| İçindekiler/ Contents |
| Theme 1: Traditional Dance and its Historical Sources |
| Egil Bakka |
The Polka Before and After Polka |
3 |
| Theresa J. Buckland |
Between Pictures, Words and Memory: Constructing Past Dances |
18 |
| Grazyna W. Dabrowska |
Traditional Dances and their Historical Sources in Poland |
27 |
| Fahriye Dinçer |
Alevi Semahs in Historical Perspective |
32 |
| Catherine Foley |
Irısh Traditional Step-dance in Historical Perspective: Tradition, Identity and Popular Culture |
43 |
| Georgiana Gore |
Present Texts, Past Voices: The Formation of Contemporary Represantations of West African Dances |
56 |
| Anna Ilieva |
Historical-typological Aproach to the Study of Traditional Dance Culture |
67 |
| Adrienne L. Kaeppler |
Moments in the history of Tongan Dances from Captain Cook to the 80th Birthday of King TAUFA`AHAU TUPOU IV |
73 |
| Bruce Koepke |
Contemporary Dance History of Afghanistan: the Interplay of Traditions, Religion and Politics |
92 |
| Maria Koutsouba |
Understanding synchrony Through Diachrony |
101 |
| Mohd Anis Md Nor |
Between Myth and History: Reconstructing Traditional Dances in Southeast Asia |
115 |
| Andriy Nahachewsky |
Once Again: On the Concept of "Second Existence Folk Dance" |
125 |
| Mats Nilsson |
Dances of Yesterday- dancing Today The Example of Swedish Polska |
144 |
| Dorothy Noyes |
Cultivating Memory in Catalan Calendar Custom |
151 |
| Anna Shturbanova |
Historical and Typological Aspect in the Study of The Horo Dance in Northwestern Bulgaria |
166 |
| Barbara Sparti |
Traditional Dance in Renaissance And Baroque Italy (1455-1630) |
171 |
| Daniela Stavelova |
Traditional Czech Dancing in Historical Perspective |
188 |
| Judy Van Zile |
Korean Dance Terminology: Politics and Words |
198 |
| Theme 2: Creative Processes in Dance: Improvisation and Composition |
| Ramazan H. Bogdani |
Albanian Folk Dancing: Improvisation and Individuality |
215 |
| Zamfir Dejeu |
L'improvisation dans le Complexe Syncretique 'Danse Traditionnelle' |
224 |
| Elsie Ivancich Dunin |
Dancing in the Crossroads by the Skopje Roma during St. George's Day |
244 |
| Helene E. Eriksen |
An Intimate Look at Improvisation |
255 |
| Anca Giurchescu |
Interpreting a Dancer's Discourse on Improvisation |
259 |
| Christine Glauser |
Dance Improvisation in Eratira, Northern Greece |
275 |
| Frank Hall |
Creativity in Irish Step-Dancing: Rewards and Dangers |
289 |
| Zhenja Khachatryan |
The Armenian Sources of Treatment by Dance |
300 |
| Naira Kilichyan |
Clap Dances: The Stage Version |
305 |
| Dariusz Kubinowski |
The Kinesthetic Understanding as a Methodological Cetegory in the Reconstruction of Traditional Dance |
309 |
| Kari Margrete Okstad |
Improvisation and Composition in Old Couple Dance from Norway |
315 |
| Mehmet Öcal Özbilgin |
Differences of Creative Prcesses in Local Communities on Stage with the Example Of Aegeon Region Zeybek Dances |
323 |
| Jürgen Torp |
Tango: Improvisation in a Couple dance |
330 |
| Report: |
| Iva Niemcic |
Report on Current Activities of the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research and Sword Dance Research in Croatia |
339 |
