Reconsidering knowledge production and inclusion/exclusion in dance communities. Proceedings of the 32nd Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology (29 July–5 August 2022, Brežice, Slovenia).
Edited by:
Rebeka Kunej, Ann R. David
Year:
2024
This volume contains the final selection of papers presented at the 32nd Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, the leading conference series in the field of ethnochoreology, dance anthropology and related disciplines, held in Brežice, Slovenia, from 25 July to 5 August 2022. The papers presented at the Symposium and included in the Proceedings address two key themes: reconsidering knowledge production in dance research; and inclusion/exclusion in dance communities. Additionally, a separate section is dedicated to posters presented at the Symposium, while an appendix offers insights into the event's embodied experience, even though the event was experienced by some only online. This volume comprises 49 contributions from 53 authors and is issued by the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance (ICTMD) and the Institute of Ethnomusicology Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU).
Table of content
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION by Placida Staro
EDITORIAL COMMENTS by Ann R. David and Rebeka Kunej
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
THEME 1: Reconsidering knowledge production in dance research
Stefanie ALISCH
Introducing Angolan kuduro dance and the interactive dance interview method
Joško ĆALETA, Iva NIEMČIĆ
Cultural promotion and symbolic (re)presentation of communities' music and dance traditions: Lastovo carnival case study
Fahriye DINÇER
Working through challenges in ethnographic research processes: a personal reflection on oral interviews
László FELFÖLDI
The Institute for musicology in Budapest as a Research Centre for Traditional Dances
Konstantina GIATRA, Myrto KARFI (Student paper)
Reconsidering knowledge production in dance research through the symposia of the ICTM study group on ethnochoreology (1988–2018)
Dorota GREMLICOVÁ (Panel 3)
Formulating dance history: Alfred Waldau's geschichte des böhmischen nationaltanzes (1861)
Lucie HAYASHI (Panel 3)
Dance research in the Czech Republic
William KEARNEY
Towards a multimedia choreomusicology: exploring the potential of digital animation as a tool in sound-movement research dissemination
Laura KOLAČKOVSKÁ (Student paper)
Folk dance in the city: the Folklove community
Radboud KOOP
The international folk dance repertoire: labeled commodities and the myth of village sources
Henrik KOVÁCS
A teaching method for the revival of traditional dance
Daniela MACHOVÁ (Panel 3)
Researching dance in the Czech Republic
Mehmet Öcal ÖZBILGIN
Restructuring folk dance education to reflect the political views of the 21st century
Else SCHMIDT
Standardization tendencies in Austrian dance communities
Elina SEYE
Local dance knowledge on video
Tomaž SIMETINGER
Dance folklorism in the light of cultural politics in Slovenia
Lika TSNOBILADZE (Student paper)
Reconsidering and studying the dance during the self-confrontation interview with a dancer in question
Tvrtko ZEBEC
Dance research within digital humanities
THEME 2: Inclusion/exclusion in dance communities
Theresa Jill BUCKLAND (Panel 4)
Strategies of inclusion: crossing boundaries, building bridges? Fresh strategies and echoes from Austria and England
Chariton CHARITONIDIS (Panel 5)
"Dance is... for everyone". A reflective approach on the "openness"of an outdoor social dance project in the contemporary urban context of Greece
Ann R. DAVID
Dance, inclusivity, health: bodies and well-being centre stage
Konstantinos DIMOPOULOS (Panel 5)
From inclusion to exclusion: Reshaping the gender participation in the dance Karagouna in Megala Kalyvia, Trikala, Greece
Kristina DOLININA
Tendencies for inclusion and exclusion in the contemporary Kathak dance teaching scene
Eleni FILIPPIDOU
Dance and social integration: Greek Gagauz strategies of acculturation through the example of the dance Syrtos kalamatianos
Georgios K. FOUNTZOULAS (Panel 5)
From exclusion to inclusion: The case of Syrtos dance in Kythnos [Thermia], Cyclades, Greece
Georgiana GORE (Panel 4)
Kinaesthetically based bonding between krumpers and 'contemporary' dancers in the project Raw. Expression brute de la rage
Corina IOSIF (Panel 4)
The ideology of authenticity and the media manipulation
Daniela IVANOVA-NYBERG
Dance, Covid-19, and the notion of flow: interpreting dance experience(s) under pandemic restrictions
Maria Ι. KOUTSOUBA (Panel 4)
Greek traditional dance 'in fashion': in the Greek dance scene
Mojca KOVAČIČ
Representations of ethnic minority folk dance ensembles: official discourses, identity constructions, individual needs and everyday realities among Bosniak youth in Slovenia
Csilla KÖNCZEI (Panel 4)
RromaNative&Co. A collaborative intercultural movement-theatre project of Tranzit Foundation in Cluj, Romania
Rebeka KUNEJ
A folk dance ensemble between a cultural society and a dance community
Dilyana KURDOVA
Sakrovishtnitsata – a virtual dance community
Stephanie SK MARBACH
Competing in the living room: examining the surge of digital competitions in Irish step dancing during the pandemic in 2020
Carmel McKENNA
"Reels on Wheels": practitioner reflections on a pilot adapted Irish céilí dance programme for wheelchair users
Jeanette MOLLENHAUER (Panel 6)
The white pages
Katarina NIKOLIĆ (Student paper)
Serbian and Romanian Balls: the paradox of ethnically determined dance events as a medium of social inclusion in South-eastern Hungary
Juliette Angela O’BRIEN
The dancing meme and cultural inclusivity
Judith E. OLSON (Panel 7)
Covid-19 on the dance floor: how Hungarian dance groups in Eastern North America are coping with Covid-19
Shanny RANN (Student paper)
Like dance but not dance: situating Taiji within the discourse of dance studies in the case of Sanxing Taiji
Stephanie SMITH (Panel 6)
Confronting the past: organizational responses to the language and complex legacy of Cecil Sharp in Anglo-American dance
Anna SZÉKELY (Panel 7)
Hungarian revival folk dancers during the coronavirus epidemic
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Fatema ALBASTAKI
Hip hop and martial arts - crossover in marginal spaces
Nena COUCH
The Dance Notation Bureau Collection and related dance holdings at The Ohio State University
Lia Fernandes MEIRELLES
From the inside to the outside: the transmission of contemporary dance in the context of Yuval Pick's dance company
Sydney HUTCHINSON
"All the young people are dancing": socialism vs. social dance in East Germany
Emma PETROSYAN
The art of acrobats and ropewalkers in Armenian tradition
Magdalena Maria WOLF
'Authentic' attraction: Styrian folk dance as a commodity between tourism, expectation, and stylization
