The folklore performance Home in the Homeland is on stage again. In the last month of the year we will stage the production directed by Módos Máté and Módosné Almási Berta Csilla in the countryside and in Sf. Gheorghe.
At the beginning of December, the audience of Gheorgheni can get acquainted with the authentic folk costumes and dances of Hungary and Transcarpathia. As part of our festive programme, we will also bid farewell to the year 2023 with our performance "Home in the Homeland" on 27 and 28 December.
More about the performance: Home in the Homeland
This month is also about the joy of children, and our World Famous Redever dance show is a must. On 11 December we are looking forward to welcoming the little ones to the Háromszék Dance Studio for an organised performance.
More about the performance: World Famous Redever
Our traditional Christmas Folk Dance House will be held on Wednesday, 27 December in the lobby of Tamási Áron Theatre.
Programme:
| 7 December (Thursday) 19:00 | Home in the Homeland | Joseni Petőfi Cultural House |
| 11 December (Monday) 10:00 | World Famous Redever Organised performance | Sf. Gheorghe Háromszék Dance Studio |
| 27 December (Wednesday) 19:00 | Home in the Homeland | Sf. Gheorghe Háromszék Dance Studio |
| 27 December (Wednesday) 21:00 | Christmas Folk Dance House | Sf. Gheorghe Lobby of Háromszék Dance Studio, Lobby of Tamási Áron Theatre |
| 28 December (Thursday) 19:00 | Home in the Homeland | Sf. Gheorghe Háromszék Dance Studio |
Tickets for our performances in Sfântu Gheorghe can be purchased at the Central Ticket Office.
The office is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Fridays, and one hour before the performances. Phone number: 0267-312104.
The 33rd edition of the Folk Dance and Music Festival a children's show in Covasna, and a tour complete this month's programme.
This year, the 33rd Folk Dance and Music Festival will be held in Sfântu Gheorghe. The event will take place at the Tamási Áron Theatre on 10 November and at the Sepsi Arena on 11 November.
Traditional dancers and musicians, children and youth folk dance groups will perform, but there will also be a lad's dance competition, film screenings, exhibitions, a rich children's programme, a craft fair and house of folk dance! Live performances by Szalonna and his Band, András Berecz and the Kolompos Ensemble. The State Folkloric Ensemble of Hungary will be the special guest of the event, with two high quality performances.
Details and ticket info: Folk Dance and Music Festival, ed.33.
In the second half of the month, we will be re-running our children's production of the World Famous Redever. Children can meet our favourite characters - Redever, King Gyuri, the princesses, Master Lágyi, Albi and Levente in Covasna and Târgu Mures.
More about the peformance: World Famous Redever
Programme:
| November 10. (péntek) 16:00 – 02:00 | Folk Dance and Music Festival, ed.33. | Sf. Gheorghe Tamási Áron Theatre |
| November 11. (szombat) 10:00 – 02:00 | Folk Dance and Music Festival, ed.33. | Sf. Gheorghe Sepsi Aréna |
| 16 November (Thursday) 10:00 and 12:00 | World Famous Redever | Covasna City House of Culture |
| November 22. (szerda) 10:00 és 12:00 | World Famous Redever | Tg. Mureș Maros Art Ensemble auditorium |
| November 23. (csütörtök) 10:00 | World Famous Redever | Tg. Mureș Maros Art Ensemble auditorium |
Tickets for the 33rd Folk Dance and Music Festival can be purchased in advance at the Central Ticket Office or on site.
Opening hours: Monday and Wednesday from 08.00 to 16.00, Tuesday and Thursday from 08.00 to 18.00, Friday from 08.00 to 15.00, and one hour before performances. Phone number: 0267-312104.
For the ninth time, the Lajtha László Foundation and the Háromszék Dance Ensemble are organising the Szeklerland Lad's Dance Competition, as part of the 33rd Folk Dance and Music Festival.
The dance competition will take place on Saturday 11 November at 10 am at Sepsi Arena.
Dance material: Korcsos Dance from Pălatca
The competition consists of two parts:
The following folklore databases, videos and music can help you in your preparation: https://youtu.be/Y9Sqc0GoUjg?si=9GfjdI3syzocv7jZ https://ehh.ro/…/Pala…/04_magyarpalatkai_suru_magyar.mp3 , https://ehh.ro/…/Palatkai/05_magyarpalatkai_korcsos.mp3
www.folkmedia.ro , www.db.zti.hu , www.folkloradatbazis.hu , www.videotorium.hu
The IXth Szeklerland Lad's Dance Competition awards prizes, including cash prizes:
How to apply:
The competition is open only to amateur dancers who are not dancing in a professional ensemble.
