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Élet és Irodalom – LXVIII. évfolyam, 7. szám, 2024. február 16.
- Issue: 2024/2
- Starting page: 6
- Author: Grecsó Krisztián
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Grecsó Krisztián: This article discusses the 50 year old adult level solo folk dance competition held every two years in the town of Békescsaba in Eastern Hungary and its YouTube channel (Országos Szólótáncfesztivál) which has current as well as archive video footage of competitors at this festival over the years. The author recommends specific videos of three dancers: Balogh Béla, Gál László, Kökény Richárd. While not the main point of the article, he makes an observation on the method used for documenting the dancers in the competition: „At first I thought that the fixed camera position would be disturbing, but upon comparison with examples from the recent televised Páva folk competition where the camera flies like a peacock, dips and turns, shows the background lighting…..[I realized] we see everything BUT what the dancer is really doing…” First published in Élet és Irodalom 2024 February 16.