Sustaining Traditional Dance as Intangible Cultural Heritage

Authors

Rebeka Kunej (ed.)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0976-7991
Theresa Jill Buckland (ed.)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9105-2230
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3986/9789610510512

This monograph presents new research on sustaining traditional dance as intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in Europe. Developed primarily within the EU Creative Europe project “Dance as ICH: New Models of Facilitating Participatory Dance Events”, the contributions examine key examples from Belgium, Greece, Hungary, Norway, Romania and Slovenia. The authors explore diverse strategies, dynamics, and responses that emerge when local dance communities, heritage- focused institutions, and the general public seek to assure the vitality of traditional dance practices as intangible cultural heritage. In doing so, they raise essential questions about value, responsibility, and best practices in safeguarding, transmitting, and engaging with dance as heritage in contemporary contexts.

Chapters

  • Front and Introduction / Back
    Rebeka Kunej, Theresa Jill Buckland
  • 1. Safeguarding Dance Heritage
    Interventionism versus Facilitation?
    Georgiana Gore, Egil Bakka
  • 2. Legislation, Education and Ethnography
    Dance Academics as Catalysts of Sustainable Heritage Practices in Greece
    Zoi N. Margari, Maria I. Koutsouba
  • 3. Dancing a Heritage in Horjul
    Contemporary Social Dance Practices and Heritage Discourse
    Rebeka Kunej
  • 4. Safeguarding the Local Heritage
    Wedding Rituals of Sárköz, Hungary
    Dóra Pál-Kovács
  • 5. The Hungarian Phenomenon of Táncház
    A Historical Overview
    Anna Janku
  • 6. The Role of Music and Musicians in the Revitalisation of Dance Heritage
    Drago Kunej
  • 7. Ideologies in Disseminating Traditional Dancing
    Renewed Models and Reflections on Safeguarding Dance as ICH from Norway
    Siri Mæland
  • 8. Transmitting Social Dance Practices in Flanders as Living Heritage
    Mieke Witkamp, Debora Plouy
  • 9. Curating Events of Practice Exhibition
    Four Approaches to Exhibiting Participatory Dance in Museum Contexts
    Tone Erlien Myrvold
  • 10. The Role of the Ethnographic Museum in Safeguarding the Traditional Romanian Dance
    Silvestru Petac
  • 11. Music and Dance at the Intersection of the UNESCO Paradigm and Museology
    Adela Pukl, Anja Jerin
  • 12. Facilitating Dance Activities in an Ethnographic Museum
    A Case Study from ASTRA Museum, Romania
    Simona Maria Malearov, Raluca Ioana Andrei

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978-961-05-1051-2

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978-961-05-1050-5

Date of first publication (11)

22.12.2025

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165 mm x 235 mm
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