{"id":1090405,"date":"2023-12-29T12:24:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T17:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/?p=1090405"},"modified":"2023-12-29T12:28:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T17:28:27","slug":"report-from-the-50th-anniversary-gala-of-the-cleveland-regos-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/report-from-the-50th-anniversary-gala-of-the-cleveland-regos-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Letting the world know that we not only keep but live our traditions \u2014 A Report from the 50th Anniversary Gala of the Cleveland Reg\u00f6s Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: hungarianconservative.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

It was earlier this year at Pontoz\u00f3, the largest Hungarian folk dance festival in North America (held in New Brunswick, NJ this year) that I had the chance to first see the Cleveland Reg\u00f6s Group perform. It was spring, yet their audience was enthusiastically invited to their Golden Wedding Gala organized for a November date. The Reg\u00f6s Group puts on a big performance every five years and this year marked their 50th anniversary of existence, and also aimed to showcase the cycle of human life beyond commemorating the past 50 years of the group. Although I finally did not make it to the gala, thanks to Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3\u2019s recording, I could watch and get a taste of the atmosphere of this extraordinary performance lasting for several hours and staging hundreds of performers for more than a thousand spectators\u2014a memory for the next five years, but more probably for a lifetime.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Cleveland Reg\u00f6s Group, founded in 1973 by Magdi Keresztes Temesv\u00e1ry and her husband Andr\u00e1s, has had more than 400 members in 50 years. It is made up of local scout leaders above 14 years of age who lead their 6\u201314 year old scouts every Friday, while on Tuesdays learn and practice Hungarian folk dances and folk traditions including an Easter fertility ritual, setting up a maypole in May, and singing carols at Christmas. They also carry out regular ethnographic research and collections, organize camps every summer and once in every five years complete a three-week long trip to Hungary and the Carpathian Basin.<\/p>\n

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The anniversary gala was attended not only by current and former (alumni) scouts, but also by many scout friends and supporters from all over the Hungarian American diaspora. As Eszti Pigniczky, scout leader and former Reg\u00f6s Group director, the current costume designer and mentor to the group,\u00a0explained to us earlier<\/a>, the Reg\u00f6s do much more than just folk dance: when they are not preparing for a show, they are engaged in crafts, folk tales, ballads, folk music, in other words they explore the entire Hungarian folk tradition. Further, they also do fieldwork collecting. According to her husband, Endre Szentkir\u00e1lyi, president of the United Hungarian Societies of Cleveland, the anniversary gala events are similar to school reunions on a larger scale. He had been a member of the Reg\u00f6s Group for ten years, from the age of 14, and has helped organize the gala performances and tours to Hungary ever since. He also edited and published two related books: in 2008, he compiled an ethnographic collection of young Reg\u00f6s people in Cleveland entitled\u00a0Are there still Hungarians in Cleveland?,<\/em>\u00a0and for this year\u2019s anniversary gala, he produced a compilation of 700 photographs providing a comprehensive picture of the Reg\u00f6s movement worldwide.<\/p>\n

Anik\u00f3 Bal\u00e1ssy B\u00e9res, one of the jurors of this year\u2019s Pontoz\u00f3 festival, arrived from Hungary five years ago and has been mentoring the Cleveland Reg\u00f6s leaders since then. Her work ranges from research and collection to teaching dances. She said that the anniversary gala was an attempt to show how the group has lived through the past 50 years by bringing on stage small children of three and four years old first, and later the oldest members of the original Reg\u00f6s Group. Among the latter is Annam\u00e1ria Gy\u00f6rky (also known as Nyuszi), who joined them 49 years ago, has been part of all the major performances and has helped the group ever since (for example by being wardrobe coordinator or sewing folk costumes). All her children are members or alumni of the Reg\u00f6s Group, and all of them performed at the Golden Wedding gala. She emphasized the joy of seeing familiar faces again, while Anik\u00f3 pointed out the cohesion, cooperation and familial spirit within the group. After the welcome speech the show started with an old Hungarian blessing. Across the show, between the dance segments displaying various themes, short movie inserts reminded us of the past of the Reg\u00f6s Group; of how young the current and alumni members were 10, 20 or 50 years ago, as a symbol of the eternal cycle of life. After the choreography from Kisterenye, which they had learned on this year\u2019s summer tour in Hungary, the youngest scouts performed a so-called \u2018cricket wedding\u2019, and then the scouts and the Reg\u00f6s Group joined up for a choreography from the R\u00e1bak\u00f6z region. Anik\u00f3 found it very touching to see the different generations dancing together and shared that while she had been heavily involved in the folk dance movement back in Hungary, she never imagined experiencing such a spectacular and high quality performance in America.<\/p>\n

