Review of the emotional and identity-forming basis of lived experiences in the vicinity of Szeged — thoughts on an ongoing research

Abstract

An attempt was made to clarify the aspects of connections between folk dance, identity and emotions. It was hoped that this would help to bring us closer to an understanding of the ways in which folk dancers in an urban environment try to make use of aesthetic values of the peasant culture revealed by ethnographic studies. In the life of the communities analysed emotion is a very important identity-forming motivational factor. When choosing a group, and also when we try to maintain our membership of that group, the efforts located in the segment of hypothetical oppositions, individual thinking, creating a new level of socialisation and thinking about movements, the existence of the societies created and bound together through group thinking all have a key role in an urban environment as well.