Dance as ICH: New models of facilitating participatory dance events
Principal Investigator at ZRC SAZU
Rebeka Kunej, PhD-
Original Title
Dance as ICH: New models of facilitating participatory dance events
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Acronym
Dance - ICH
Project Team
Drago Kunej, PhD, Anja Serec Hodžar, MA, Ana Vrtovec Beno, PhD-
Project ID
Project 101056200 — Dance - ICH
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Duration
1 June 2022–30 November 2025 -
Lead Partner
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Financial Source
Creative Europe
ARIS
Partners
The Museums of Southern Trøndelag (MiST) , CEMPER, Centre for Music and Performing Arts Heritage in Flanders , Slovenski etnografski muzej (SEM) , ASTRA National Museum Complex , The Hellenic Folklore Research Centre (HFRC) - Academy of Athens , The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) , The Hungarian Open Air Museum (Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum)
From 2022 to 2025 the project Dance as ICH: New models of facilitating participatory dance events (Dance - ICH) will explore facilitation of dance as intangible cultural heritage and the relationship between local dance heritage communities, museums, heritage institutions and the public.
The project’s main objective is to strengthen the capacity and knowledge in the museum and the cultural heritage sector's work on dancing as intangible cultural heritage (ICH), as a current contemporary facilitation practice, and to establish new or renewed models for participatory dance events as a co-creative process in call from heritage communities.
This project aims to develop innovative methods, processes, and arenas for participatory folk dancing as ICH of the 21st century. It aims to trigger new ways of acting and thinking about facilitation of ICH, to develop and reinforce the capacity of the researchers, curators and other cultural heritage professionals.
Innovation plays a key role in establishing sustainable structures to ensure that future generations feel affiliated to European cultural heritage in a participative, bottom-up manner. Dance as ICH is calling for a renewal of the exhibition towards events of practice, and where the traditional role of researchers, curators, administrators and others are challenged. In such, innovation is necessary and a natural part of the customisation and adaption to new era.
The Institute of Ethnomusicology of the ZRC SAZU, which collaborates on this project, is concerned with historical and contemporary aspects of folk music and dance traditions in Slovenia. Researchers from the Institute of ethnomusicology ZRC SAZU will get to know and cooperate with local community to raise awareness, ensure respect, and safeguard their dance traditions. The aim of this part of the project is to introduce the heritage of the local community from the archives (the case study), to “give them back” their music and dance as important identifiers of place and time. There is a desire to raise people’s awareness about ICH, establish contacts with heritage bearers and to create interest in heritage stored in the Institute archives.
Link to the Project Website: https://www.dancingaslivingheritage.eu/
