Sustaining Traditional Dance as Intangible Cultural Heritage
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.
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Front and Introduction / Back
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1. Safeguarding Dance HeritageInterventionism versus Facilitation?
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2. Legislation, Education and EthnographyDance Academics as Catalysts of Sustainable Heritage Practices in Greece
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3. Dancing a Heritage in HorjulContemporary Social Dance Practices and Heritage Discourse
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4. Safeguarding the Local HeritageWedding Rituals of Sárköz, Hungary
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5. The Hungarian Phenomenon of TáncházA Historical Overview
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6. The Role of Music and Musicians in the Revitalisation of Dance Heritage
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7. Ideologies in Disseminating Traditional DancingRenewed Models and Reflections on Safeguarding Dance as ICH from Norway
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8. Transmitting Social Dance Practices in Flanders as Living Heritage
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9. Curating Events of Practice ExhibitionFour Approaches to Exhibiting Participatory Dance in Museum Contexts
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10. The Role of the Ethnographic Museum in Safeguarding the Traditional Romanian Dance
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11. Music and Dance at the Intersection of the UNESCO Paradigm and Museology
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12. Facilitating Dance Activities in an Ethnographic MuseumA Case Study from ASTRA Museum, Romania
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