Power of Representations: Stereotypification and Selectivity in Dance Performances

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Stavělová, Daniela
Power of Representations: Stereotypification and Selectivity in Dance Performances.
Dance, Age and Politics. Proceedings of the 30th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology.. Hungary: Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Szeged, Hungarian Association for Ethnochoreology. Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute for Musicology, 2021 - (Apjok, V.; Povedák, K.; Szőnyi, V.; Varga, S.), s. 315-324. Proceedings of the 30th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology 28th July – 3rd August 2018 Szent-Györgyi Albert Agóra Cultural Centre, Szeged. ISBN 978-615-5167-34-8.
[30th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology 28th July – 3rd August 2018 Szent-Györgyi Albert Agóra Cultural Centre, Szeged. Szeged (HU), 28.07.2021-03.08.2021]
Grant CEP: GA ČR(CZ) GA17-26672S
Klíčová slova: revival * politics * folklore revival movement * Czech Republic
Obor OECD: Folklore studies
https://www.academia.edu/49077844/Dance_Age_and_Politics_Proceedings_of_the_30th_Symposium_of_the_ICTM_Study_Group_on_Ethnochoreology

This paper explores state-sponsored non-professional ensembles called ensembles of folk songs and dances that were founded in huge numbers in cities after the WWII as a result of political changes and the Marxist ideology of communism. Representation is discussed here as a form of power – the power of describing others choreographically. In the former Czechoslovakia under socialism, the representation of the nation through the medium of state-sponsored folk ensembles manifested itself in many ways, the two major vehicles being visual and textual. This contribution will be based on the investigation of choreographic strategies of representation which requires conscious decisions regarding who will be represented and how as well as who will not be represented. The primary focus is on the stage productions of Czech folk ensembles that created images of representation of the state and ideology through the choreographic strategies leading to the creation of national and regional stereotypes. This process of stereotypification was based on creating repertoires that are designed for a specific vision of national representation. It refers to the tensions and pressures placed upon the creators of the repertoire to represent the nation in a particular fashion with emblematic features.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0323250