KYRIE ELEISON – SPIRITUALITY FROM URBAN VERBUNK

KYRIE ELEISON – SPIRITUALITY FROM URBAN VERBUNK
“WE DANCE WITH DANCE TO THE WORLD-KNOWN CHRISTIAN CHURCH”

Junior Príma and Harangozó Gyula Award-winning dancer Ahmed Moussa and Judit Tóth founded Urban Verbunk and made a soul-strengthening clip for Easter. One of the most famous Christian church hymns, Kyrie eleison (Sir, have mercy!) – Young Artists dance to a modernized version of Soul Power in a whole new and exciting dance style.

On the occasion of Easter, Urban Verbunk will release a video with wonderful and highly symbolic content. The new production of a boldly innovative dance yet preserving our traditions, as the title of the song shows, encourages us to develop the soul power from ourselves. The video was recorded weeks ago, when it could already be seen that in addition to the holiday, there would be other serious topicality of the production for Kyrie eleison (Sir, have mercy!).

– We trained the most talented young dancers from the South, Great Plain, Northern Hungary and Western Transdanubia for this world number; Urban Verbunk is the center responsible for innovation in national folk art. Our motto: “Let folk dance be a national sport!” ‘The poor man cooks with water’, so we pray for a world-famous Christian church song. Not only the situation caused by the virus, but also on the occasion of the celebration of rebirth, which was given by the Kossuth Prize-winning singer András Berecz in a reworking by Miklós Szitha – Ahmed Moussa, the artistic director of Urban Verbunk, summed up her thoughts.

In the video, the incomplete attire of the dancers, the aesthetics of the body symbolize purification, and the tricolor masks symbolize the faith of our compatriots…, but we can also hear many other soul-strengthening messages from the frames.

The motto of the band: make folk dance a national sport!

The couple of Ahmed Moussa and Judit Tóth, the artistic director of Urban Verbunk, created a new Hungarian dance style. Traditional movements are made even more attractive and spectacular with extreme elements such as the unique hand-dancing seen in the new clip, but the choreography also includes other revolutionary innovations.

The article of the “Magyar Nemzet” can be read HERE in its original place.