RETRO: Dance offers elegance and fun. Remember with us
Elegance, nobility and fun, so they are dance. They have been held in the Czech lands for almost 200 years. People went to dances during the First Republic, under socialism and they still go now. It is a traditional “bridge” between childhood and adulthood, which the main participant will not forget for the rest of his life. How do you remember dancing? Was the movement on the floor your own? Have you mastered the basics of etiquette? Share your experience with other readers, such as how to do it, for example, Mr. Oldřich Suchohradský.
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Dance in the village of Vrdy near Kutná Hora. The Holans led dance from 1968 to 1993.
| Photo: Archive of the village Vrdy
I spent my dance in the Adalbertina Hall in Hradec Králové, with my high school classmates, sometime in the early 1960s. The experience of them is not unforgettable. I had it just a short distance from home, and I remember how, in the hallway of our house, after returning from each lesson, my classmate František and I repeated the steps of the dances we had learned that evening. Our classmate always slept with us after dancing. He was from a village somewhere near Pardubice, so he would have to come home with him. There was no transport for him to move home. Our classmates went to the dances a year earlier than we boys. They were our counselors and they came to treat us for Prodloužená and Věneček. They praised our progress and encouraged us to be good dancers, which flattered us.
After 40 years, I returned to the same hall at the Wreath of my niece Olinka. I was glad it was still the same there. Holiday feelings, strong excitement at the memory of what I once experienced here. I was only here as a photographer and an escort of my sister’s family, but I was still a little younger. I breathed again the wonderful atmosphere of excitement and youth that I have not forgotten over the years and I will certainly not forget for the rest of my life.
Oldrich Suchoradsky
Have you remembered your dance classes now? How many years have passed and are you still dancing? Do you have a photo at home? Do not hesitate and send us pictures via the Reader reporter form on the Diary website, you can also add a few sentences. We will prepare an extensive photo gallery from the received photos. Thank you and we look forward to it!