Budapest Bartók Dance Ensemble

A Hundred Years Ago

 

The ensemble has been found in 1958. Due to the scientific achievements and friendship of the great folk music and dance researcher, György Martin the founder of the ensemble Sándor Timár could develop his incomparable dance training method here. So thus improvisational authentic folk dance on stage could have been seen for the first time presented by the Bartók Dance Ensemble, that’s why the ensemble became the center and the propagator of the dance house movement in all over the world. Up to these days their aim is to present our folk heritage authentically on the stage. One of the most important among their many awards is undoubtedly the European Prize for Folk Art.

 

 

Part I - A Hundred Years Ago

 

1. We came here for playing music – Dances from Mezőkölpény

2. Péter and Mariska – Péter and Mariska Szuromi’s dances of Tyukod

3. Girls’s round dance from Zemplén

4. Circle verbunk – Man’s dance from Rábaköz

5. On a Sunday afternoon – Dances from Mezőföld

6. Music

7. Gipsy dances from Nagyecsed

 

 

Part II - Palóc nuptials (from the North-Eastern Hungary)

 

In Hungary around the nuptials a very reach, colourful world of customs has developed and it is particularly true in the palóc weddings. The palóc people are living north, north-eastern from the capital. In this part of the performance you can see the typical momentums of the palóc nuptials according to dances and customs of three palóc villages (Rimóc, Domaháza and Kartal).

 

1. Dances from Rimóc

2. Girl’s round dance – gril’s merriment, the bride’s farewell

3. Bachelor day – Verbunk and fast dance of Domaháza

4. Wedding – asking for the bride, the groom’s verbunk, nuptial ceremony

5. Nuptial rejoicement – the dances of the nuptial of Kartal

 

 

Performed by the Orchestra of the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble and István „Gázsa” Papp

Editor-director-artistic director: Tamás Szappanos

Coreographers: Irén Deffend, Tamás Szappanos, Sándor Tímár, Katalin Balogh, Zoltán Varga

Costumes: Irén Deffend

Chairman of the ensemble: Fruzsina Dóra