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Chilla Varga, the leader of the New Brunswick Reg\u00f6s dance group of about thirty people, explained that they contributed in the first part of the show with dances from the G\u00f6m\u00f6r region. It was their first appearance as guests for an anniversary gala of the Cleveland Reg\u00f6s Group, which they would like to make a tradition of, since their Reg\u00f6s Group is very similar to the Cleveland group and their goal is the same: to preserve Hungarian folk traditions and pass them on to younger generations. Ambassador Szabolcs Tak\u00e1cs explained enthusiastically that during the performance he felt like he was at home in Hungary, and he believes that this is the most that can be achieved in the diaspora. He paid the highest tribute to the performers, instructors and parents, appreciating their efforts in preserving Hungarian identity, and quoted Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semj\u00e9n\u2019s anecdote that Hungarians as a nation are similar to a three-legged stool; where Hungary, the Carpathian Basin and the diaspora are the three legs, and if any one of them falls, the stool will topple. He added that this is not the case in Cleveland since it still feels as the most Hungarian city in America, something of which not only the locals, but all Hungarians can be proud of, wherever they live in the world.<\/p>\n

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J\u00e1nos Szab\u00f3, the other mentor of the Reg\u00f6s Group, who previously led the N\u00f3gr\u00e1d Dance Company for 18 years in Hungary and is currently a KCSP (K\u0151r\u00f6si Csoma Scholarship Program) fellow in Cleveland shared his joy and heartfelt gratitude for being part of the creation of this miracle, which he did not escape without tears. He admitted that as a mentor and instructor, it is difficult for him to look at the performance from the outside, but he has had to learn this over time and can say that, for example, the lighting technique was elevated by two leagues in comparison with previous anniversary shows. He explained that the theme of the second segment was family life including dances from the Mez\u0151s\u00e9g, Palatka, Szeklerland and Jobb\u00e1gytelke regions performed by families. He said that the preparation process for him only started at the beginning of October and he felt that although he is not so young, he was energized by being heavily involved in the organization and all the background work over the last few weeks. Scout Leader Ir\u00e9n Dala congratulated and thanked everybody for the experience on behalf of the Hungarian Scout Association in Exteris (KMCSSZ). She emphasized the spectacle of the scouts performing with their grandchildren and the fact that the Cleveland scouts are one of the largest troops in the association, where the most serious scouting work is underway.<\/p>\n

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L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Tihanyi and Hanna Szentkir\u00e1lyi, the current leaders of the Reg\u00f6s Group said that they had some doubts after the last rehearsal, but the performance went very well and they are proud of everyone. They have been rehearsing at least twice a week since mid-August, but they have actually been preparing for this show for two years, since September 2021. They also pointed out that the alumni group had to learn new dances. Eszti Pigniczky also confessed: she had concerns until the beginning of the show, but in the end she was very satisfied and happy because the event was a huge success for both groups, the locals and the guests from New Brunswick, too. In addition to their first successfully achieved goal (more than a thousand in the audience), their other goal was also achieved: they wanted to show Clevelanders and the world what the 50 years of the Reg\u00f6s Group\u2019s past and present, and thus future, is all about. We want to let the world know that we are not only keeping but living our traditions, she explained, adding: in addition to the tremendous professional support they received in planning and putting together the event (Andrea T\u00e1bor Fricke was also involved in the design and sewing of the costumes; Ilona Solomon Gulden, Emese Kov\u00e1cs Chmielewski and Bea T\u00e1bor in the administration, financial administration and research), they also received invaluable technical assistance (R\u00e9ka Pigniczky assembled the movie displays, Zsuzsa Dar\u00f3czy the visuals, while Gyuri Kov\u00e1cs, S\u00e1ra P\u00e9ter, Keyshaun Smith and Carlton Guc took care of the various technical components).<\/p>\n

