Sunlegend spectacularly features the perfect harmony of Nikola Parov's music and Gábor Mihályi's choreography. The show meets the requirements of the 21st century audience, being a unique and powerful combination of the ancient motives, the dynamic quality of traditional movements, mysticism and music in a fresh, modern tone.
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 performance shows for the first time in the history of Hungarian folk dance the colourful and rich traditional culture of the nations living in Eastern Carpathia as well as in its beyond, Transcarpathia: Hungarians, Ukrainians, Ruthenes, Romanians, Gipsies, and Jews.
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”
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.
The Hungarian State Folk Ensemble is performing a series of three interrelated dance theater shows called Bartók Trilogy. The first part of the trilogy, titled "Treasures from North"appeared in 2006.
By creating Highland Treasures, the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble pioneers the presentation of an overview of dance and music that originated from an ethnically diverse area in present-day Slovakia.
This performance of the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble presents the folk tradition of the Carpathian Basin from the perspective of the masculine principle. It is a “rebirthing” of rituals narrated in the language of folk dance, folk music, and folk poetry.
This Transylvanian Anthology of the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble is one of the products of a lengthy artistic process that aims to examine the relevance and significance of our traditional culture in present-day life.
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