Anna Székely earned her Bachelor degree at the University of Szeged at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology with a concentration of a Hungarian village’s local dance traditions, dancing customs regarding to the years of 1940s and '50s. During her studies she participated in the Erasmus Intensive Program: Movement of Past and Present in Trondheim, Norway. She finished the Choreomundus international master in dance knowledge, practice and heritage in 2015. Her thesis was about Transylvanian international folk dance and music camps and its participants. After that she accomplished her second master degree at the University of Szeged in 2017. The degree thesis was about a Hungarian male dance competition, the jury’s evaluation and the issue of authenticity. Her interest is on the Hungarian traditional folk dance and the current revival movement in the Hungarian communities. She is the secretary of the Hungarian Association for Ethnochoreology, and she is a member of the Hungarian Cultural Anthropological Association. Currently, she is a PhD student at the University of Szeged.
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