{"id":153,"date":"2017-02-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmosz-nahc.ca\/en\/?p=153"},"modified":"2017-02-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T05:00:00","slug":"bokreta-winter-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kmosz-nahc.ca\/en\/bokreta-winter-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Bokr\u00e9ta Winter Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Between the 17-19th<\/sup> of February, the focus of North America\u2019s Hungarian folkdance world was relocated to \u00cele-Perrot, not far from Montr\u00e9al. Over 100 dancers gathered here from all over North America to dance together, learn the dances of Sz\u00e1szcs\u00e1v\u00e1s and last but not least, to carouse.<\/p>\n

\"Bork\u00e9ta<\/p>\n

The Bokr\u00e9ta Ensemble celebrates this year its 50th anniversary. The members of the ensemble – besides Hungarian dancers – are mostly French Quebecers, so the fact that they sing perfectly in Hungarian is even more creditable. The group works on such a high level that by regular practices, performances, visits to Hungary and Transylvania they can participate in regional festivals overseas and learn new techniques locally, also.<\/p>\n

The workshops were lead by two teachers from Hungary: Hortenzia L\u0151rincz and Istv\u00e1n Hahn-Kakas, besides them a populous group of artists has arrived from Sz\u00e1szcs\u00e1v\u00e1s: three members of the Gipsy band from the village of Cs\u00e1v\u00e1s that was joined by Levente Fazakas, and Montr\u00e9al folk musicians Levente Garda, Attila Krasznai and Sergiu Popa.<\/p>\n

Most of participants arrived in the afternoon of 17th<\/sup>, and occupied their accomodation. The t\u00e1nch\u00e1z<\/em> (dance house) of the evening lasted until dawn.<\/p>\n

The next day, daytime workshops were held, where participants could learn the Hungarian dances of Sz\u00e1szcs\u00e1v\u00e1s. But the peak of the weekend was just about to come now, namely the Cs\u00e1v\u00e1s Ball. As a warm-up, the t\u00e1nch\u00e1z for children has opened its doors at 7 PM, then the guests of the Ball arrived as well.<\/p>\n

Cs\u00e1v\u00e1s Ball was opened by the concert of the virtuousely playing musicians. They performed a spellbinding set of Hungarian, Rumanian and Gipsy songs to show the unbelievable cultural variegation of K\u00fck\u00fcll\u0151mente region of Transylvania.<\/p>\n

The music performance was followed by the breathtaking show of Bokr\u00e9ta Ensemble, they presented a flamboyant choreography from Kalocsa. The audience\u2019s reply was an uneasing applause, and shortly almost everybody has hit the dancefloor in the t\u00e1nch\u00e1z. It started with the common teaching of the basics of Hungarian dances from Sz\u00e1szcs\u00e1v\u00e1s, then we danced \u2019lead dances\u2019 to which ones even absolute beginners could join. Being Carnaval (farsang<\/em>) time, venturesome dancers were wearing different costumes, that the jury considered at the fancy dress competition. Teaching was followed by free dance and revelry until early morning.<\/p>\n

The Cs\u00e1v\u00e1s Ball was run with an absolute full house, almost 200 guests, in an amazing atmosphere. Hungary\u2019s ambassador to Canada, Dr. B\u00e1lint \u00d3dor and Dorottya De\u00e1k-Stifner cultural attach\u00e9 marked the event by honouring us with their presence.<\/p>\n

Last day of the camp was fulfilled with workshops, and at the evening a closing t\u00e1nch\u00e1z awaited the unwearying participants. During these 3 enriching days we all have learned a lot, and the teachers from Hungary stayed after for a whole week to teach a brand new choreography to the legendary Bokr\u00e9ta Ensemble.<\/p>\n

Photos about the event are posted here<\/a>.
Dorka Korn\u00e9lia Tak\u00e1csy<\/a>, KCSP, Montr\u00e9al<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Between the 17-19th of February, the focus of North America\u2019s Hungarian folkdance world was relocated to \u00cele-Perrot, not far from Montr\u00e9al. Over 100 dancers gathered here from all over North America to dance together, learn the dances of Sz\u00e1szcs\u00e1v\u00e1s and last but not least, to carouse. The Bokr\u00e9ta Ensemble celebrates this year its 50th anniversary. … Continue reading “Bokr\u00e9ta Winter Workshop”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmosz-nahc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmosz-nahc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmosz-nahc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmosz-nahc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmosz-nahc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kmosz-nahc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmosz-nahc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmosz-nahc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmosz-nahc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}