March 15 Celebrations

🇭🇺 Tegnap, március 19-én az Öböl-környéki magyarság összegyűlt nemzeti ünnepünk alkalmával, hogy megemlékezzünk múltbéli hőseinkről. Az Eszterlánc is ott volt, szatmári táncokat mutattunk be!
🇺🇸 Yesterday, on March 19th the Bay Area Hungarian community gathered to celebrate our National Day, remembering our heroes from the 1848 revolution. Eszterlánc danced Szatmári verbunk, slow and fast csárdás.

Cultural Gala in Sacramento – Part 2

On February 4th, 2023 Eszterlánc performed at the Sacramento Cultural Gala organized by the Hungarian Association of the Sacramento Area. Aside of dances performed by Eszterlánc, poems were recited by Pataki Ildikó Mónika, Beáta Váncza and László Velinszky. Crossroads Band San Francisco performed Hungarian pop-rock classics.

This is the second part of the show. If you like what you see, and want to give it a try, we are having our weekly practices at CYDance Works in San Mateo from 7:30PM on Fridays.

See you there!

Eszterlánc Insights

Whether you want to join us, or you are just curious what happens at a practice, here it is how our Friday evening looked like:
– Meet at CY DanceWorks in San Mateo at 7:30PM
– Warmup
– Technical training (small simplified moves from different dances)
– Continue working on the Vajdaszentiványi material (Transylvania)
– Just started working on the Rábaközi (Hungary)
– Repeated the song “Akkor szép az erdő, mikor zöld” from Vajdaszentivány
– Learned a new song from Rábaköz, “Ha fel megyek a sopronyi hegyre
– Stretching
– Social event

If you want to join us, or you are just curious about our work, our mission, come and talk to us! We can meet:
– At the Woodside Priory during the Scout Events on every second Sunday where some of us teach, some of us are present as parents
– Come to our practices on Friday nights
– See us during the March 15 commemoration. This year at Woodside Priory on the 19th of March at 2PM

Cultural Gala in Sacramento – Part 1

On February 4th, 2023 Eszterlánc performed at the Sacramento Cultural Gala organized by the Hungarian Association of the Sacramento Area. Aside of dances performed by Eszterlánc, poems were recited by Pataki Ildikó Mónika, Beáta Váncza and László Velinszky. Crossroads Band San Francisco performed Hungarian pop-rock classics.

Here we are publishing the first part of this show. Timestamps to the individual performances in the YouTube description: