North-American Dance-House Reunion

The first three days of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival June 26-28 will include the North-American Dance-House Reunion.You can join free to advanced dance tutoring, performances and evening dance-houses. North American music bands and dance groups with advance registration will be featured in the festival program. At the narrative stage the history and importance of Hungarian folk dance-movement in North America will be discussed with leading American and Hungarian figures of the movement.

One of the highlights of the reunion will be a Gala Dance: Össztánc with all the North American dancers, who would like to join us. Anyone, INDIVIDUAL DANCERS or members of dance groups can join the choreography with learning the dance material on the videos, see the links below. Although it is a couple dance two women can also dance it together if they do not have a male dance-partner.

The dance material is from RÁBAKÖZ (Northwest Hungary)

Rábaközi csárdás, sortánc and friss csárdás

The first verse of the first tune is free improvised dance.

From the second verse starts the fixed choreography.

There are three videos:

Download the music

Texts of the songs:

Csárdás:

Sej, a szanyi hármas torony nem látszik
Körös-körül Rába vize hullámzik
Rába vize ne mosd el az utamat
Úgyis ritkán látom a galambomat.

Sej, a szanyi vasútállomáson
Három gőzös áll a negyedik vágányon
Az elsőnek, jaj, de füstöl a kéménye
Azon visznek a hármas határszélre.

Sortánc:

Nyisd ki, babám, az ajtót
Csendesen, mert meghallják a szomszédok

Friss:

Az én rózsám karjai, karjai
Nem akarnak hajlani levelet írni
Meg kell annak hajlani levelet írni
Ha meg akar ölelni, csókolni.

North American Dance Gala – INCLUDING Gala Dance (Ossztanc) with material from Rábaköz will be performed three times on Friday, June 28th, between 11 -12PM, 3 – 4PM, and 7:30 – 8:30PM.

ONLY Gala Dance (Össztánc) with material from Rábaköz will be performed on Thursday, June 27th, between 7:30 – 8:30PM

Rehearsals of the Gala Dance with material from Rábaköz will be scheduled later.

With further questions please contact:

Ildiko Nagy – ildiko.nagy33@gmail.com, Cell: (347) 3389773

We kindly ask you please register on the following website: http://www.eventbrite.com

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