Dance as a commodity: The Czech Folklore Show

0564154 - EÚ 2023 RIV LT eng C - Konferenční příspěvek (zahraniční konf.)
Stavělová, Daniela
Dance as a commodity: The Czech Folklore Show.
Dance and Economy, Dance and Transmission. Vol. First Edition. Vilnius: ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology and Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, 2022 - (von Bibra Wharton, A.; Urbanavičiene, D.), s. 15-23. ISBN 978-609-8071-67-2.
[Symposium of the ICTM Stuidy Group on Ethnochoreology /31./. Klaipeda (LT), 12.07.2021-18.07.2021]
Grant CEP: GA ČR(CZ) GF22-31474K
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378076
Klíčová slova: folklore show * tourism * authenticity * folk dance * Czech Republic
Obor OECD: 6.5 Other Humanities and the Arts
https://www.bib.irb.hr/1208319

The contribution deals with the dance productions of Czech folklore show for tourists visiting Prague. This phenomenon has its origins in 1970´when few people – dancers and musicians from folklore ensembles – started to be invited to dance for tourists in prestigious hotels. After 1989 “velvet revolution” the business with folklore became a part of tourism where the dance has its specific role. An increasing number of special pubs offering Czech meal, costume, song, and dance show during an evening, provokes several questions as to how folk dance can become a profitable commodity, what trade rules apply here and what the demand-supply ratio is, and which elements of the traditional culture are picked up from the repertoire of traditional music and dance to represent the “real Czechness”. The research is based on the observation of the strategies of several folklore pubs in Prague and deep interviews with actors which enable to see the inner side of the process.
Trvalý link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0336355