Deadline for application: 6 November 2023.
To apply, please fill in the following document:
(https://docs.google.com/…/14hvdKkqdzPUsKNzJEZEE…/edit… ) and send it to .
Participation is free of charge.
For more information:
Melles Endre, tel. 0748668539,
Organiser: Lajtha László Foundation.
Partner: Háromszék Dance Ensemble
Sponsors : Bethlen Gábor Fund and Communitas Foundation
The Folk Dance and Music Festival will take place for the 33rd time on 10-11 November 2023 in Sfântu Gheorghe, organised by Háromszék Dance Ensemble and the Lajtha László Foundation. In connection with the event, a drawing competition for schoolchildren aged 6-10 will be held under the title "Dancing heroes of fairy tales". We encourage children to dress up their favourite characters in folk costumes, and imagine how they dance when they hear the sound of a violin or a bass.
How to apply:
Deadline: 26 October 2023 (postmark)
Evaluation, prizes: the 1st, 2nd, 3rd place winners and the audience prize winner will be awarded with a family ticket for 4 to the 33rd Folk Dance and Music Festival and a gift package.
The audience prize will be accorded to the work with the most likes on our Facebook page.
An exhibition of the works will be opened at Sepsi Arena on Saturday at the Folk Dance and Music Festival, where we also offer a rich and varied programme for children. There will be a folk dance gala for children and young people, Berecz András and the Kolompos ensemble will be invited, and there will also be children's activities, storytelling and singing lessons.
In October we will embark on a multi-stop national and international tour. Our dance theatre production Tragedy, based on Madách's play, will premiere in one Romanian and four Hungarian cities. Between 24 and 28 October, we will present the production directed by Árpád Könczei in Oradea, as well as in Debrecen, Kecskemét, Budapest and Veszprém, co-organised with the National Dance Theatre.
More about the performance: Tragedy
TOUR PROGRAMME:
The folklore performance "We will live free" and the dance theatre production "Tragedy" are back on stage. We will treat our audience to a 5-stop national and international tour in October.
This year we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Petőfi Sándor. We will stage the folklore performance "We will live free" in the framework of the Szekler Land Days in Bodoc, Ghelința, Zăbala and Vârghiș.
More about the performance: We will live free
Our dance theatre production "Tragedy", based on Madách's work, will premiere in one Romanian and four Hungarian cities. Between 24 and 28 October, the production, directed by Árpád Könczei, will be presented in Oradea and in Debrecen, Kecskemét, Budapest and Veszprém, co-organised by the National Dance Theatre.
More about the performance: Tragedy
Monthly program:
| 5 October (Thursday) 19:00 | We will live free | Sf. Gheorghe Háromszék Dance Studio |
| 6 October (Friday) 13:00 | We will live free organised performance | Sf. Gheorghe Háromszék Dance Studio |
| 10 October (Tuesday) 19:00 | We will live free | Bodoc Szekler Land Days Cultural House |
| 11 October (Wednesday) 19:00 | We will live free | Ghelința Szekler Land Days Cultural House |
| 12 October (Thursday) 19:00 | We will live free | Zăbala Szekler Land Days Cultural House |
| 13 October (Friday) 19:00 | We will live free | Vârghiș Szekler Land Days Cultural House |
| 18 October (Wednesday) 19:00 | Tragedy | Sf. Gheorghe Háromszék Dance Studio |
| 19 October (Thursday) 19:00 | Tragedy | Brașov Hungarian Theatre Festival, VIIth ed. Dramatic Theatre |
| 24 October (Tuesday) 19:00 | Tragedy | Oradea Szigligeti Theatre |
| 25 October (Wednesday) 19:00 | Tragedy | Debrecen Csokonai Fórum, Latinovits Zoltán Hall |
| 26 October (Thursday) 19:00 | Tragedy | Kecskemét Hírös Agóra Cultural Centre, Theatre Hall |
| 27 October (Friday) 19:00 | Tragedy | Budapest National Dance Theatre |
| 28 October (Saturday) 19:00 | Tragedy | Veszprém Veszprémi Petőfi Theatre |
Tickets for our performances in Sfântu Gheorghe can be purchased at the Central Ticket Office.
