Folk Dance House Day 2024

Traditionally, the Folk Dance House Day is celebrated nationwide in Hungary on the anniversary of the first urban folk dance house. The concert at the Liszt Academy is part of a national event series, which has been organized jointly since 2022 by the Hungarian Heritage House, the Folk Music Department, and the Liszt Academy Concert Centre. The event explores the relationship between generations of the folk dance house movement – from a musical perspective. The fourth generation of folk dancers has grown up in the course of the more than five decades since the revival of the Hungarian folk dance house movement. Each generation sets new goals that are rooted in the work of their predecessors, while wishing to change it at the same time. A common point, however, is that each generation draws from the values of traditional peasant culture. Today, institutions such as the Hungarian Heritage House and the Folk Music Department of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music support this process, bringing generations closer to the sources of inspiration as much as possible.