The town of Szék, barely 40 kilometers from Kolozsvár, is an emblematic place for visitors of dance house, as due to its isolation, the attire, the dance houses held in the parlors and the world of spinners interwoven with fables remained part of everyday life, even in the sixties and seventies.
This is where dancers from Budapest first experience the wonder of young people performing freely improvised dances to live music, in 1971. It was due to the effect of this experience, that they organized the first – then still exclusive – dance house in the Liszt Ferenc Square book club, on 6 May, 1972. "Dance house – just like Szék" was the advertisement on the invitation to the event. The unique music- and dance culture, the distinctive black-and-red attire and lavishly decorated handicraft culture of the town, once rich thanks to salt mines and fish ponds, again and again captivates much more than just the enthusiasts of ethnography. For our Szék Day, we provide a sample of this world to those interested, and through our invited guests and conjured moments, they can imagine what it was like to live and revel as a member of a town, that once had three streets and a rigid social order.