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Sustaining Traditional Dance as Intangible Cultural Heritage

Edited by: Rebeka Kunej, Theresa Jill Buckland
Year: 2025


This monograph presents new research on sustaining traditional dance as intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in Europe. Developed primarily within the EU Creative Europe project Dance as ICH: New Models of Facilitating Participatory Dance Events, the contributions examine key examples from Belgium, Greece, Hungary, Norway, Romania and Slovenia. The authors explore diverse strategies, dynamics, and responses that emerge when local dance communities, heritage-focused institutions, and the general public seek to assure the vitality of traditional dance practices as intangible cultural heritage. In doing so, they raise essential questions about value, responsibility, and best practices in safeguarding, transmitting, and engaging with dance as heritage in contemporary contexts.



Table of content

Introduction
Rebeka Kunej and Theresa Jill Buckland

1. Safeguarding Dance Heritage: Interventionism versus Facilitation?
Egil Bakka and Georgiana Gore

2. Legislation, Education and Ethnography: Dance Academics as Catalysts of Sustainable Heritage Practices in Greece
Zoi N. Margari and Maria I. Koutsouba

3. Dancing a Heritage in Horjul: Contemporary Social Dance Practices and Heritage Discourse
Rebeka Kunej

4. Safeguarding the Local Heritage: Wedding Rituals of Sárköz, Hungary
Dóra Pál-Kovács

5. The Hungarian Phenomenon of Táncház: A Historical Overview
Anna Janku

6. The Role of Music and Musicians in the Revitalisation of Dance Heritage
Drago Kunej

7. Ideologies in Disseminating Traditional Dancing: Renewed M odels and Reflections on S afeguarding Dance as ICH from Norway
Siri Mæland

8. Transmitting Social Dance Practices in Flanders as Living Heritage
Debora Plouy and Mieke Witkamp

9. Curating Events of Practice Exhibition: Four Approaches to Exhibiting Participatory Dance in Museum Contexts
Tone Erlien Myrvold

10. The Role of the Ethnographic Museum in Safeguarding the Traditional Romanian Dance
Silvestru Petac

11. Music and Dance at the Intersection of the UNESCO Paradigm and Museology
Anja Jerin and Adela Pukl

12. Facilitating Dance Activities in an Ethnographic Museum: A Case Study from ASTRA Museum, Romania
Raluca Ioana Andrei and Simona Maria Malearov

List of Contributors

Index



Keywords
collective volume
cultural heritage
dance
ethnology
folk dances




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