In recent weeks, the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble has shared a remarkable and unique point of view over their social media accounts. The structure of the videos show archive footage and newly recorded routines under lockdown next to each other, on a shared screen. They wrote: “We would like to show our favourite recordings: how we reached certain moves under a certain influence.” We asked Gábor Mihályi, Ensemble Director of the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble, about dance, traditions, and the survival of past and present times.
