THEMES FOR PRESENTATIONS

The 33rd Symposium of the Study Group on Ethnochoreology is taking place and hosted by the Department of Turkish Folk Dances at Ege University State Turkish Music Conservatory.

Theme 1: The use of film as empirical material or as a method in dance research.

• Methodological questions or problems in using films in dance research.
• Where should the camera be pointed? What does the camera miss?
• How we adapt our ethnographic methods when doing fieldwork, in media, or on the internet.
  • Aesthetics
  • Ethics
• How we use film archives in our dance research.
  • Primary and secondary sources
  • Analysis
  • Restitution
• The ways in which people “in the field” are watching and using various devices to look at dance, learn dance, etc.
  • What do they look for?
  • Who are their audiences?
• Commercial/ Educational films using dance.
• Dance films for activism.
• Dance as an element in fiction films.

Theme 2: The interactions and interrelations between dance and music, dancers and musicians.

• How is the relationship between dance and music reflected through language?
• The body as dancing and musical instrument.
• Relations between dance and music and its analysis (using formal analysis or other methodologies).
• Methodological questions when combining dance and music.
• Relations (tensions, complicity, and so on) between dancers and musicians.
• Motivational relationships between dancers and musicians.
• Leadership relationships between dancers and musicians.
• Establishment/use of forms of power and hegemony among dancers and musicians.
• Dancing to live vs recorded music.
• The importance of the musician in the dance creation/learning/performance.
• The importance of music knowledge in dance education.
• Facilitating the performance of the musician during dance instruction
• The role of the musician in the dance community.
• Musicians as creators of the dance environment.
• The contribution of musicians to the formation of traditional forms of dance.
• The relationship between musicians and dancers in the economic context of dance.
• The dancer-musician relationship and professionalism.
• The dancer-musician relationship in amateur dance contexts.
• Economic factors that affect the dance environment, such as tips or payment for live music.
• The contribution of musicians in Dance Studies.
• Musicians as resource persons in dance fieldwork.
• Dance knowledge of musicians in the analysis of dance tradition.
• The contribution of dancers and musicians to movement and music notation.
• The role of musical knowledge in dance analysis.
• Gender influences on the relationship between dancers and musicians.
• Relationships between dancers and musicians of the same/different gender.

In-person presentations may be recorded by the organisers via audiovisual media and photos. If you explicitly would like to avoid this, please let us know via ictm.prg.2024@gmail.com