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Cselik Mária 80 éves
- Issue: 2024/5
- Starting page: 20
- Author: Felföldi László
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Celebrating traditional dancer of Hungary’s Kalocsa-Sárköz region: Cselik Mária on her 80th birthday. Mária recieved the title ’Master of Folk Arts’ in 1995. Her beautiful dancing and life story have been well documented and can be found in the national folk dance archives, a book by Tamás László, a documentary film by Sztanó Hédi and numerous interviews and papers. Born into a farming family in Felsőerek, Hungary in 1944, she inherited her love of dance and dance experience from her mother’s family and dancing in the Drágszél Folk Dance Group. Before retirement she was a mathematics and physics teacher in an elementary school in Kalocsa. For decades her dancing partner was well-known local traditional dancer Vén Ferenc. Printed here is dance ethnographer Felföldi László’s greeting at her birthday celebration on September 1, 2024 in the town of Kalocsa – more information about Cselik Mária: www.nepmuveszetmereserei.hu.