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Thoughts onthe need for natural performance style forstage performance of Hungarian folk dance. This study examines folk dance for stage. First mentioned isthe commonly held belief that staged folk dance can only be impressive when every movement is unnaturally enlarged, speeded up, exaggeratedand accompanied byloud music and blinding lights. Following trends of ballet-infused Moseijev stylization of the mid 1900s; the 1970s brought a new approach to staged Hungarian folk dance – a more folkloristically natural performance style with ethnographically correct music and costume. However, that trend has since evolved into a kind of uniform authentic folk dance wherein the dancers must be able to reproduce exact replicas of the figures and movements from dance documented in the villages, accompanied with big smiles and forced yells.This produces nothing more than a folksy, fake peasant dance. The author here encourages a more natural and unique performance style –calling on dancers and choreographers to strive to pass on the relaxed dancing style of the village dancers anddance events with the improvisationthat makes this dance so beautiful.ByTransylvanian ethnographer, choreographer Könczei Csongor.