Articles by Initial Letters
Beszélgetés Héra Évával
(Budapest)
- Issue: 2011/x
- Starting page: 45
- Author: Albert Zsuzsa
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Héra Éva (approx. same generation as Halmos and Sebő - cultural organizer, president of Muharay Elemér Folk Arts Association). Héra Éva worked with Martin, Timár Sándor and Koltay Gergely on how to organize the Kassák Klub (early venue and center for dance house events). Later after 1978 Éva went to work at the Institute of Culture (today the Hungarian Heritage House). Martin’s idea was to organize on a national level to popularize and institutionalize the dance house methods. For example at the Kassak Klub they held dance houses and courses on playing authentic folk music and for leaders of folk dance groups to learn how to implement dance house methods and authentic folk material into their group repertoire. "They always stressed the importance of immediately teaching material collected to the dancers of a performing group." Martin was amongst the teachers of these courses. "A national meeting of folk dancers was held, of which the task was to get an overview of dance teaching in the various regions and to assess the situation of artistic life. For that conference Martin wrote an article about methods and formats for folk dance teaching. On the basis of that, they reorganized folk dance teaching everywhere in the country…today this method is used everywhere from elementary schools through the National Academy of Dance.”