Dance, Age and Politics Proceedings of the 30th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology Edited by Vivien Apjok Kinga Povedák Vivien Szőnyi Sándor Varga SZTE BTK Néprajzi és Kulturális Antropológiai Tanszék Published with the support of the Emberi Erőforrás Támogatáskezelő Nemzeti Kulturális Alap (NKA) DANCE, AGE AND POLITICS Proceedings of the 30 Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology 28th July – 3rd August 2018 Szent-Györgyi Albert Agóra Cultural Centre, Szeged th Editors: Apjok, Vivien Povedák, Kinga Szőnyi, Vivien Varga, Sándor Language Proofreaders: Bibra Wharton, Anne von Mellish, Liz Nahachewsky, Andriy 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 Hungary 2021 Proceedings of the 30th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology Symposium 2018 28th July – 3rd August International Council for Traditional Music Study Group on Ethnochoreology The 30th Symposium was organized by the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, and hosted by the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology (University of Szeged, Hungary), the Hungarian Association for Ethnochoreology, and the Institute for Musicology (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest). Program Committee: Georgiana Gore (Co-Chair) Daniela Stavĕlová (Co-Chair) Chi-Fang Chao Maria Koutsouba Mats Nilsson Local Arrangements Committee: Sándor Varga (Chair) Vivien Apjok (Administrator) Vivien Szőnyi János Fügedi Editors: Vivien Apjok, Kinga Povedák, Vivien Szőnyi and Sándor Varga Language Proofreaders: Anne von Bibra Wharton, Liz Mellish, Andriy Nahachewsky Cover Design: Innovariant Nyomdaipari Kft. Cover Photograph: Dancers from Magyarfráta (Frata) accompanied by musicians from Mezőszopor (Soporu de Câmpie). Photograph by Sándor Varga (April 19, 2018). Printed in Hungary ISBN 978-615-5167-34-8 CONTENTS Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Greeting Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Editorial Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Conference Programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Theme 1 – Dance and Politics Catherine E . FOLEY The Politics of Knowledge: An Examination of the Impact of Ethnochoreology on the Curriculum Design of an MA in Irish Traditional Dance Performance Programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Maria I . KOUTSOUBA Dance and the Politics of Knowledge or Politics and the Knowledge of Dance? Looking at Politics through the Teaching of Dance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Rebeka KUNEJ Folk Dance Knowledge and its Transmissions outside the Scope of Research: Slovenian Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Irene LOUTZAKI Celebrity Politicians: Popular Dance and the Politics of Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Rainer POLAK Presenting Yourself through Dance: Participatory and Presentational Aspects of Dance Performance at Local Festivities in Southern Mali. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Sille KAPPER Estonian Dance Celebration and the Politics of Knowledge Transmission . . . . . . . . 83 Adair LANDBORN Radical Territory: Rocío Molina’s Iconoclastic Choreography and the Flamenco Body as a Site of Female Emancipation Through Somatic Transformation and Kinetic Resistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Linda DANKWORTH Cultural Identities Redefined in Mallorquin Dance Through the Politics of Shared Public Places, Nationalism and Tourism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 5 Pegge VISSICARO Moving Community, Making Place: Public Square Dance as Political Activism in Xichang, Sichuan Province, China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Gergana PANOVA-TEKATH Professional Folk Dancing as a Political Mission. The Bulgarian Pre- and Post-1989 Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Lily ANTZAKA-WEIS Nationalizing Greek Folk Dancing – From Non-Western to Greek-only, and from Rural to National . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 İdris ERSAN KÜCÜK Analysing Rize Folk Dances in the Context of Official Ideology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Dóra PÁL-KOVÁCS The Csárdás of Magyarózd village as an Example of Transgressing Social Norms: Touching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Andriy NAHACHEWSKY Détourning Participatory Dances: Two Ukrainian Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Placida STARO “The Vala is a Serious Thing”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Sydney HUTCHINSON Followers Strike Back! The Dynamics of Dialogue in Contemporary Partner Dance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Liz MELLISH & Nick GREEN Politics of Representation, Identity and Minorities as Portrayed through Local Dance in the Banat Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Jeanette MOLLENHAUER “Irish” or “Irish-Australian,” but not “British:” Dance, Identity Construction and the Hegemonies of Diasporic Politics in Sydney, Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Fahriye DİNÇER An Analysis of the Place of Dance in Relation to Identity Construction Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Barbara ČURDA Controversies on Correct Performance of the Classical Dance form Odissi in Bhubaneswar in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 6 Filip PETKOVSKI Staging Macedonia: The Interplay of Politics and Representation in the Work of the National Ensemble of Folk Dances and Songs of Macedonia Tanec. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Daniela IVANOVA-NYBERG Representations of the Nation: Philip Koutev National Ensemble and National Ensemble Bulgare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 Theresa JACOBS Participative Folk Dances Among the Sorbs as a Strategy of Creative Collective Resilience – The “Serbska Reja” Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Lucie HAYASHI How much for a Dancer? Culture Policy in Japan and Czech Republic towards Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251 ROUNDTABLE – Andrée Grau’s ‘Soft Politics’: Reflections on Grau’s 2016 article “Why People Dance – Evolution, Sociality and Dance” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Gediminas KAROBLIS Political Origin of Dance / Kinetic Origin of Politics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 Georgiana GORE Dancing: Experimental Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Marie-Pierre GIBERT Power of Dance and Experimentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Mats NILSSON The Ongoing Fight for Ownership of Folk Dance in Sweden Thinking in Progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 Linnea HELMERSSON Swedish Folk Dance as a Contested and Politicized Scene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 Konstantinos DIMOPOULOS From Body Politics to the Politics of Embodied Action – Gender and Gender Relations Policies through the Dance Practices of a Greek Communnity (Megala Kalyvia, Thessaly) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 Georgios K . FOUNTZOULAS Dancing the Politics: The Case of the Dancing Ritual Gaitanaki at the Skala Community in Central Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 Chariton CHARITONIDIS Dance and Politics: The Case of Greek Political Refugees in Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 7 Daniela STAVĚLOVÁ Power of Representations: Stereotypification and Selectivity in Dance Performances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 Dorota GREMLICOVÁ Czech Folk Dance and Song Ensembles Guided and Appraised – Political Artistic Program, its Realization, Modification and Evaluation . . . . . . . . . 325 Stephanie SMITH Setting the Scene: Cecil Sharp’s “Running Set” and its Legacy 100 Years Later . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333 Phil JAMISON Cecil Sharp’s “Running Set” – Diversity and Dance in Appalachia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341 Stefano REYES Method of Connective Contexts: A Trans-Disciplinary Method between Dance and Urban Analysis to Observe and Compare Meeting Situation. . . . . . . . . . 351 Josef BARTOŠ Pressure from Above: Dancing Dissidence in Czechoslovakia in the Beginning of the 1950s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 Theme 2 – Dance and Age Mark E . PERRY The Sardana as a Generational Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365 Judith E . OLSON Intergenerational Transformation of Balkan Dance in New York: Not Your Mother’s Folk Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371 Leslie HALL Ballroom Dance in the Toronto Area: A Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385 Raymundo RUIZ Writing down the Jarabe Tapatío from Tradition to Academia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395 Anne von BIBRA WHARTON Village Youth and the Plantanz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407 Daniela MACHOVÁ Transmission of Dance Knowledge between Dancing Masters and Participants of Ballroom Dance Courses in the 21st Century: Tradition versus Modernity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419 8 Vivien SZŐNYI How Changes of Age and Social Status are Manifested in the Moldavian Csángó Dance Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423 Anna SZÉKELY Dance Knowledge in the Current Hungarian Folk Dance Revival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431 Revised Abstracts Selena RAKOČEVIĆ Dance and Politics: Ethnochoreological Research in Post-socialist Societies of Former Yugoslavia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439 Sándor VARGA The Impact of the Hungarian and Romanian Revival on Dance Traditions of Villages in the Transylvanian Plain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441 Kendra STEPPUTAT Restricted Participation in a Participatory Dance – Tango Argentino and its Elite Structure Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443 Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445 Biographies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461 Photo Moments of the 2018 Symposium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477 9