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A balkáni kör- és lánctánckultúra 3D kartográfiája - 3D Cartography of the Balkans' Chain and Round Dance Heritage

PROJECT CONTENT

The round and chain dance culture is a common heritage of the European dance culture. This ancient rooted phenomenon is not only a dance cultural but a general cultural heritage as it was spread is whole Europe in all layers of the societies in the centuries of the middle ages. As a common dance form (social dance form), connecting more people with tactile connection, it was a fashion dance form from the ancient times till the first centuries of the second millennium. It started to be losing out with the spread of a new dance cultural phenomenon: the couple dance culture. The procession of the disappearance naturally ruined in a multi chronological line in Europe: while on the economically developed territories the disappearence started in the early renaissance, in Eastern Europe or Southeastern Europe (or some relict-territories such as the Faroe Islands - Færøerne) this common heritage survived till the 20th Century or further. On the Balkans this dance form is a part of the everyday dance culture even today. But the round or chain dances more or less were present in most European countries: in the folklore heritage.

This dance form appears in the folklore stage adaptations of the European dance folklore. In the folklore heritage and stage adaptations of the Eastern European countries this dance heritage is seen more often than in the Western countries, but in the folklore heritage and stage adaptations of the Balkans - especially the dances of Orthodox cultural territories - the round and chain is a dominant form.

As a ritual rooted and social connected dance form, the round and chain dance culture begins to enjoy widespread popularity again. The fields of this fashion are the nexts: Balkan dance clubs in each countries of Europe (e. g. Germany, Austria, Belgium etc.), the Hungarian speciality, the Táncház ('dance-house') model of teaching folk dance has a special section: Balkan Táncház events; the so called circle dance clubs spread in whole Europe; the contemplative circle dance as a religious practice; the events of migrated people of the Balkan countries, as a preservation of home-country-culture, or even in the home-country, such as the Bulgarian dance-clubs in Bulgaria.

The VR research background will be given by the Department of Computer Science and Library and Information Science - University of Debrecen in cooperation with a Polish university. The basics of the research are laid down in a PhD doctoral research of the ritual dances of the Orthodox South-Slavic culture. In this project the round and chain dance cultural heritage of the Balkan Peninsula will be explored by a Virtual Reality edited in a google maps-like structure. 

Author: Anna Maria Bólya

Arts 5.0 / Minden jog fenntartva
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