Although the video recordings prove the huge amount of work they put in, the joy of dancing and being together, the nostalgic time travels and the reunions and the gratitude of the audience, I am sure that watching it in person must have been an even more exhilarating experience. I hope I can be there in five years\u2019 time. Until then, God bless the Cleveland Reg\u00f6s Group! We wish them many more equally memorable anniversary performances.<\/p>\n

Ildik\u00f3 Antal-Ferencz<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source: hungarianconservative.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: hungarianconservative.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

It was earlier this year at Pontoz\u00f3, the largest Hungarian folk dance festival in North America (held in New Brunswick, NJ this year) that I had the chance to first see the Cleveland Reg\u00f6s Group perform. It was spring, yet their audience was enthusiastically invited to their Golden Wedding Gala organized for a November date. The Reg\u00f6s Group puts on a big performance every five years and this year marked their 50th anniversary of existence, and also aimed to showcase the cycle of human life beyond commemorating the past 50 years of the group. Although I finally did not make it to the gala, thanks to Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3\u2019s recording, I could watch and get a taste of the atmosphere of this extraordinary performance lasting for several hours and staging hundreds of performers for more than a thousand spectators\u2014a memory for the next five years, but more probably for a lifetime.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Cleveland Reg\u00f6s Group, founded in 1973 by Magdi Keresztes Temesv\u00e1ry and her husband Andr\u00e1s, has had more than 400 members in 50 years. It is made up of local scout leaders above 14 years of age who lead their 6\u201314 year old scouts every Friday, while on Tuesdays learn and practice Hungarian folk dances and folk traditions including an Easter fertility ritual, setting up a maypole in May, and singing carols at Christmas. They also carry out regular ethnographic research and collections, organize camps every summer and once in every five years complete a three-week long trip to Hungary and the Carpathian Basin.<\/p>\n

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The anniversary gala was attended not only by current and former (alumni) scouts, but also by many scout friends and supporters from all over the Hungarian American diaspora. As Eszti Pigniczky, scout leader and former Reg\u00f6s Group director, the current costume designer and mentor to the group,\u00a0explained to us earlier<\/a>, the Reg\u00f6s do much more than just folk dance: when they are not preparing for a show, they are engaged in crafts, folk tales, ballads, folk music, in other words they explore the entire Hungarian folk tradition. Further, they also do fieldwork collecting. According to her husband, Endre Szentkir\u00e1lyi, president of the United Hungarian Societies of Cleveland, the anniversary gala events are similar to school reunions on a larger scale. He had been a member of the Reg\u00f6s Group for ten years, from the age of 14, and has helped organize the gala performances and tours to Hungary ever since. He also edited and published two related books: in 2008, he compiled an ethnographic collection of young Reg\u00f6s people in Cleveland entitled\u00a0Are there still Hungarians in Cleveland?,<\/em>\u00a0and for this year\u2019s anniversary gala, he produced a compilation of 700 photographs providing a comprehensive picture of the Reg\u00f6s movement worldwide.<\/p>\n

Anik\u00f3 Bal\u00e1ssy B\u00e9res, one of the jurors of this year\u2019s Pontoz\u00f3 festival, arrived from Hungary five years ago and has been mentoring the Cleveland Reg\u00f6s leaders since then. Her work ranges from research and collection to teaching dances. She said that the anniversary gala was an attempt to show how the group has lived through the past 50 years by bringing on stage small children of three and four years old first, and later the oldest members of the original Reg\u00f6s Group. Among the latter is Annam\u00e1ria Gy\u00f6rky (also known as Nyuszi), who joined them 49 years ago, has been part of all the major performances and has helped the group ever since (for example by being wardrobe coordinator or sewing folk costumes). All her children are members or alumni of the Reg\u00f6s Group, and all of them performed at the Golden Wedding gala. She emphasized the joy of seeing familiar faces again, while Anik\u00f3 pointed out the cohesion, cooperation and familial spirit within the group. After the welcome speech the show started with an old Hungarian blessing. Across the show, between the dance segments displaying various themes, short movie inserts reminded us of the past of the Reg\u00f6s Group; of how young the current and alumni members were 10, 20 or 50 years ago, as a symbol of the eternal cycle of life. After the choreography from Kisterenye, which they had learned on this year\u2019s summer tour in Hungary, the youngest scouts performed a so-called \u2018cricket wedding\u2019, and then the scouts and the Reg\u00f6s Group joined up for a choreography from the R\u00e1bak\u00f6z region. Anik\u00f3 found it very touching to see the different generations dancing together and shared that while she had been heavily involved in the folk dance movement back in Hungary, she never imagined experiencing such a spectacular and high quality performance in America.<\/p>\n

