Repertoire
Sleeping nails
This performance is dedicated to the memory of our friend, composer Ferenc Kiss
(1954–2024).
The unfaithful wife
Love, passion, disloyalty - the Hungarian National Dance Ensemble brings to life the most mysterious and deepest human emotions in its criminal dance drama....
Barbarians
Dance poems based on the writings of Zsigmond Móricz
World of the Outlaws
Outlaws are distinctive figures of Hungarian folk tradition, often preserved in popular memory as idealised heroes. Thus were born the “Hungarian Robin...
Bonchida three times - Living Dance Archive
Hungarians, Romanians and Roma: three communities who lived side by side in remarkable harmony in the small Transylvanian village of Bonchida. They knew and...
Csárdás! - Tango from the South
The nearly two-hour world-class performance was reported as a resounding success by The New Times, The Boston Globe, and the Chicago Sun-Times. One of the...
Sleeping beauty
The classic tale of Sleeping Beauty comes to life in this enchanting production by the Hungarian National Dance Ensemble. One of its unique features is...
Dracula
What do we sacrifice on the altar of youth? The Hungarian National Dance Ensemble's dance-play for adults reflects on the great question of our time, which,...
Heart of Europe
The Heart of Europe brings to the stage a carefully curated repertoire of some of the most beautiful dances from across the Hungarian-speaking regions, with...
Petőfi!
No poet has ever had such a strong impact on our folk culture as Sándor Petőfi. Listening to our old-style folk songs, we often don't even recognize that...
Ghimes - Living Dance Archive
From the mid-seventies, Zoltán Zsuráfszky often visited Gyimes, which was considered a real white spot from the point of view of ethnographic and dance...
Dawn of Heroes
A Dance Chronicle of the Deeds of György Dózsa / Requiem for Mohács
Kalotaszeg - Living Dance Archive
Following the collection journey of the tireless ethnographer Martin György, the Hungarian National Dance Ensemble invites its viewers to the lively...
Hungarian heroes, battles and loves
The Hungarian National Dance Company's two-act piece guides its viewers through the pages of Hungarian history like a wonderful picture book, during which...
Mathias, the king of the world
Mátyás Hunyadi is one of the most significant figures in Hungarian history, and his reign is surrounded by many stories, legends and anecdotes. The youth...
Mezőség - Living Dance Archive
Mezőség's rolling hills are called by some the "Dead Sea" of Transylvania, and its culture is truly as ancient as the remaining mud of an ancient sea. The...
The Princesses Who Wore Out Their Shoes
The Princesses Who Wore Out Their Shoes continues the series of family dance productions created by Zsuzsa Zs. Vincze and Zoltán Zsuráfszky. Their 2003...
Old dance, new generation
Folk dance inseparably intertwines generations, it knows no boundaries either geographically or temporally. The transmission of knowledge once ensured its...
Requiem for Mohács
Requiem for Mohács is the new large-scale dance production of the Hungarian National Dance Ensemble, Hungary’s largest professional folk dance company....
Dragon's tale
The Hungarian National Dance Ensemble invites children to a new adventure: once again it guides its audience into the wonderful world of Hungarian folk...
Szatmár - Living Dance Archive
Can we list 290 villages in our country, in the Carpathian Basin? György Martin and his team collected the dances of exactly this number of settlements in...
Dancing Spring - Folklore Calendar I.
The Hungarian National Dance Ensemble has released its new series with the title of Folklore Calendar. I was the unconcealed intention of this series to...
I dream of dancing
Zsuzsa Zs. Vincze Kossuth award-winning choreographer's creative evening
A Dance Chronicle of the Deeds of György Dózsa
The dance theatre production Dance Chronicle of the Deeds of György Dózsa evokes the ominous years leading up to the Battle of Mohács. Featuring...
Winter Dance - Folklore Calendar II.
The Hungarian National Dance Ensemble will continue its folklore calendar series with the title Winter Dance. In the first part of the series, in the...
Recruitment
More than twenty years ago, Tamás Cseh created an unforgettable memory for our great-grandfathers, the Hungarian soldiers who gave their young lives and...
Castles, Warriors, Frontiers
The music of this dance drama, whose inspiration came from István Fekete’s novel, The Testament of the Aga of Koppány, was composed by Benjamin...
Storm corner - Live dance archive
The production titled Viharsarok was supported by the Folk Music and Folk Dance Archive of the MTA-HUN-REN BTK Institute of Musicology with the transfer of...