ISBN: 978-80-7331-236-7 | ISBN online: 978-80-7331-784-3 | DOI: 10.62804/978-80-7331-236-7

Dance, Gender, and Meanings

Elsie Ivancich Dunin (ed.), Daniela Stavělová (ed.), Dorota Gremlicová (ed.), Zdeněk Vejvoda, Ann R. David, Gonca Girgin Tohumcu, Mats Melin, Mohd Anis Md Nor, Elina Seye, Stephanie Smith, Yolanda van Ede, Gürbüz Aktas, Anca Giurchescu, Nick Green, Daniela Ivanova-Nyberg, Adrienne L. Kaeppler, Belma Kurtisoglu, Liz Mellish, Mats Nilsson, Judith Olson, Mehmet Ozal Ozbilgin, Miriam Phillips, Nancy Lee Ruyter, Helena Saarikoski, Jiang You, Orfhlaith M. Ní Bhriain, Catherine E. Foley, Breandán de Gallaí, Jorgen Torp, Egil Bakka, Gediminas Karoblis

The Proceedings include contributions from the 26th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology. These texts concern two themes: 1. Dance, Gender, and Meaning, 2. Contemporizing Traditional Dance. They advance various points of view, examples and conceptual frames for understanding dance in connection with these two topics. The authors are researchers from around the world, examining dance from numerous perspectives, but with a common theoretical background formed by ethnochoreology, ethnology and dance anthropology. Seven papers on the first theme research the relationship between gender, dance, and its meaning in connection with the issues of identity, socialization, the teaching process, femininity and masculinity etc. Fifteen contributions and three panels are related to the second theme. The phenomenon of contemporizing traditional dance is explored from the perspectives of identity, issues of safeguarding heritage and its preservation, various social contexts, relations between traditional dance and theatre, authenticity, politics, aesthetic and cultural values, and commodification. The texts are accompanied by photos.

1. edition, Published: 2012, online: 2026, publisher: Akademie múzických umění v Praze