Fonó Wednesday: dances from Magyarpéterlaka

The midweek dance house has moved on to Magyarpéterlaka, a Transylvanian village whose fiddlers played for two neighbouring regions and blended their tunes. Dance teaching comes first, split between newcomers and the more practised, and the dancing runs on from there.

About the event

Magyarpéterlaka, Petrilaca de Mureș in Romanian, sits between the Maros and the Nyárád northeast of Târgu Mureș, and is one of the most important musicians' villages of the Upper Maros. Because the Maros side danced two kinds of forgatós and the Nyárád side only one, the village's players mixed some of the sebes forduló and korcsos melodies instead of keeping them apart. Tempo and the viola accompaniment tell the two apart. Partners swap round all through the teaching, so come alone or in a pair. Szilárd Palagyi and Alíz Nemcsényi take the beginners, Kristóf Kele and Kamilla Nagy the advanced group, Krisztina Bauer the singing, and the Stenk Zenekar play. Ticketed, and cheaper in advance.

Dates and times

• Wednesday 11 November19:00 to midnight

Getting there