Dance, Place, Festival: 27th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology 2012

The 27th Symposium of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM)\nStudy Group on Ethnochoreology took place at the Irish World Academy of Music and\nDance, University of Limerick, Ireland, from 22nd – 29th July, 2012. The University,\nsituated on the River Shannon in the mid-west of Ireland, provided a beautiful location for\nthe Symposium. The year, 2012, marked a fiftieth-year celebration of the Study Group\nthat evolved within the earlier International Folk Music Council (IFMC). Hosting this\nSymposium was, therefore, of special significance to the University of Limerick\nparticularly since the first Master of Arts degree in Ethnochoreology, at any university in\nEurope, was established at the University of Limerick in 1996.\nThe success of this event was due to the assistance and support of many people and\ninstitutions. Micheál Ó Súilleabháin (Director), Sandra Joyce (Acting Director), and\nfaculty and staff of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, facilitated and\nsupported this biennial meeting of the Symposium. The Arts Council of Ireland, the\nEuropean Cultural Contact Point, Fáilte Ireland, and the University of Limerick\nFoundation all provided financial assistance. The National Dance Archive of Ireland at\nthe Glucksman Library, Dance Research Forum Ireland, and ICTM Ireland also provided\nsupport. The many talented students at the Irish World Academy, including alumni of the\npostgraduate programmes in Ethnochoreology and Irish Traditional Dance Performance\ncontributed to the success of the meeting by performing at the Opening Reception and at\nthe 50th Anniversary Concert.\nLike all important events, rigorous organisation in programming combined with\nsocial interaction and networking was pivotal. The Local Arrangements Committee:\nCatherine Foley (Chair), Colin Quigley, Mats Melin, and Orfhlaith Ni Bhriain\ncoordinated their efforts to make the Symposium run in a smooth and professional\nmanner. The Programme Committee: Colin Quigley (Chair), Hanafi Bin Hussin, Mehmet\nÖcal Özbilgin, Daniela Stavelová, and Judy van Zile, skillfuly arranged a programme\nschedule. The board of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, in particular Laszló\nFelfoldi (Chair) and Anne von Bibra Wharton (Secretary), also provided much support\nand assistance.\nPresenters at the Symposium came from far and near including Canada, Croatia,\nCzech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia,\nthe Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, United\nKingdom, and the United States. They presented on two themes. Theme 1: Dance and\nPlace; and Theme 2: Dance and Festival. Thirty-eight individual presenters and one\nroundtable presented on Theme 1, while eighteen individual presenters presented on\nTheme 2.\n\nThroughout the week, various Study Group meetings took place. In addition, recent\nscholarly publications of individuals of the Study Group together with DVD compilations\nof previous Study Group symposia were made available for purchase.\nThe Organising Committee included a number of social and cultural events\nthroughout the week. On Monday evening, 23rd July, it hosted a Céilí dance workshop.\nThis was in preparation for the barbecue Céilí on Saturday evening, 28th July. A film\nevening was also introduced during the Symposium. On Tuesday evening, 24th July, the\nfilm evening took place in Theatre 1 of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.\nThe Pearse Moore Oscar Academy Award nominated film, Dance Lexie Dance (1996)\nwas shown as well as the 'Master Class' documentary programme from the televised\nRising Steps series, produced by Stirling Productions. These were based on Irish dance.\nThree short UNESCO films followed on Flamenco, Slovatsco, and the Mevlevi\nCeremony. On Wednesday afternoon, participants went on an excursion to the village of\nKillaloe in County Clare. Here they had the opportunity to explore the village and go on\na short boat cruise on Lough Derg. On board, members of the Local Arrangements\nCommittee entertained with some Irish traditional music and dance and Symposium\nparticipants also shared music, song and dance from their cultures. This was followed by\ndinner in Flanagan's Restaurant on the banks of Lough Derg.\nAfter the Study Group's Business Meeting on Thursday afternoon, 26th July, the\nparticipants had the opportunity to visit the National Dance Archive of Ireland at the\nGlucksman Library, University of Limerick. This was followed by the Pioneers' Dinner\nand the 50th Anniversary Concert. Students, alumni, and faculty of the Irish World\nAcademy performed at this concert. It included traditional Irish dance and music\nperformances and new choreographed Irish theatrical solos and ensemble works.\nOn the final day, participants went on an optional excursion to the Burren in County\nClare. They also visited the village of Doolin, the Cliffs of Moher, and finished with\ndinner in Bunratty Castle where they were entertained by local traditional musicians and\ndancers.\nAll participants of the Symposium contributed to a stimulating, enjoyable, and a\nculturally enriching experience. This publication is a record of the entire event and the\nscholarly presentations at the Symposium. Abstracts are included for those scholars who\ndid not submit their papers. A number of the texts are written by scholars whose first\nlanguage is not English. To unify the style of the volume, the editors, Elsie Ivancich\nDunin and Catherine Foley, standardised the language use and the reference style format\nof all papers. They endeavoured to retain the voices of the authors. Also, when\nrepresenting the voices of field consultants in papers some scholars chose to use italics\nwhile others did not. The editors permitted both. The Dunin and deAlaiza's DdA reference\nformat for dance as an internationally friendly style format was applied, and British\nEnglish spelling was used throughout.\nThe publication of papers from the 27th Symposium of the Study Group on\nEthnochoreology would not have been possible without the financial support of the\nEuropean Cultural Contact Point and institutional support of the Irish World Academy of\nMusic and Dance, and the University of Limerick.

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