Balkan Dance: Essays on Characteristics, Performance and Teaching
- Author: Shay, Anthony
Balkan Dance: Essays on Characteristics, Performance and Teaching
- Author: Shay, Anthony
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This collection of essays examines popular forms of dance in the Balkan nations, including detailed studies on the history and development of dance in Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia, Romania, and Greece, among other nations. The essays address the ways in which ethnic and national identity constitutes an important aspect of the performance of Balkan dance, whether by state folk dance ensembles or immigrant groups in other countries. Several essays also examine the unique popularity that Balkan dances and music have found among American audiences, with special attention paid to the work of international folk dancer Dick Crum in promoting Balkan dance within the United States.
Contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1. Richard George “Dick” Crum: A Life
- ROBERT HENRY LEIBMAN
- 2. Introduction: Choreographing the Balkans
- ANTHONY SHAY
- Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Performance
- 3. Transnational ToVek: Gender and the Politics of Balkan Romani Dance
- CAROL SILVERMAN
- 4. Dance and Place: The Case of a Roma Community in Northern Greece
- CHRISTOS PAPAKOSTAS
- 5. Dance as Propaganda: The Metaxas Regime’s Stadium Ceremonies, 1937–1940
- IRENE LOUTZAKI
- 6. Nationalism and Scholarship in Transylvanian Ethnochoreology
- COLIN QUIGLEY
- 7. Bulgarian Dance Culture: From Censorship to Chalga
- ERICA NIELSEN
- 8. Clapping for Serbs: Nationalism and Performance
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- LYNN D. MANERS
- 9. Choreographing the Other: The Serbian State Folk Dance Ensemble, Gypsies, Muslims, and Albanians
- ANTHONY SHAY
- Balkan Dance in America
- 10. “Inside, Outside, Upside-Down”: The Role of Mainstream Society Participants in the Ethnic Dance Movement
- ROBIN J. EVANCHUK
- 11. Balkan Tradition, American Alternative: Dance, Community, and the People of the Pines
- JUNE ADLER VAIL
- Morphology of Balkan Dance and Music
- 12. Hai la Joc! Periodicity at Play in Romanian Dance Music
- JAMIE L. WEBSTER
- 13. Dvoransko Kolo: From the 1840s to the Twentieth Century
- NANCY LEE CHALFA RUYTER
- 14. Dance Structure and Its Application to the Understanding of Macedonian “Cross” Dances
- ROBERT HENRY LEIBMAN
- About the Contributors
- Index