Opening hours: Monday and Wednesday from 08.00 to 16.00, Tuesday and Thursday from 08.00 to 18.00, Friday from 08.00 to 15.00, and one hour before performances. Phone number: 0267-312104.
The "Csiky Gergely" Hungarian State Theatre from Timișoara will be in Sfântu Gheorghe with a guest performance, Caravaggio at Háromszék Dance Studio on 29 September, starting at 19:00.
Caravaggio
He did not use the colour blue because it reminded him of the plague, the cause of his father's death. He used beggars and prostitutes as models for his paintings, whose integrity he defended to the end, until he himself was submerged in their dark world.
A rebel, an adventurer, a fugitive, a friend of the outcast and marginalised, yet still enjoying the grace of the Church, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio redefined the concept of the shadow of light in painting and lived his life with passion to the last drop. An extraordinary and entertaining biography, a different kind of immersion in the world of light and shadows.
"The most quoted example of Caravaggio's iconoclasm is the painting The Call of St Matthew: Jesus' gesture of Matthew to the tax collector copies Michelangelo's familiar hand gesture from the Sistine Chapel ceiling fresco of God creating Adam, the first man. For Caravaggio, every man who knows himself in the divine light is also the first man, which is not only theologically accurate in a sophisticated way, but also, if we think about it, an unpretentious and suberb (self-)announcement of modernity." (András Visky)
Creators
Director: Visky Andrej
Décor: Luminaxis Studio
Costumes: Csegöldi Erika
Music: Visky Péter
Coreographer: Szekrényes László
Cast
Caravaggio: Balázs Attila
Cecco: Erdős Bálint
Onorio Longhi, Giovanni Baglione, Ranuccio Tomassoni: Jancsó Előd
Fermo Merisi, Pope: Kocsárdi Levente
Orazio Gentileschi, Del Monte: Bandi András Zsolt
Lena Antognetti, Angel: Vajda Boróka
Lucia Aratori, Fillide Melandroni, Angel: Borbély B. Emília
Giuditta, Prudenzia Bruni, Angel: Vadász Bernadett
Ticket info coming soon!
Transylvanian Dance House Meeting, mini-tour in Hungary, performances in the countryside and in Sfântu Gheorghe will enrich our September programme.
Between 7-9 September, our ensemble will participate at the Transylvanian Dance House Meeting in Odorheiu Secuiesc, where the Transylvanian Hungarian Professional Folk Dance Ensembles will meet and perform a joint gala performance in the Municipal Sports Hall.
Detailed programme: Erdélyi Táncháztalálkozó 2023 (ehh.ro)
We have been invited to the Veszprém FOLK 2023 Folk and World Music Festival, which will take place in Veszprém, the European Capital of Culture, from 15 to 17 September. We will perform our new folklore show "Home in the Homeland" on Saturday 16th on the main stage of Óváros Square.
More about the festival: https://veszpremfolk.hu
More about the performance: Hazától hazáig - Háromszék Táncegyüttes (hte.ro)
Our opening performance of the season in Sfântu Gheorghe will take place on the 20th of September. We will present our performance "Home in the Homeland" at Háromszék Dance Studio, which will be open to the public the following day at the Municipal Culture Centre in Baraolt.
Monthly Programme:
| 9 September (Saturday) 18:00 | Gala Performance- Joint show of the Transylvanian Hungarian Professional Folk Dance Ensembles | Odorheiu Secuiesc Transylvanian Dance House Meeting 2023 Municipal Sports Hall |
| 16 September (Saturday) 19:00 | Home in the Homeland | Veszprém Veszprém FOLK 2023 Main stage of Óváros Square |
| 20 September (Wednesday) 19:00 | Home in the Homeland | Sf. Gheorghe Háromszék Dance Studio |
| 21 September (Thursday) 19:00 | Home in the Homeland | Baraolt Municipal Culture Centre |
Programmes for August
We will start our 2023/2024 season with a new folklore performance called Home in the Homeland on the 20th of August in Nyíregyháza. We will present the production directed by Módosné Almási Berta Csilla and Módos Máté for the first time in Hungary.
As part of the Nyíregyháza FolkFélHét folklore festival, we will stage the dances and authentic costumes of the different regions of historical Hungary. The audience will be able to see Somogy dances, pair jumping, glass dance, Rimóc dances, Viski dance and waltz, Bukovina two-way tap dance and silladri, Nagypalád and verbunk from Szeghalom. The production "Home in the Homeland" will be performed on the Rózsakert Outdoor Stage from 20:00. We are also very honoured to be able to present a choreography at the official city celebration on 20 August: at 18:30 the audience of Nyíregyháza can meet us on the Kossuth Square stage.
