Balkan Dance

Award winning choreographer Anthony Shay is an associate professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Pomona College, Claremont, California. His articles have appeared in Dance Research Journal, Iranian Studies Journal, International Encyclopedia of Dance, and other publications.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Preface      1. Richard George “Dick” Crum: A LifeROBERT HENRY LEIBMAN      2. Introduction: Choreographing the BalkansANTHONY SHAY      Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Performance3. Transnational ToVek: Gender and the Politics of Balkan Romani DanceCAROL SILVERMAN      4. Dance and Place: The Case of a Roma Community in Northern GreeceCHRISTOS PAPAKOSTAS      5. Dance as Propaganda: The Metaxas Regime’s Stadium Ceremonies, 1937–1940IRENE LOUTZAKI      6. Nationalism and Scholarship in Transylvanian EthnochoreologyCOLIN QUIGLEY      7. Bulgarian Dance Culture: From Censorship to ChalgaERICA NIELSEN      8. Clapping for Serbs: Nationalism and PerformanceBosnia and HerzegovinaLYNN D. MANERS      9. Choreographing the Other: The Serbian State Folk Dance Ensemble, Gypsies, Muslims, and AlbaniansANTHONY SHAY      Balkan Dance in America10. “Inside, Outside, Upside-Down”: The Role of Mainstream Society Participants in the Ethnic Dance MovementROBIN J. EVANCHUK      11. Balkan Tradition, American Alternative: Dance, Community, and the People of the PinesJUNE ADLER VAIL      Morphology of Balkan Dance and Music12. Hai la Joc! Periodicity at Play in Romanian Dance MusicJAMIE L. WEBSTER      13. Dvoransko Kolo: From the 1840s to the Twentieth CenturyNANCY LEE CHALFA RUYTER      14. Dance Structure and Its Application to the Understanding of Macedonian “Cross” DancesROBERT HENRY LEIBMAN      About the Contributors      Index