{"id":7151,"date":"2022-08-30T00:30:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T21:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hte.ro\/?page_id=7151"},"modified":"2024-10-01T08:59:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T05:59:11","slug":"rolunk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hte.ro\/en\/rolunk\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The H\u00e1romsz\u00e9k Dance Theatre was founded in 1990 in Sf\u00e2ntu Gheorghe. Until 1999 it was a professional folk dance ensemble operating from the state budget, then for ten years (1999-2008) it belonged to the city mayor's office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between 1990 and 2000 the institution operated under the name of the State Folk Ensemble H\u00e1romsz\u00e9k, and between 2000 and 2024 under the name of H\u00e1romsz\u00e9k Dance Ensemble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sf\u00e2ntu Gheorghe is the centre of the former H\u00e1romsz\u00e9k County - now Covasna County - with a population of 70,000, three quarters Hungarian nationality. The town is a major cultural centre of Szeklerland with professional Hungarian and Romanian theatres (Tam\u00e1si \u00c1ron Theatre, Andrei Muresanu Theatre), significant artistic, literary and musical life, a multilingual written press and several local radio stations. The city is particularly proud of the dozen of buildings designed by K\u00e1roly K\u00f3s, including the Szekler National Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mission of our ensemble is to collect, preserve and transmit the folk music and folk dance culture of the Transylvanian ethnic groups. As a performing arts institution, we aim to pass on this tradition by creating a new, individual world of forms and to place it in a new context through the language of theatre. Over the years, we have developed a unique profile in the combination of traditional folklore shows and contemporary dance theatre forms, in which folk music and folk dance are transformed into a language that is able to speak to the today's audiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By exploring and reflecting on the dramatic potential of certain folk customs, rituals or even regionally relevant historical events, we have created productions such as \"V\u00e9rn\u00e1sz\", \"V\u00e1r\u00f3terem\", \"\u00c1bel\", \"Cs\u00e1v\u00e1si ballada\", \"B\u00f6jtt\u0151l b\u00f6jttig\", \"A banda\", \"Sz\u00e1z \u00e9vig\", \"A t\u00e9kozl\u00f3 fi\u00fa\", \"G\u00e1bor \u00c1ron\", \"Erd\u00e9ly-menyegz\u0151\", \"Mundruc\", \"Pure\", \"Change\" or \"Tragedy\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our company has performed thousands of times, and in addition to our performances in Sf\u00e2ntu Gheorghe, we regularly tour the big cities of Transylvania and other places where Hungarians live. We have been guest performers in Hungary on several occasions, we are regular guests of the House of Traditions in Budapest, but in recent years we have also performed at such prominent venues as the National Theatre, the Palace of Arts and the National Dance Theatre. Over the years, our company has travelled to Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Poland, Finland, Greece, as well as to the distant Novosibirsk and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The M Studio company was founded in 2005 as a movement theatre workshop of H\u00e1romsz\u00e9k Dance Ensemble, today it is a separate company, and since 2010 it has been part of the Tam\u00e1si \u00c1ron Theatre. More information about them can be found on their website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our successes so far include our annual major event, the Folk Dance and Music Festival in Sf\u00e2ntu Gheorghe, which provides a platform for collecting and keeping alive traditional folklore. The event has been organised since 1991 in partnership with the L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Lajtha Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the 2001\/2002 season, together with the L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Lajtha Foundation and the \u00c1d\u00e1m K\u00f3nya Cultural Centre, we relaunched the Folk Dance House in Sf\u00e2ntu Gheorghe. In our folk dance houses, our orchestra - the Heveder band - and the Folker band play music, and on the occasion of festive dance houses, other invited traditional and folk dance house bands provide a good atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From July 2024, we will continue our activities as H\u00e1romsz\u00e9k Dance Theatre. The name is a faithful reflection of our company's profile, as in addition to folklore shows, our repertoire includes more and more dance theatre performances every season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 2024, the activities of H\u00e1romsz\u00e9k Dance Theatre have been extended to include the education of young people, as the company has taken over the Sz\u00e1zl\u00e1b\u00fa Children's Folk Dance Ensemble. Founded by Endre Vir\u00e1g and Imola Vir\u00e1g in 2006, the Sz\u00e1zl\u00e1b\u00fa Folk Dance Ensemble has become a veritable youth movement in Sf\u00e2ntu Gheorghe. The leaders of the ensemble engage 140 children in three age groups every week, using folk dance to strengthen the experience of belonging to a community and offering young people a valuable form of entertainment. All the while, they educate a culture-consuming and understanding audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director: Vir\u00e1g Endre<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The H\u00e1romsz\u00e9k Dance Theatre is officially sustained by Covasna County Council.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A H\u00e1romsz\u00e9k T\u00e1ncsz\u00ednh\u00e1z 1990-ben alakult Sepsiszentgy\u00f6rgy\u00f6n. 1999-ig \u00e1llami k\u00f6lts\u00e9gvet\u00e9sb\u0151l m\u0171k\u00f6d\u0151 hivat\u00e1sos n\u00e9pt\u00e1ncegy\u00fcttes volt, majd t\u00edz \u00e9vig (1999-2008 k\u00f6z\u00f6tt) a v\u00e1ros<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7151","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hte.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hte.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hte.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hte.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hte.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7151"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/hte.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9455,"href":"https:\/\/hte.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7151\/revisions\/9455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hte.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}