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The current season started with great momentum at the Csernakeresztúri Traditional Heritage Association, where scholarship holders of the Petőfi program, maintained by the Hungarian government, have been assisting local efforts for several years now. "Over the past two years we had the great fortune to work very successfully with Mónika Fábián, a folk dance instructor. This year we feel even more fortunate, since Árpád Vörös, founder and director of the Budapesti Tébláb Art School, has come to us as a scholarship holder to work with the children in our dance group. But already in the first weeks I can see that he has taken on even more than that, because he also teaches at the local kindergarten and school, and now he has invited his musician friends to organize a dance house for the Hungarian community of Csernakeresztúri and the surrounding area," said with joy Juliánna Szabó, president of the Csernakeresztúri traditional heritage association.
Árpád Vörös, by his own account, strives with great openness and humility to get to know and, in the noblest sense of the word, serve the Csernakeresztúri community. Since his arrival just over a month ago, the dance group has already had nine performances. He has registered the children for a folk song competition, and he willingly takes on regular dance house hosting as well, since the weekend event has made it clear: there is great demand for it.
To the dance house announced for Saturday afternoon, locals were joined by interested people from Vajdahunyad, Déva, and Timișoara. Musicians recruited from the BorFolk Orchestra and the Jánosi Ensemble played lively folk dances with enthusiasm and gladly told stories about their instruments. The guiding thread was naturally provided by Bukovina music, as dancers, musicians, and instructors all had some connection to the Bukovina Székely community. But Felcsík and Mezőség music and dance could not be left out either. And so that the company would not tire too much, the evening's special guest: Éva Fábián, storyteller and folk singer, entertained the dance-loving guests with colorful Bukovina stories and songs. "My father, Lajos Fábián, was born here in Csernakeresztúri, so much of my paternal relatives still live here. In my youth I came with a small tape recorder and collected the Bukovina songs that were still known and sung back then. I transferred these recordings to a flash drive and brought them here to Csernakeresztúri so that the children and young people could hear the folk songs in their original performance. There will surely be someone who recognizes grandmother's voice," said Éva Fábián, who also told how she collected from her father's former classmate the old maid's song performed at the weekend dance house.
The performer, received with great warmth, not only sang and told stories in her flavorful, sweet mother tongue, but also gladly listened to the songs of the local girls preparing for the folk song competition.
Then she and her folk musician colleague Zoltán Szabó set out and traveled through every corner of the county. At the beginning of this week they told stories, sang and danced at the Déva Téglás Gábor Theoretical Lyceum, at the Saint Francis Foundation's houses in Déva, Săcueni and Petroșani, and even traveled to Lupeni.
At every venue, the Petőfi program scholarship holders also helped with the organization: Annamária Szabó, Erzsébet Orosz, Carina Timaru and Melinda Jeszenszky, as well as Árpád Vörös who accompanied the team throughout, who with the support of the House of Hungarydom and the State Secretariat for National Policy managed to create truly joyful occasions for Hungarian communities in Hunyad County.
The weekend event in Csernakeresztúri was announced as an "opening dance house" for the season. So beyond our heartfelt thanks, we look forward to the continuation: the establishment of the dance house movement in Hunyad County as well!
Árpád Vörös, by his own account, strives with great openness and humility to get to know and, in the noblest sense of the word, serve the Csernakeresztúri community. Since his arrival just over a month ago, the dance group has already had nine performances. He has registered the children for a folk song competition, and he willingly takes on regular dance house hosting as well, since the weekend event has made it clear: there is great demand for it.
To the dance house announced for Saturday afternoon, locals were joined by interested people from Vajdahunyad, Déva, and Timișoara. Musicians recruited from the BorFolk Orchestra and the Jánosi Ensemble played lively folk dances with enthusiasm and gladly told stories about their instruments. The guiding thread was naturally provided by Bukovina music, as dancers, musicians, and instructors all had some connection to the Bukovina Székely community. But Felcsík and Mezőség music and dance could not be left out either. And so that the company would not tire too much, the evening's special guest: Éva Fábián, storyteller and folk singer, entertained the dance-loving guests with colorful Bukovina stories and songs. "My father, Lajos Fábián, was born here in Csernakeresztúri, so much of my paternal relatives still live here. In my youth I came with a small tape recorder and collected the Bukovina songs that were still known and sung back then. I transferred these recordings to a flash drive and brought them here to Csernakeresztúri so that the children and young people could hear the folk songs in their original performance. There will surely be someone who recognizes grandmother's voice," said Éva Fábián, who also told how she collected from her father's former classmate the old maid's song performed at the weekend dance house.
The performer, received with great warmth, not only sang and told stories in her flavorful, sweet mother tongue, but also gladly listened to the songs of the local girls preparing for the folk song competition.
Then she and her folk musician colleague Zoltán Szabó set out and traveled through every corner of the county. At the beginning of this week they told stories, sang and danced at the Déva Téglás Gábor Theoretical Lyceum, at the Saint Francis Foundation's houses in Déva, Săcueni and Petroșani, and even traveled to Lupeni.
At every venue, the Petőfi program scholarship holders also helped with the organization: Annamária Szabó, Erzsébet Orosz, Carina Timaru and Melinda Jeszenszky, as well as Árpád Vörös who accompanied the team throughout, who with the support of the House of Hungarydom and the State Secretariat for National Policy managed to create truly joyful occasions for Hungarian communities in Hunyad County.
The weekend event in Csernakeresztúri was announced as an "opening dance house" for the season. So beyond our heartfelt thanks, we look forward to the continuation: the establishment of the dance house movement in Hunyad County as well!
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