43rd National Táncház Festival & Fair • 5–7 April 2024
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Starting page: 34
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A history of the dance house movement in Slovakia. The Vadrózsák (of Őrsújfalu/Nová Stráž) and Hajós (of Komárom/Komárno) ensembles, along with the names Hodek Mária and Katona István are mentioned here as instrumental in starting Slovakia’s dance house movement. In Slovakia the movement has been going on for 25 years. Names of festivals, meetings, summer camps, workshops, more groups and names of the key teachers involved in introducing the dance house teaching methods and approach to material. Material taught has been from: Transylvania, Dunántúl, Tiszahát, Hortobágy and traditional dances/music from the Slovakian regions of: Csallóköz, Mátyusföld, Ipoly mente, Hont, Nógrád, Gömör, Bódva, Hernád, Bodrogköz. Report by Takács András of Pozsony/Bratislava, Slovakia.