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Gondolatok a 27. Országos Szólótáncfesztivál selejtezői kapcsán
- Issue: 2024/6
- Starting page: 15
- Author: Busai Norbert
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Thoughts following the qualifying rounds for the 27th national solo folk dance competition. Included in the regulations for competing in this national competition: "…The solo folk dance competition gives [Hungary’s] best folk dancers the opportunity to demonstrate not only their knowledge of a given authentic folk dance; but also their own performance style. While helping to preserve and pass on the wealth of Hungarian folk dance." Some tips on performance are offered here for the competing dancers mainly in the form of where on the internet to look for original archive films of dances included in the competition material. Selected studies are recommended for reading, especially four articles (by Martin György, Karácsony Zoltán, Andrásfalvy Bertalan) on improvisation in Hungarian folk dance. There are also a number of quotes from informant interviews with traditional village dancers (most born between the two world wars) mainly addressing the good dancers in a village, the joy of dancing, who they inherited their dancing ability from, and learning and being inspired to dance by watching older generations and/or family members dance. By Busai Norbert.