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Chilla Varga, the leader of the New Brunswick Reg\u00f6s dance group of about thirty people, explained that they contributed in the first part of the show with dances from the G\u00f6m\u00f6r region. It was their first appearance as guests for an anniversary gala of the Cleveland Reg\u00f6s Group, which they would like to make a tradition of, since their Reg\u00f6s Group is very similar to the Cleveland group and their goal is the same: to preserve Hungarian folk traditions and pass them on to younger generations. Ambassador Szabolcs Tak\u00e1cs explained enthusiastically that during the performance he felt like he was at home in Hungary, and he believes that this is the most that can be achieved in the diaspora. He paid the highest tribute to the performers, instructors and parents, appreciating their efforts in preserving Hungarian identity, and quoted Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semj\u00e9n\u2019s anecdote that Hungarians as a nation are similar to a three-legged stool; where Hungary, the Carpathian Basin and the diaspora are the three legs, and if any one of them falls, the stool will topple. He added that this is not the case in Cleveland since it still feels as the most Hungarian city in America, something of which not only the locals, but all Hungarians can be proud of, wherever they live in the world.<\/p>\n

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J\u00e1nos Szab\u00f3, the other mentor of the Reg\u00f6s Group, who previously led the N\u00f3gr\u00e1d Dance Company for 18 years in Hungary and is currently a KCSP (K\u0151r\u00f6si Csoma Scholarship Program) fellow in Cleveland shared his joy and heartfelt gratitude for being part of the creation of this miracle, which he did not escape without tears. He admitted that as a mentor and instructor, it is difficult for him to look at the performance from the outside, but he has had to learn this over time and can say that, for example, the lighting technique was elevated by two leagues in comparison with previous anniversary shows. He explained that the theme of the second segment was family life including dances from the Mez\u0151s\u00e9g, Palatka, Szeklerland and Jobb\u00e1gytelke regions performed by families. He said that the preparation process for him only started at the beginning of October and he felt that although he is not so young, he was energized by being heavily involved in the organization and all the background work over the last few weeks. Scout Leader Ir\u00e9n Dala congratulated and thanked everybody for the experience on behalf of the Hungarian Scout Association in Exteris (KMCSSZ). She emphasized the spectacle of the scouts performing with their grandchildren and the fact that the Cleveland scouts are one of the largest troops in the association, where the most serious scouting work is underway.<\/p>\n

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L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Tihanyi and Hanna Szentkir\u00e1lyi, the current leaders of the Reg\u00f6s Group said that they had some doubts after the last rehearsal, but the performance went very well and they are proud of everyone. They have been rehearsing at least twice a week since mid-August, but they have actually been preparing for this show for two years, since September 2021. They also pointed out that the alumni group had to learn new dances. Eszti Pigniczky also confessed: she had concerns until the beginning of the show, but in the end she was very satisfied and happy because the event was a huge success for both groups, the locals and the guests from New Brunswick, too. In addition to their first successfully achieved goal (more than a thousand in the audience), their other goal was also achieved: they wanted to show Clevelanders and the world what the 50 years of the Reg\u00f6s Group\u2019s past and present, and thus future, is all about. We want to let the world know that we are not only keeping but living our traditions, she explained, adding: in addition to the tremendous professional support they received in planning and putting together the event (Andrea T\u00e1bor Fricke was also involved in the design and sewing of the costumes; Ilona Solomon Gulden, Emese Kov\u00e1cs Chmielewski and Bea T\u00e1bor in the administration, financial administration and research), they also received invaluable technical assistance (R\u00e9ka Pigniczky assembled the movie displays, Zsuzsa Dar\u00f3czy the visuals, while Gyuri Kov\u00e1cs, S\u00e1ra P\u00e9ter, Keyshaun Smith and Carlton Guc took care of the various technical components).<\/p>\n

