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Workshop 4 - Academy of Athens (Greece)


  • Academy of Athens 28 Panepistimiou Athina, 106 79 Greece (map)

The Hellenic Folklore Research Centre of the Academy of Athens is the forth partner to organise a series of workshops in Athens (Greece), from Thursday the 14th to Saturday the 16th of December 2023.

The aim of the workshops is to share experiences and knowledge about dance as living heritage of the 21st century and to meditate about the relation between dance ethnography, dance transmission and management in participative co-creative social contexts.

Inspiring examples will be presented in order to discuss sustainable models of interaction between dance ethnography research, dance educational programmes. In particular, sustainable models of interaction between dance ethnography research, dance educational programmes and dance cultural management practices as conducted in post-modern environments will be examined. Additionally, centred on dance as living heritage, focus will be given on regional and national case studies to explore the relationship between dance as living heritage, knowledgeability and sustainable development. Dance research and knowledge, dance experiences and practices, in relation to the post-modern framework of applicative cultural management policies, will be discussed. Thus, their importance for heritage communities and their heritage will be revealed. Moreover, recognising cultural heritage as an all-inclusive concept and emphasising on its importance as a socio-economic catalyser and as a powerful tool for sustainable development, the EU’s participatory policies and actions will also gain our attention. So, based on ethnographic examples, initiatives to progressively build a participatory, co-creational, transnational model of a community-centred dance cultural heritage management will be unveiled.

The workshops are free and open to the public, but registration is required. Everyone interested or involved with intangible cultural heritage and/or dance is welcome to join one or more workshops.

There is no registration fee, but registration is required via e-mail:

keel@academyofathens.gr

Location:

ACADEMY OF ATHENS, GREECE

Academy of Athens' Main Building, East Wing: 28, Panepistimiou St., 106 79, Athens

The workshops can be followed online via Zoom:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/7733639611?pwd=U29HbFoxV3pMYldyY2RnSnM0REtmZz09 
Meeting ID: 773 363 9611
Passcode: 1234

Programme in EET Time.

 

Day 1: Thursday, 14th December 2023

Programme:

08:30–09:00 Welcome and Registration

09:00-10:30 Culture as Intangible Heritage. The Greek example

Moderators: Aikaterini Polymerou-Kamilaki, Evangelos Karamanes, Tone Erlien Myrvold

  • Implementing the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (UNESCO, 2003) in Greece, Stavroula-Villy K. Fotopoulou, Head of the Directorate of Modern Cultural Heritage, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports

  • Polyphonic Caravan, Creating and Developing a Good Safeguarding Practice of Living Heritage, Αliki Gkana, Lawyer – Alexandros Lampridis, Cinematographer, Leaders (“Kiratzides”) of the Polyphonic Caravan

  • Implementing the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (UNESCO, 2003) in Greece, Elena Bazini, Archaeologist-Social Anthropologist, Directorate of Modern Cultural Heritage. Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Intercultural Affairs

10:30-11:00 Culture as Intangible Heritage. Theoretical and Methodological Issues 

  • The UNESCO convention on intangible cultural heritage from the perspective of cultural anthropology: Issues of representation and repositioning of traditional music and dance, Dr Pavlos Kavouras, Emeritus Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Head of the UNESCO Chair "Anthropology of Traditional Music: Representing and Repositioning Intangible Cultural Heritage"

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Intangible Cultural Heritage: Elements of transmission and knowledge in institutional contexts: The case of museums and foundations

Moderators: Zoi N. Margari, Stavroula-Villy K. Fotopoulou, Kyriaki Chryssou-Karatza

  • The carnival events at the Museum of Modern Greek Cullture: dis-placement of ritual enactement in the urban context, Panayiota Andrianopoulou, Ethnologist - Head of the Collections, Research and Documentation of Folk Art Department of the Museum of Modern Greek Culture

  • The Museum of Greek Folk Instruments “Fivos Anoyanakis” - Centre for Ethnomusicology as a venue for highlighting and safeguarding the musical heritage, including dance, Vasiliki Polyzoi, Folklorist-Museologist, Museum of Greek Folk Instruments "Fivos Anoyanakis" – Centre for Ethnomusicology

