This paper explores the transmission of local dance knowledge in contemporary Romania by focussing on ‘motivation’ and ‘continuity’ as key parameters. We examine the methods currently used by dancers to acquire their local dance knowledge; the dance experience of the teachers and mentors who transmit this knowledge; and the situations …read more
This thesis investigates the lives, movements and performances of dancers in a Romanian urban folk ensemble from an anthropological perspective. Drawing on an extended period of fieldwork in the Romanian city of Timisoara, it gives an inside view of participation in organised cultural performances involving a local way of moving, …read more
In this paper the authors look at the ways in which the visibility of contemporary public presentations of music and dance in Romanian Banat provide a mechanism to reinforce local identity, and have led to a renewed interest by locals to participate on such occasions. In this region Banat music, …read more