Although the video recordings prove the huge amount of work they put in, the joy of dancing and being together, the nostalgic time travels and the reunions and the gratitude of the audience, I am sure that watching it in person must have been an even more exhilarating experience. I hope I can be there in five years\u2019 time. Until then, God bless the Cleveland Reg\u00f6s Group! We wish them many more equally memorable anniversary performances.<\/p>\n

Ildik\u00f3 Antal-Ferencz<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source: hungarianconservative.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":1089376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1090405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-events-and-news","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"\nLetting the world know that we not only keep but live our traditions \u2014 A Report from the 50th Anniversary Gala of the Cleveland Reg\u00f6s Group – Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/report-from-the-50th-anniversary-gala-of-the-cleveland-regos-group\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Letting the world know that we not only keep but live our traditions \u2014 A Report from the 50th Anniversary Gala of the Cleveland Reg\u00f6s Group – Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Source: hungarianconservative.com It was earlier this year at Pontoz\u00f3, the largest Hungarian folk dance festival in North America (held in New Brunswick, NJ this year) that I had the chance to first see the Cleveland Reg\u00f6s Group perform. It was spring, yet their audience was enthusiastically invited to their Golden Wedding Gala organized for a November date. The Reg\u00f6s Group puts on a big performance every five years and this year marked their 50th anniversary of existence, and also aimed to showcase the cycle of human life beyond commemorating the past 50 years of the group. Although I finally did not make it to the gala, thanks to Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3\u2019s recording, I could watch and get a taste of the atmosphere of this extraordinary performance lasting for several hours and staging hundreds of performers for more than a thousand spectators\u2014a memory for the next five years, but more probably for a lifetime. The Cleveland Reg\u00f6s Group, founded in 1973 by Magdi Keresztes Temesv\u00e1ry and her husband Andr\u00e1s, has had more than 400 members in 50 years. It is made up of local scout leaders above 14 years of age who lead their 6\u201314 year old scouts every Friday, while on Tuesdays learn and practice Hungarian folk dances and folk traditions including an Easter fertility ritual, setting up a maypole in May, and singing carols at Christmas. They also carry out regular ethnographic research and collections, organize camps every summer and once in every five years complete a three-week long trip to Hungary and the Carpathian Basin. The anniversary gala was attended not only by current and former (alumni) scouts, but also by many scout friends and supporters from all over the Hungarian American diaspora. As Eszti Pigniczky, scout leader and former Reg\u00f6s Group director, the current costume designer and mentor to the group,\u00a0explained to us earlier, the Reg\u00f6s do much more than just folk dance: when they are not preparing for a show, they are engaged in crafts, folk tales, ballads, folk music, in other words they explore the entire Hungarian folk tradition. Further, they also do fieldwork collecting. According to her husband, Endre Szentkir\u00e1lyi, president of the United Hungarian Societies of Cleveland, the anniversary gala events are similar to school reunions on a larger scale. He had been a member of the Reg\u00f6s Group for ten years, from the age of 14, and has helped organize the gala performances and tours to Hungary ever since. He also edited and published two related books: in 2008, he compiled an ethnographic collection of young Reg\u00f6s people in Cleveland entitled\u00a0Are there still Hungarians in Cleveland?,\u00a0and for this year\u2019s anniversary gala, he produced a compilation of 700 photographs providing a comprehensive picture of the Reg\u00f6s movement worldwide. Anik\u00f3 Bal\u00e1ssy B\u00e9res, one of the jurors of this year\u2019s Pontoz\u00f3 festival, arrived from Hungary five years ago and has been mentoring the Cleveland Reg\u00f6s leaders since then. Her work ranges from research and collection to teaching dances. She said that the anniversary gala was an attempt to show how the group has lived through the past 50 years by bringing on stage small children of three and four years old first, and later the oldest members of the original Reg\u00f6s Group. Among the latter is Annam\u00e1ria Gy\u00f6rky (also known as Nyuszi), who joined them 49 years ago, has been part of all the major performances and has helped the group ever since (for example by being wardrobe coordinator or sewing folk costumes). All her children are members or alumni of the Reg\u00f6s Group, and all of them performed at the Golden Wedding gala. She emphasized the joy of seeing familiar faces