Bartok Dance Ensemble on tv

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In the next days, Channel 1 of Hungarian Television broadcasts a film about 50 Years Anniversary of Bartok Dance Ensemble. A documentary and the gala performance in 2008 November at Palace of Arts Budapest will be shown in 3 parts:

Documentary:
Apr. 26. Sunday 15:00

Gala - part 1:
ápr. 28. kedd, 23:35

Gala - part 2:
Apr. 29. Wednesday 00:10 (in the tv program of Wed night)

UPDATE:

After broadcasting, the films are available online from the video archives of Hungarian Television
Documentary:


Gala - part 1:


Gala part 2:

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Andrea performs at her birthplace

Folk songs from Domahaza

Next weekend Andrea Gerak visits her birthplace Ozd in Hungary where she performs at a gala of the local folk dance association.

"I am very glad to take this invitation, because I have only been to Ozd a very few times: I was a little baby when we moved over to Kazincbarcika. When I was a teenager, I went to Ozd for swimming trainings when we didn't have a swimming pool yet in our city, two times to visit someone and last summer for a Takats Tamas Dirty Blues Band as part of the Borsod Arts Festival. I am especially happy about meeting the the traditional folk dance group of Domahaza, because their dances were amongst the first ones I learned when I was a young folk dancer." - Andrea

Place: Cultural Centre of Ozd "Olvaso" (Ozd, Gyar u. 4.)
Date & time: 25 April, Saturday 19:00
Music: Dobroda Band
Guest performers:
Traditional Folk Dance Group of Domahaza
Vadszilvak Folk Dance Group
Entry: 1000.-HUF

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With Bartok Ensemble at Táncház Festival

This weekend the XVIIIth Tanchaztalalkozo - National Tanchaz Festival & Fair in Hungary will take place in the frame of Budapest Spring Festival. Bartok Dance Ensemble was asked to open the Saturday Evening Gala at 8:00pm, with their wedding choreography. Along with other former dancers of the group, Andrea will perform as well, for the more people have fun, the better a wedding party is!

A few moments of the 50 years Anniversary Gala of the ensemble, from last November at Palace of Arts, Budapest (clik on photo for more pictures):



Place, time: Papp Laszlo Budapest Sports Arena, 2009 Apr 4, 20:00

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Csango Farsang (Carnival) in Eger

Andrea Gerak's next public performance



Time: 14th February 18:00
Place: Vörösrák Restaurant, Eger, Kossuth Lajos street 12.

Program:

At 18:00 mass for Csango Hungarians of Magyarfalu (Gaiceana-Arini (RO) at Ferencesek Church, Kossuth Lajos street 10, celebrated by Rev. Robert Pogar (born in Magyarfalu)

After that, dinner with entertainment. Performers:

Pal Dsupin furulya, Laszlo Cergo Herczeg koboz, Kinga Saarossy actress, Andrea Gerak singer, Laura Iancu poet, Ciprian Pogar singing (Magyarfalu), Ilona Budau singing (Magyarfalu), Students of Farkas Ferenc Music School, Jozsef Budau & his wife dance (Magyarfalu), Budau Antal & his wife dance (Magyarfalu), Antal Csicso tells stories about the Csangos (Klezse).

Táncház (=Hungarian folk dance house), teaching songs

Fee: 3000.-HUF

Tickets:
+36/36/312814 or personally at Vörösrak Restaurant

Media partners:
Csango Tükör, MyMusic, Hirek Oldal, Day.hu, Zenesz.info, Freeblog, Folkradio, Dalok.hu, TV Eger, Zajlik, Blogter, Egri Vegvar, Hirfal, Propeller, Myspace

Csángó Tükör interview

In the latest issue of CsángóTükör (Csango Mirror) you can read the first part of an interview with Andrea Gerak. The editors couldn't have timed it better than just before the Csango Ball in Budapest (the link is from 2005, but they have it in the same place this year as well) and the Csango Farsang (Carnival) in Eger. At the latter, Andrea will also perform as a guest.


"I set down for a tea with Lidia in the autumn at Gödör, and we had a great talk, first of all about my trip to Moldva last summer which has given me so many experiences that the majority of what I have seen and heard are still in my head and computer, waiting for being processed. I enjoyed this conversation a lot; it gave me an opportunity to think over and evaluate tings deeply, also for myself." - Andrea

The interview has been published uncut, without editing and this way the reader can enjoy a real, live conversation, on four pages. (In Hungarian.)

Photos: Dancing rehearsals with Bartok Dance Ensemble

After the very successful gala performance of Bartok Ensemble, here are the first pictures of the dancing rehearsals. Thanks to Istvan Szabo and Pal Sass for the photos.

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Soon pictures of the gala will be also uploaded and hopefully we also get a few videos. What is more, the Hungarian Television 1 will broadcast the show, most probably around Christmas.

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