Trăind într-un oraş bogat în monumente ridicate în perioada secolelor XIII-IX, dorinţa ansamblului de dans Passeggio este aceea de a reînvia atmosfera specifică acestor secole prin intermediul unor activităţi diverse deschise publicului.
Şi pentru că în spatele numeroaselor lupte politice punctate de datele istorice se ascunde o lume fascinantă, o lume mai puţin cunoscută, ne concentrăm pe redescoperirea dansului, a gastronomiei, a vestimentaţiei, a conduitei sociale, a metodelor de petrecere a timpului liber din spaţiul european (în special din Italia, Franţa, Anglia, Spania, dar şi din Transilvania).
Prin tot ceea ce facem încearcăm să fim cât mai autentici – muzica, paşii de dans şi coregrafiile, costumele cusute de noi – toate sunt atent documentate.
În plus, unii membri au avut ocazia de a participa la cursuri de măiestrie cu coregraful Gábor Kovács (Budapesta), cu coregrafa François Denieau şi Bérengère Bodénan (cu ocazia stagiunilor Academiei din Sablé la Bucureşti şi Cluj-Napoca) sau, în cadrul unor proiecte, cu dansatoarea și coregrafa Mary Collins de la Royal College of Music din Londra.
We are a group of dancers from Cluj-Napoca, Romania. We are not professional dancers and we do not claim this to be our aim or duty. And, perhaps if we were professional, we probably wouldn’t dance with so much pleasure. But it doesn’t mean that we are not perfectionists. Dancing is our leasure and we dance pretty much often. We love to meet and to turn the moments of rehearsal in performances.
We dance in the same manner as it was used to in earlier times. Not folk dances, but a little bit older ones. We are decoding dance steps and choreographies from hundreds of years ago. When we get tired of dancing we skim art albums and then we tailor and sew costumes.
Our aim is not to go back in those times, but to bring back fragments and colours from the 13th—19th centuries.
MEMBRI
Juhász Csilla
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." [Pablo Picasso]
Eke Zsuzsanna
"Vivir con miedo es como vivir a medias." (A life lived in fear is a life half lived.) [Spanish proverb]
György Melinda
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." [Eden Ahbez]
Ana-Maria Juhász
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." [George Bernard Shaw]
László Edit
"Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare,/Since, seldom coming, in the long year set,/Like stones of worth they thinly placed are,/Or captain jewels in the carcanet." [Shakespeare, Sonet LII.]
Burligică Noémi
"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still likes you." [Elbert Hubbard]
Linda Zsazsa Szabo
"To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it." [Osho]
SZÁSZ HUBA
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]