again, while Anik\u00f3 pointed out the cohesion, cooperation and familial spirit within the group. After the welcome speech the show started with an old Hungarian blessing. Across the show, between the dance segments displaying various themes, short movie inserts reminded us of the past of the Reg\u00f6s Group; of how young the current and alumni members were 10, 20 or 50 years ago, as a symbol of the eternal cycle of life. After the choreography from Kisterenye, which they had learned on this year\u2019s summer tour in Hungary, the youngest scouts performed a so-called \u2018cricket wedding\u2019, and then the scouts and the Reg\u00f6s Group joined up for a choreography from the R\u00e1bak\u00f6z region. Anik\u00f3 found it very touching to see the different generations dancing together and shared that while she had been heavily involved in the folk dance movement back in Hungary, she never imagined experiencing such a spectacular and high quality performance in America. Chilla Varga, the leader of the New Brunswick Reg\u00f6s dance group of about thirty people, explained that they contributed in the first part of the show with dances from the G\u00f6m\u00f6r region. It was their first appearance as guests for an anniversary gala of the Cleveland Reg\u00f6s Group, which they would like to make a tradition of, since their Reg\u00f6s Group is very similar to the Cleveland group and their goal is the same: to preserve Hungarian folk traditions and pass them on to younger generations. Ambassador Szabolcs Tak\u00e1cs explained enthusiastically that during the performance he felt like he was at home in Hungary, and he believes that this is the most that can be achieved in the diaspora. He paid the highest tribute to the performers, instructors and parents, appreciating their efforts in preserving Hungarian identity, and quoted Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semj\u00e9n\u2019s anecdote that Hungarians as a nation are similar to a three-legged stool; where Hungary, the Carpathian Basin and the diaspora are the three legs, and if any one of them falls, the stool will topple. He added that this is not the case in Cleveland since it still feels as the most Hungarian city in America, something of which not only the locals, but all Hungarians can be proud of, wherever they live in the world. J\u00e1nos Szab\u00f3, the other mentor of the Reg\u00f6s Group, who previously led the N\u00f3gr\u00e1d Dance Company for 18 years in Hungary and is currently a KCSP (K\u0151r\u00f6si Csoma Scholarship Program) fellow in Cleveland shared his joy and heartfelt gratitude for being part of the creation of this miracle, which he did not escape without tears. He admitted that as a mentor and instructor, it is difficult for him to look at the performance from the outside, but he has had to learn this over time and can say that, for example, the lighting technique was elevated by two leagues in comparison with previous anniversary shows. He explained that the theme of the second segment was family life including dances from the Mez\u0151s\u00e9g, Palatka, Szeklerland and Jobb\u00e1gytelke regions performed by families. He said that the preparation process for him only started at the beginning of October and he felt that although he is not so young, he was energized by being heavily involved in the organization and all the background work over the last few weeks. Scout Leader Ir\u00e9n Dala congratulated and thanked everybody for the experience on behalf of the Hungarian Scout Association in Exteris (KMCSSZ). She emphasized the spectacle of the scouts performing with their grandchildren and the fact that the Cleveland scouts are one of the largest troops in the association, where the most serious scouting work is underway. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Tihanyi and Hanna Szentkir\u00e1lyi, the current leaders of the Reg\u00f6s Group said that they had some doubts after the last rehearsal, but the performance went very well and they are proud of everyone. They have been rehearsing at least twice a week since mid-August, but they have actually been preparing for this show for two years, since September 2021. They also pointed out that the alumni group had to learn new dances. Eszti Pigniczky also confessed: she had concerns until the beginning of the show, but in the end she was very satisfied and happy because the event was a huge success for both groups, the locals and the guests from New Brunswick, too. In addition to their first successfully achieved goal (more than a thousand in the audience), their other goal was also achieved: they wanted to show Clevelanders and the world what the 50 years of the Reg\u00f6s Group\u2019s past and present, and thus future, is all about. We want to let the world know that we are not only keeping but living our traditions, she explained, adding: in addition to the tremendous professional support they received in planning and putting together the event (Andrea T\u00e1bor Fricke was also involved in the design and sewing of the costumes; Ilona Solomon Gulden, Emese Kov\u00e1cs Chmielewski and Bea T\u00e1bor in the administration, financial administration and research), they also received invaluable technical assistance (R\u00e9ka Pigniczky assembled the movie displays, Zsuzsa Dar\u00f3czy the visuals, while Gyuri Kov\u00e1cs, S\u00e1ra P\u00e9ter, Keyshaun Smith and Carlton Guc took care of the various technical components). Although the video recordings prove the huge amount of work they put in, the joy of dancing and being together, the nostalgic time travels and the reunions and the gratitude of the audience, I am sure that watching it in person must have been an even more exhilarating experience. I hope I can be there in five years\u2019 time. Until then, God bless the Cleveland Reg\u00f6s Group! We wish them many more equally memorable anniversary performances. 