Dance in the Field

EGIL BAKKA Director, Centre of the Norwegian Council for Folk Music and Folk Dance and Adjunct Professor in Ethnochoreology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, TrondheimBRENDA FARNELL Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of IllinoisLASZLO FELFÖLDI Head of the Folk Dance Department, Institute of Musicology, Academy of Sciences, BudapestANCA GIURCHESCU Chair of the International Council for Traditional Music Study Group on EthnochoreologyANDRÉE GRAU Senior Lecturer in Dance, Roehampton Institute, London, and Associate Lecturer, London Contemporary Dance SchoolGEORGINA GORE Ph.D., Maître de Conférences, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand II, FranceFRANK HALL Teacher, Indiana State University and performer with Rhythm in Shoes, Dayton, OhioFELICIA HUGHES-FREELAND Senior Lecturer, Social Anthropology, University of WalesE.JEAN JOHNSON JONES Lecturer, Department of Dance Studies, University of SurreyADRIENNE L. KAEPPLER Curator of Oceanic Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DCMARIA KOUTSOUBA Lecturer, School of Intercultural Education, Military Academy, AthensANDRIY NAHACHEWSKY Huculak Chair of Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography, University of Alberta, Edmonton, CanadaOWE RONSTRÖM Assistant Professor, Institute for Folklife Studies, University of StockholmJUDY VAN ZILE Professor of Dance, University of Hawai'i, ManoaDRID WILLIAMS conducted fieldwork in England, USA, Australia and Kenya

• List of Plates Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Reflecting on Dance Ethnography; T.J.Buckland PART ONE: THEORETICAL DIMENSIONS The Mystique of Fieldwork; A.L.Kaeppler Fieldwork; D.Williams Past and Present in Field Research: A Critical History of Personal Experience; A.Giurchescu Folk Dance Research in Hungary: Relations Between Theory, Fieldwork and the Archive; L.Felföldi 'Or Shortly They Would Be Lost Forever': Documenting for Revival and Research; E.Bakka PART TWO: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES Capturing the Dancing: How and Why?; J.van Zile The Choreographic Notebook : A Dynamic Documentation of the Choreographic Process of Kokuma Dance Theatre, an African-Caribbean Dance Company; E.J.Johnson Jones Dance on Film: Strategy and Serendipity; F.Hughes-Freeland Madness and Recall: Storied Data on Irish Dancing; F.Hall It Takes Two - or More - to Tango: Researching Traditional Music/Dance Interrelations; O.Ronström It Goes Without Saying - But Not Always; B.Farnell PART THREE: POLITICS AND POWER Fieldwork, Politics and Power; A.Grau Searching for Branches, Searching for Roots: Fieldwork in my Grandfather's Village; A.Nahachewsky 'Outsider' in an 'Inside' World, or Dance Ethnography at Home; M.Koutsouba [Re]Constructing Meanings: The Dance Ethnographer as Keeper of the Truth; T.J.Buckland Textual Fields: Representation in Dance Ethnography; G.Gore Index