Balkan Dance: Essays on Characteristics, Performance and Teaching

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