Folk Dance House Day - Folk Dance House 50

Dance House Day is traditionally organized on the anniversary of the first ‘urban’ dance house in Hungary. The event has reached an important milestone since it is 50 years to the day that the experimental dance house in Budapest was arranged, an event that launched a movement. The methodology that became known all over the world as the dance house movement was entered into the register of UNESCO’s best practices in preservation in 2011 as a unique Hungarian model passing on the intellectual cultural heritage. The gala concert is part of a national series of events, which this year is being organized jointly by the Folk Music Department and Liszt Academy Concert Centre. The Béla Halmos Trophy and the Béla Halmos Memorial Medal are presented at a ceremony. The Trophy, which is actually the violin once owned by Béla Halmos, is presented to an under-40-year-old musician actively playing traditional folk instrumental music in dance houses, who in the course of his/her cross-border work maintains contact with Hungarian communities living beyond the country’s border. The Memorial Medal recognizes outstanding professional and community ‘background work’ within the framework of the Dance House Movement.