Dance, gender and meanings
Subtitle: contemporizing traditional dance : proceedings of the 26th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology 2010 : Třešť, Czech Republic
By: editors Elsie Ivancich Dunin, Daniela Stavělová, Dorota Gremlicová ; assisted by Zdeněk Vejvovda
Publisher: Academy of Performing Arts; Institute of Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Prague
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9788073312367
Subjects: Folk dancing; Congresses; Gender identity in dance; Choreography; Ethnology
Notes: The phenomenon of contemporizing traditional dance is explored from the perspective of identity, tasks of safeguarding the heritage and preservation, various social contexts, relations between the traditional dance and theatre, authenticity, politics, aesthetic and cultural values, commodification.