The role of informants and archive films in the Hungarian folk dance revival movement

Janku, Anna (author)

The Hungarian táncház [dance house] movement revolutionised the revival of traditional folk dances in urban contexts. This study examines the role of adatközlők [informants], master–disciple relationships, and archival film recordings as reference sources in the transmission and reconstruction of traditional dances within the Hungarian folk dance revival.  

• Language: English
• Keywords: táncház, informants, archive films, revival, transmission
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 30.06.2025
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 61-77
• Numbering: Vol. 61, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-180447
• ISSN: 0580-373X
• eISSN: 2350-4242
• DOI: 10.4312/mz.61.1.61-77
• Publication date in RUL: 09.03.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Muzikološki zbornik
• Shortened title: Muzik. zb.
• Publisher: Oddelek za muzikologijo Filozofske fakultete, Department of Musicology, University of Ljubljana, Oddelek za muzikologijo Filozofske fakultete, Department of Musicology, University of Ljubljana, Pedagoško-znanstvena enota za muzikologijo Filozofske fakultete, Department of Musicology, University of Ljubljana, Filozofska fakulteta, Oddelek za muzikologijo, Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 0580-373X
• COBISS.SI-ID: 16404226

Licences

• License: CC BY-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Description: This Creative Commons license is very similar to the regular Attribution license, but requires the release of all derivative works under this same license.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Vloga informatorjev in arhivskih filmov v preporodnem gibanju madžarskega ljudskega plesa

Abstract

Madžarsko gibanje táncház [plesna hiša] je prineslo pomemben preobrat v prizadevanja za oživljanje tradicionalnih ljudskih plesov v urbanem okolju. Pričujoča študija preučuje vlogo adatközlők [informatorjev], odnosov med mojstrom in učenci ter arhivskih filmskih posnetkov kot referenčnih virov pri prenosu in rekonstrukciji tradicionalnih plesov v okviru preporoda madžarskega ljudskega plesa.

• Keywords: táncház [plesna hiša], informatorji, arhivski filmi, preporod, prenos

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: N6-0231
• Name: V novi preobleki: spremembe v ljudskoglasbeni in plesni kulturi na Madžarskem, v Sloveniji in drugod