On 24 August we will be invited to the Botorka Folk Dance Festival, which will be hosted by the village of Csíkszentdomokos.
Programme:
| 20 August (Sunday) 20:00 | Home in the Homeland | Nyíregyháza Nyíregyházi FolkFélHét Rózsakert outdoor stage |
| 24 August (Thursday) 20:00 | Home in the Homeland | Csíkszentdomokos Botorka Folk Dance Festival outdoor stage |
A Kulturális és Innovációs Minisztérium és a Csoóri Sándor Alap átfogó működési támogatásának köszönhetően színvonalas, előadásokban gazdag művészeti programot valósíthattunk meg a 2022/2023-as évadban.
A pályázati támogatás turnék, vendégjátékok lebonyolítását tette lehetővé, új előadások létrejöttéhez, táncházak, rendezvények megvalósulásához járult hozzá, a társulat technikai működését, kommunikációját segítette.
A turnék, vendégjátékok alkalmával a támogatásból szállásköltségeket, közreműködői, előadói tiszteletdíjakat finanszíroztunk.
A támogatás nagymértékben hozzájárult az évad során bemutatott Tragédia, Élni fogunk szabadon és Hazától hazáig c. előadások létrejöttéhez is, az alkotók, előadók tiszteletdíjának és az előadás díszlet, valamint jelmez költségeinek finanszírozása által.
A Lajtha László Alapítvány és a Háromszék Táncegyüttes havi rendszerességgel megszervezett táncházai főként a Csoóri Sándor Alap támogatásával valósulnak meg. A támogatás keretében 2 táncházat szerveztünk, melyek során a házigazdák és a táncházban muzsikáló zenekar tagjainak tiszteletdíját fizettük.
2022. november 11-12 között sikeresen megrendeztük a Lajtha László Alapítvány és a Háromszék Táncegyüttes szervezésében éves rendszerességgel megvalósuló sepsiszentgyörgyi Népzene és- néptánctalálkozót, mely az erdélyi népi kultúra egyik végvárának szerepét tölti be. A rendezvény immár 32. alkalommal került megszervezésre. A találkozó kiemelt programja volt a Székelyföldi Legényesverseny 8. kiadása. A támogatásból a vetélkedő zsűri elnökének tiszteletdíját biztosítottuk.
A támogatásból továbbá a társulat színpadtechnikai működését segíthettük hangmesteri szolgáltatás finanszírozása által: az évad során megvalósított élő zenés előadások és zenekaros próbák minőségi hangosítását sikerült biztosítanunk.
A támogatásból intézményünk kommunikációját is fejlesztettük. A fiatalabb generáció megszólítását tartva szem előtt, az aktuális kommunikációs trendekhez igazodó előzetes videót készítettünk az Élni fogunk szabadon c. produkcióról. A támogatásból továbbá nyomtatott és online eszközöket is finanszíroztunk: előadásaink hirdetésére plakátokat, műsorfüzeteket készítettünk, vendégjátékaink népszerűsítésére Facebook hirdetéseket vettünk igénybe.
A támogatás a pályázat gördülékeny lebonyolítását is segítette. A pályázatot lebonyolító Lajtha László Alapítvány irodavezetőjének munkabérét biztosítottuk általa.
Köszönjük a Kulturális és Innovációs Minisztériumnak és a Csoóri Sándor Alapnak, hogy ilyen átfogó módon segítette a Háromszék Táncegyüttes értékőrző és színvonalas előadó-művészeti munkásságát.
On 23-30 July 2023 the Meeting and Gala of Gypsy Music and Dance in Transylvania will take place at "Csipkés" Zăbala Leisure Centre.
The "Háromszék" Dance Ensemble and the Pro Cultura Foundation will await visitors with a variety of programmes and workshops at this week-long meeting, which aims to promote Gypsy culture. During the week, participants will be invited to a joint gala, which will be presented on 30 July. Contributors: Szászcsávás Orchestra, Katlan Orchestra, Őrkő Traditionalists, Orza Călin , Demeter Erika , Tőkés Edit and Tőkés Csaba Zsolt.
Registration for the meeting: online, by filling in the form at the link
We look forward to seeing you!