  • Getting to know the Megara traditions and culture in the Vassilios Papantoniou Foundation, Dr Irene Loutzaki, Dance Anthropologist - Curator at the Vassilios Papantoniou Foundation

13:00-15:00 Break

15:00-16:00 Intangible Cultural Heritage: Elements of transmission and knowledge in institutional contexts. The case of cultural associations

Moderators: John Plemmenos, Siri Mæland, Katia Savrami

  • The function of the Greek traditional dance and the role of the cultural associations, Dr Dimitris Goulimaris, Professor, School of Physical Education and Sport Science, Democritus University of Thrace

  • Dance as an Intangible Cultural Element: viewpoints and contradictions during its use by different dancing associations, Dr Filippos Filippou, Professor, School of Physical Education and Sport Science, Democritus University of Thrace

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-17:30 Intangible Cultural Heritage: The dancing body and the use of technologies

Moderators: Maria I. Koutsouba, Rebeka Kunej, Debora Plouy

  • The use of technology for the transmission of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) knowledge: the case of Greek traditional dance, Dr Stella Douka, Professor, School of Physical Education and Sport Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

  • The Dancing body as social agent, Dr Katia Savrami, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre Studies, University of Patras

17:30-18:00 Coffee Break

18:00-19:00 Welcome Ceremony. Addresses by Representatives of the Academy of Athens, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Day 2: Friday, 15th December 2023


Programme:

09:30-11:00 Ethnography, Cultural Heritage Analysis and Management: International Practices and Regional Applications. The case of the Hellenic Folklore Research Centre 

Moderators: Georgios Vozikas, Stamatis Zochios, Emmanouela Katrinaki

  • Folklore archives and ethnographic fieldwork in collaboration with the communities in the era of intangible heritage, Dr Evangelos Karamanes, Research Director, Acting Director, Hellenic Folklore Research Centre - Academy of Athens

  • The Historic Cafés on the way to the ICH National Inventory of Greece: The scientist's "facilitating" role, Dr Ioannis Karachristos, Principal Researcher, Hellenic Folklore Research Centre - Academy of Athens 

  • The ritual of Vlachikos Gamos as element of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and its dances, Dr Andromachi Oikonomou, Research Director, Acting Director, Hellenic Folklore Research Centre - Academy of Athens

  • Working with communities: The case of Apollona (Phodes) and the inscription of “Camuseles” ritual in the national inventory, Dr Maria Androulaki, Research Director, Hellenic Folklore Research Centre - Academy of Athens 

  • Communities in interaction. The heritagization of tradition. Dance Rituals of the Kozani Region, Dr Zoi N. Margari, Principal Researcher, Hellenic Folklore Research Centre - Academy of Athens 

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-12:00 Dance knowledge. From dance ethnography to a dance class

Moderators: Vasileios Karfis, Zoi N. Margari, Konstantinos Dimopoulos

  • Dance knowledge-From dance ethnography to a dance class. The case of the School of Physical Education and Sport Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Dr Maria I. Koutsouba, Professor, School of Physical Education and Sport Science National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

12:00-12:15 Coffee Break 

12:15-13:15 Dance knowledge - From dance ethnography to a dance class | Participatory dance events: A workshop on Greek Traditional Dance. Part I, coordinated by Maria I. Koutsouba

13:15-15:00 Lunch Break

15:00-16:00 Dance knowledge - From dance ethnography to a dance class

  • Participatory dance events: a workshop on Greek Traditional Dance. Part II, coordinated by Dr Vasileios Karfis, Academic Special Teaching Staff, School of Physical Education and Sport Science National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Scientific Collaborator of the Dance ICH Programme of the Academy of Athens

16:00-16:15 Coffee Break

16:15-17:15 Dance knowledge. From dance ethnography to dance classes and ICH management projects