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It was spring, yet their audience was enthusiastically invited to their Golden Wedding Gala organized for a November date. The Reg\u00f6s Group puts on a big performance every five years and this year marked their 50th anniversary of existence, and also aimed to showcase the cycle of human life beyond commemorating the past 50 years of the group. Although I finally did not make it to the gala, thanks to Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3\u2019s recording, I could watch and get a taste of the atmosphere of this extraordinary performance lasting for several hours and staging hundreds of performers for more than a thousand spectators\u2014a memory for the next five years, but more probably for a lifetime. The Cleveland Reg\u00f6s Group, founded in 1973 by Magdi Keresztes Temesv\u00e1ry and her husband Andr\u00e1s, has had more than 400 members in 50 years. It is made up of local scout leaders above 14 years of age who lead their 6\u201314 year old scouts every Friday, while on Tuesdays learn and practice Hungarian folk dances and folk traditions including an Easter fertility ritual, setting up a maypole in May, and singing carols at Christmas. They also carry out regular ethnographic research and collections, organize camps every summer and once in every five years complete a three-week long trip to Hungary and the Carpathian Basin. The anniversary gala was attended not only by current and former (alumni) scouts, but also by many scout friends and supporters from all over the Hungarian American diaspora. As Eszti Pigniczky, scout leader and former Reg\u00f6s Group director, the current costume designer and mentor to the group,\u00a0explained to us earlier, the Reg\u00f6s do much more than just folk dance: when they are not preparing for a show, they are engaged in crafts, folk tales, ballads, folk music, in other words they explore the entire Hungarian folk tradition. Further, they also do fieldwork collecting. According to her husband, Endre Szentkir\u00e1lyi, president of the United Hungarian Societies of Cleveland, the anniversary gala events are similar to school reunions on a larger scale. He had been a member of the Reg\u00f6s Group for ten years, from the age of 14, and has helped organize the gala performances and tours to Hungary ever since. He also edited and published two related books: in 2008, he compiled an ethnographic collection of young Reg\u00f6s people in Cleveland entitled\u00a0Are there still Hungarians in Cleveland?,\u00a0and for this year\u2019s anniversary gala, he produced a compilation of 700 photographs providing a comprehensive picture of the Reg\u00f6s movement worldwide. Anik\u00f3 Bal\u00e1ssy B\u00e9res, one of the jurors of this year\u2019s Pontoz\u00f3 festival, arrived from Hungary five years ago and has been mentoring the Cleveland Reg\u00f6s leaders since then. Her work ranges from research and collection to teaching dances. She said that the anniversary gala was an attempt to show how the group has lived through the past 50 years by bringing on stage small children of three and four years old first, and later the oldest members of the original Reg\u00f6s Group. Among the latter is Annam\u00e1ria Gy\u00f6rky (also known as Nyuszi), who joined them 49 years ago, has been part of all the major performances and has helped the group ever since (for example by being wardrobe coordinator or sewing folk costumes). All her children are members or alumni of the Reg\u00f6s Group, and all of them performed at the Golden Wedding gala. She emphasized the joy of seeing familiar faces again, while Anik\u00f3 pointed out the cohesion, cooperation and familial spirit within the group. After the welcome speech the show started with an old Hungarian blessing. Across the show, between the dance segments displaying various themes, short movie inserts reminded us of the past of the Reg\u00f6s Group; of how young the current and alumni members were 10, 20 or 50 years ago, as a symbol of the eternal cycle of life. After the choreography from Kisterenye, which they had learned on this year\u2019s summer tour in Hungary, the youngest scouts performed a so-called \u2018cricket wedding\u2019, and then the scouts and the Reg\u00f6s Group joined up for a choreography from the R\u00e1bak\u00f6z region. Anik\u00f3 found it very touching to see the different generations dancing