and the adaptation for stage. Selected analyses are published as a series in folkMAGazin this year.