Articles by Initial Letters

Folk dance researcher Martin György’s last Transylvanian field work. In the fall of 1983 Martin gathered a group of dance researchers from Hungary and Transylvania to document and film the folk dance and music of the Transylvanian village of Györgyfalva/Gheorghieni, Romania. The expedition was organized mainly by Martin (1932–1983) and Györgyfalva resident and traditional dancer, Jaskó István ’Pitti bácsi’ (1929–2013). Traditional musicians played music and some forty people from the village danced the local dances. Filming and documentation went from 11am until 5pm – they danced in Pitti bácsi’s courtyard. Afterwards, the documentation was taken to the folk dance archives of the Institute of Musicology in Budapest. 1983 was during the strict Ceaușescu regime when everything Hungarian was forbidden and conditions were difficult. Afterwards, Pitti bácsi was harassed by the secret police. Within a few weeks Martin died – in November 1983 at the age of 51. This writing includes accounts from Simoncsics János, Lőrincz Beáta, and Jaskó István.