  • The ‘Sergiani’ dance event from Megala Kalyvia, Trikala, Thessaly. Its implementation to the case of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Thoughts and concerns, Dr Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Assistant Professor, School of Physical Education and Sport Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Scientific Collaborator of the Dance ICH Programme of the Academy of Athens

  • ‘Dance in the Square’ project in the urban context of Athens: could it comprise a good safeguarding practice of Intangible Cultural Heritage according to UNESCO's Convention?, Chariton A. Charitonidis, PhD candidate in "Dance Studies", School of Physical Education and Sport Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Scientific Collaborator of the Dance ICH Programme of the Academy of Athens

17:15-17:30 Coffee Break

17:30-18:30 Dance knowledge. From dance ethnography to dance classes and ICH inventories

Moderators: Chariton A. Charitonidis, Zoi N. Margari, Georgios Tserpes

  • Dance and music as intangible cultural goods. The case of Thracian community of Nea Vyssa, Dr Eleni Filippidou, Postgraduate Researcher, School of Physical Education and Sport Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Member of the Collaborating Educational Staff of the Hellenic Open University, Lecturer at the French College of Greece 'IdEF'-University Sorbonne Paris Nord, Scientific Collaborator of the Dance ICH Programme of the Academy of Athens

    Members of the heritage communities of a. the Cultural Association of Nea Vyssa (Thrace) of Athens and b. members of the Thracian Tradition of Μelissia Artistic Lab will participate in the presentation

  • The dance ‘Balos’ from Kythnos (Thermia) as a practice of intangible cultural heritage: narratives, research and performance, Dr. Georgios K. Fountzoulas,Postgraduate Researcher, School of Physical Education and Sport Science, National and Kapodistrian University

    Members of the Association of Friends of the Archaeological Museum of Kythnos and other heritage communities of the island will participate in the presentation

Day 3: Saturday, 16th December 2023


Programme:

10:00-11:00 Dance as living ICH of the 21st century. From dance ethnography to a dance class: Dance knowledge, research, transmission, presentation & the role of dance academics

Moderators: Maria I. Koutsouba, Zoi N. Margari, Siri Mæland

  • Contentious Culture: Dance, Heritage Practice and Educational Dilemmas - A Case Study from England, Keynote Speech by Dr Theresa Jill Buckland, Emeritus Professor of Dance History and Ethnography at the University of Roehampton (London), Fellow of the British Academy

  • Dance knowledge making across cultural borders: in the field and in the classroom, Keynote Speech by Dr Georgiana Sarah Gore, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology of dance and bodily practices at the University of Clermont Auvergne

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15:13:00 Sustainable models of interaction between dance ethnography research and dance educational programmes

Moderators: Theresa Jill Buckland, Georgiana Sarah Gore, Maria Androulaki

  • Researcher fieldwork as a source for dance teaching, Dr Rebeka Kunej, Assistant Professor, Research Associate, Institute of Ethnomusicology, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

  • From Dance ethnography to Dance education – Norway, Dr Siri Mæland, Head of the Dansespor Program, The Norwegian Centre for Traditional Music and Dance

  • A sustainable new design of a permanent dance program at the Norwegian Centre for Traditional Music and Dance?, Tone Erlien Myrvold, Project Leader of the ‘Dance-ICH’ Programme, Norwegian Centre for Traditional Music and Dance - Birgit Haukås, Project Leader of the Dansespor Program, Norwegian Centre for Traditional Music and Dance

  • Heritage and policies: surveying the sustainability of dance heritage at Dansstorm, Debora Plouy, Cultural anthropologist, Centre for Music and Performing Arts Heritage in Flanders

13:00-13:15 Coffee Break

13:15-14:15 Round Table - Conclusions

  • Zoi N. Margari, Maria I. Koutsouba, Theresa Jill Buckland, Georgiana Sarah Gore, Rebeka Kunej, Siri Mæland, Tone Erlien Myrvold

 

During the Workshop e-poster presentations, dedicated to the ethnographic findings of the Hellenic core heritage community study-applicated research, will take place.

The event will be filmed for documentation purposes.

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