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Dance as a commodity: The Czech Folklore Show
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SYSNO ASEP 0564154 Document Type C - Proceedings Paper (int. conf.) R&D Document Type Conference Paper Title Dance as a commodity: The Czech Folklore Show Author(s) Stavělová, Daniela (UEF-S) RID Number of authors 1 Source Title Dance and Economy, Dance and Transmission, First Edition. - Vilnius : ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology and Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, 2022 / von Bibra Wharton A. ; Urbanavičiene D. - ISBN 978-609-8071-67-2 Pages s. 15-23 Number of pages 8 s. Publication form Print - P Action Symposium of the ICTM Stuidy Group on Ethnochoreology /31./ Event date 12.07.2021 - 18.07.2021 VEvent location Klaipeda Country LT - Lithuania Event type WRD Language eng - English Country LT - Lithuania Keywords folklore show ; tourism ; authenticity ; folk dance ; Czech Republic Subject RIV AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage OECD category 6.5 Other Humanities and the Arts R&D Projects GF22-31474K GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) Institutional support UEF-S - RVO:68378076 Annotation 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. Workplace Institute of Ethnology Contact Veronika Novotná, novotna@eu.cas.cz, Tel.: 532 290 277 Year of Publishing 2023 Electronic address https://www.bib.irb.hr/1208319
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