Valcer i salonsko kolo od 19. stoljeća do danas
The Waltz and the Salonsko Kolo from the 19th Century to the Present Day

Summary/Abstract: The path taken by the waltz in its spread throughout Europe also leads us to Zagreb, and we can then monitor it through all of Croatia. Since not much was written about the dance itself at that time, I have found information in various social chronicles and newspaper reports on urban dance socials that were organised then. Following the trail of the arrival of the waltz in Croatian dance halls, it was unavoidable to compare it with the Croatian social pair dance, the salonsko kolo, or salon circle-dance, which was conceived as a patriotic response to the charms of the waltz. For that reason, I deal in the text with the arrival, spread, co-existence at dance socials and the survival of the waltz and the salonsko kolo. At the beginning of the 1830s, Zagreb was the centre of the National Revival, the Illyrian Movement, oriented against Hungarian nationalism. The social life of Zagreb was very rich at that time. The major and most popular social events were public dances with entertainment. Dancing and parties took place largely in the winter months and during Carnival tide, and these dance socials were held in several halls in the city centre of Zagreb. All these parties and dance events were reported on by then-current newspapers such as Danica Ilirska, which provided me with the information that I present in the text about which dances were performed and how folk and urban pair dances intertwined at the time of the Illyrian Revival. Danica came out continuously for fifteen years, from 1835 to 1849.[...]

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