together and shared that while she had been heavily involved in the folk dance movement back in Hungary, she never imagined experiencing such a spectacular and high quality performance in America. Chilla Varga, the leader of the New Brunswick Reg\u00f6s dance group of about thirty people, explained that they contributed in the first part of the show with dances from the G\u00f6m\u00f6r region. It was their first appearance as guests for an anniversary gala of the Cleveland Reg\u00f6s Group, which they would like to make a tradition of, since their Reg\u00f6s Group is very similar to the Cleveland group and their goal is the same: to preserve Hungarian folk traditions and pass them on to younger generations. Ambassador Szabolcs Tak\u00e1cs explained enthusiastically that during the performance he felt like he was at home in Hungary, and he believes that this is the most that can be achieved in the diaspora. He paid the highest tribute to the performers, instructors and parents, appreciating their efforts in preserving Hungarian identity, and quoted Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semj\u00e9n\u2019s anecdote that Hungarians as a nation are similar to a three-legged stool; where Hungary, the Carpathian Basin and the diaspora are the three legs, and if any one of them falls, the stool will topple. He added that this is not the case in Cleveland since it still feels as the most Hungarian city in America, something of which not only the locals, but all Hungarians can be proud of, wherever they live in the world. J\u00e1nos Szab\u00f3, the other mentor of the Reg\u00f6s Group, who previously led the N\u00f3gr\u00e1d Dance Company for 18 years in Hungary and is currently a KCSP (K\u0151r\u00f6si Csoma Scholarship Program) fellow in Cleveland shared his joy and heartfelt gratitude for being part of the creation of this miracle, which he did not escape without tears. He admitted that as a mentor and instructor, it is difficult for him to look at the performance from the outside, but he has had to learn this over time and can say that, for example, the lighting technique was elevated by two leagues in comparison with previous anniversary shows. He explained that the theme of the second segment was family life including dances from the Mez\u0151s\u00e9g, Palatka, Szeklerland and Jobb\u00e1gytelke regions performed by families. He said that the preparation process for him only started at the beginning of October and he felt that although he is not so young, he was energized by being heavily involved in the organization and all the background work over the last few weeks. Scout Leader Ir\u00e9n Dala congratulated and thanked everybody for the experience on behalf of the Hungarian Scout Association in Exteris (KMCSSZ). She emphasized the spectacle of the scouts performing with their grandchildren and the fact that the Cleveland scouts are one of the largest troops in the association, where the most serious scouting work is underway. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Tihanyi and Hanna Szentkir\u00e1lyi, the current leaders of the Reg\u00f6s Group said that they had some doubts after the last rehearsal, but the performance went very well and they are proud of everyone. They have been rehearsing at least twice a week since mid-August, but they have actually been preparing for this show for two years, since September 2021. They also pointed out that the alumni group had to learn new dances. Eszti Pigniczky also confessed: she had concerns until the beginning of the show, but in the end she was very satisfied and happy because the event was a huge success for both groups, the locals and the guests from New Brunswick, too. In addition to their first successfully achieved goal (more than a thousand in the audience), their other goal was also achieved: they wanted to show Clevelanders and the world what the 50 years of the Reg\u00f6s Group\u2019s past and present, and thus future, is all about. We want to let the world know that we are not only keeping but living our traditions, she explained, adding: in addition to the tremendous professional support they received in planning and putting together the event (Andrea T\u00e1bor Fricke was also involved in the design and sewing of the costumes; Ilona Solomon Gulden, Emese Kov\u00e1cs Chmielewski and Bea T\u00e1bor in the administration, financial administration and research), they also received invaluable technical assistance (R\u00e9ka Pigniczky assembled the movie displays, Zsuzsa Dar\u00f3czy the visuals, while Gyuri Kov\u00e1cs, S\u00e1ra P\u00e9ter, Keyshaun Smith and Carlton Guc took care of the various technical components). Although the video recordings prove the huge amount of work they put in, the joy of dancing and being together, the nostalgic time travels and the reunions and the gratitude of the audience, I am sure that watching it in person must have been an even more exhilarating experience. I hope I can be there in five years\u2019 time. Until then, God bless the Cleveland Reg\u00f6s Group! We wish them many more equally memorable anniversary performances. 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