Hungarian Clapping

After the ballet performance, a curious thing occurred. After a few seconds of random clapping, the entire audience started a steady, synchronised rhythm.

This went on and on as a series of more and more complex bows took place. There was no ovation, but a louder quicker clapping for very good performances and a slower, but still polite clapping for smaller parts.

After the ballet, we googled it and found some other guy's blog who was also a bit taken aback by it.  You see it was a little creepy - 1000 people clapping in time.  

So the next night, we were ready.  After Madam Butterfly, I taped about 2.5 minutes of the 4 minute appreciation. 

Thankfully, I collected in small increments.  I had to stop occasionally due to my giggling from Gill's continued attempts to convince everyone that random clapping was better.  She did this by intentionally clapping out of time, loud clapping, fast clapping, and a series of hoots, giggles and sighs. 

Alas, the other 998 guests refused to try it her way.

This is it; the final Hungarian Post.