This performance presents the historical process of the birth and survival of our Hungarian dance heritage, from our most ancient folk customs up to the period of the dance-house movement of the 1970's. Ancient Hungarian life and colorful history come to life, but instead of wars that can be learnt from history books, social gatherings and ancient celebrations are presented.

Several centuries of European culture and history have disappeared in the mists of time and myth...

After Antiquity, waves of great migrations came, followed by centuries of Christianity creating a unified, but still diverse culture in this part of the world.

In a dance-language inherited from our ancestors, this performance tells stories of human emotion, chronicles of magnificent battles between love and death, all through the characteristic colors of Spring (birth), Summer (consummation), Autumn (loss) and Winter (dance macabre).

based on László Nagy’s poem “Wedding”

”Two human stars, married for eternity, for good and truthfulness.”

It is a piece against decay and destruction, against all retracting forces, a piece for the youth.

The Hungarian State Folk Ensemble’s Mezőség – Microcosm draws on the music and dance traditions of the region of central Transylvania known as the Mezőség.  Located north of the city of Kolozsvár, this rolling landscape of hills and shallow valleys has oft been likened to a “dead sea” –an apt simile, given that millions of years ago, the landscape lay beneath a billowing Pannonian Sea, known today from the sediments it left behind.

The programme has been created for the North-American tour of the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble in 2013. The show has been performed in the biggest cities, concert halls and theatres of the USA and Canada from New York City to San Francisco and from Toronto to Miami.

„… their splendid show  was given a standing ovation by the enthusiastic audience”

Kronika Chicago

Hommage à Bartók Béla

The political cataclysm of the nineties had resulted in the emergence of new democracies in Central and East Europe. The living memory of the revolution of 1956 had made Hungary a protagonist of such changes. A new Hungarian Republic was born. This signi-ficant historic event fundamentally and quickly reshaped our economic, social and cultural environment. However, the whole world is continuously changing and we are influenced by these changes.