Space? Poland, Podhale, Zakopane, and the Regional Education Centre there. The time? Barely ten years of activity. Established in 2017, MAŁY HOP CUP does not have much to boast about in terms of achievements yet. It’s not much but it’s admirable all the same. They are the winner of the first prize in the GLORIA Nativity Play Competition, and twice came second at the ZŁOTE KIERPCE Tatra Festival of Highlander Ensembles. This year’s edition of the FESTIVAL OF THE CHILDREN OF MOUNTAINS will be the first international event they attend.
Space? The MAŁY HOP CUP children will take the Nowy Sącz audience to the place “In front of a cottage in Pardałówka.” Time? On a beautiful May day in times gone by - when sheep would be sheared with hand-sharpened shears - an uncle who happened to be passing by stopped to play the bagpipes for the children. Back then, simple games used to be part of everyday life: arm-wrestling, tug-of-war, the mill wheel, ‘Geese, geese, come home’, blind man’s buff; and so it was incredibly easy to weasel out of helping with wool carding.
In the Pardałówka space, in front of a cottage, of significance will be one more factor concerned with time – the one most important during the FESTIVAL OF THE CHILDREN OF MOUNTAINS: the age of the young artists. The programme prepared by the Zakopane ensemble takes into consideration both the games mentioned above and the themes of the songs. The children will be singing about herding lambs in the farmyard, the duties of a junior shepherd, small household chores, and children’s dreams.
At last, time will also flow to the rhythm of simple dance steps. The older children will be dancing in pairs (the so-called “solo dances”), whilst the younger girls will be dancing in a circle (ozwodno, po dwa, zwyrtane).
In the Pardałówka space, in front of a cottage, of significance will be one more factor concerned with time – the one most important during the FESTIVAL OF THE CHILDREN OF MOUNTAINS: the age of the young artists. The programme prepared by the Zakopane ensemble takes into consideration both the games mentioned above and the themes of the songs. The children will be singing about herding lambs in the farmyard, the duties of a junior shepherd, small household chores, and children’s dreams.
At last, time will also flow to the rhythm of simple dance steps. The older children will be dancing in pairs (the so-called “solo dances”), whilst the younger girls will be dancing in a circle (ozwodno, po dwa, zwyrtane).