Bezanka Folkdance Group
Holy Trinity Parish was indeed blessed to have this very talented folklore dance group from Brataslavia, Slovakia.
Their music and dancing brought back memories for many older parishioners.  And for the young it gave
example of the of how our ancestors from Eastern Europe possibly were like 100 years ago.

The BEZANKA folklore ensemble has been following its mission of developing and disseminating Slovak folk art in music, dance and song since 1974, first under the management of Jozef Buric, and since 1996 under Viliam Korencik.  During the almost 25 years of its activities, the ensemble has tried to reflect the beauty and diversity of the rich folklore of the many regions of Slovakia in its dance and music.

 Vitality, enthusiasm, a love of folk art, an ambition to achieve something, a desire for friendship, an opportunity to see and learn about locales near and far - all these link them.  On the one hand, dancers with skilled limbs, singers with melodious voices, musicians with quick fingers, all of them unripe but eager; and on the other hand, ripe but no less eager educators and managers with many years of experience and unceasing enthusiasm.

What could in this present-day, hurried, over-civilized world connect nations more beautifully and be even more required than the search for and the dissemination of that which is for the culture of a nation the most precious and unique, i.e., its folk art.

Following exact research and theoretical preparation, choreography and scoring of material, the large ensemble faces a great amount of training and rehearsals.  The reward for this demanding preparation is for these passionate amateurs not only the amount of zealous spectators, the number of visited locations and festivals, but also the feeling of pride that they have contributed to the preservation of a part of their past and that they have also helped Slovakia to improve its unique heritage and to pass it on to others.