Are you a fan of traditional culture? Not yet? After your experience with Slovak traditional dances and music at this event, you will become one. Explore the magic of folk culture whilst attending the next session organized by the House of Traditional Dances in Bratislava during the Advent.
Every month there is a House of Traditional Dances organized by the Dragúni NGO – a dance party in the centre of Bratislava where you have a chance to learn how to dance to the classic folk music or music of various minority groups. The idea of these events is that there are no performers and spectators, there is just dancing and fun! So what is House of Traditional Dances all about?
Rich cultural resources, unique geographic location preserving various shades of temperament, natural communicativeness of music, dance and interactions with the public are the fundamental pillars on which the project The House of Traditional Dances was built. It has been organised in different towns and cities of Slovakia regularly since 2002. The art project applicable in any region of the world makes space for active entertainment – direct enjoyment and development of traditional music-dance art in its entire spectrum.
A flexible and well-working concept based on knowing the history and traditions, and respecting it, has the ambition to enable all participants to experience first-hand – and help create – a splendid atmosphere of live music, making it a good prospect for applying the project in local, national, international and inter-genre context.
This Dance House has two parts. In the first part, the instructors use video projection of authentic records, focusing on teaching one or two folk dances. In the second part, participants try what they have learned in the first part in a form of free entertainment.
Taking place at KC Dunaj in Bratislava city centre on December 6th, 2018, this Saint Nicholas edition of The House of Traditional Dances will be dedicated to minority groups dances from Spiš cultural region in the north-eastern part of Slovakia. You can look forward to public presentation of Mojše Band's musical project "Musica Iudaica Monarchiae I. - Zipserim", presenting Jewish songs from the band's brand new CD.
Come over to enjoy the evening under the leadership of the leading personalities of Slovak folk revival movement František Morong and Barbora Morongová. Pure joy of life expressed in dance will be this time presented through Goral dances poza noge and skokacka from village Lendak in northern Spiš region and also through Jewish dances from the same region. Music will be provided by gorgeous Magura Folk Band.
