We would like to direct you to an intriguing website created by János Fügedi and his colleagues at the Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The website, Knowledge Base of Traditional Dances, features databases of traditional Hungarian dances from their Dance Archive, with hundreds of dances documented in its collections.

An introduction to the databases says, “The Knowledge Base of Traditional Dances publishes research data, documents, and sources kept in the Traditional Dance Archives of the Research Centre for the Humanities Institute for Musicology by means of cross-referenced internet database. The number of modules and their set of data are continuously increasing.”

We feel this site is an invaluable resource for dancers, stagers, notators, and educators. It is comprehensive, beautifully organized, and offers an exemplary model for documenting dance electronically through notation and film.