Preliminary programme of the international conference 

In this link you can find the detailed information about program and abstracts.

Wednesday 21 May 2025

11:30 - 12:30 a.m.

Dr. Andriy Nahachewsky, University of Alberta, Canada (Emeritus)

Dance and Semi-Tangible Cultural Heritage

Raluca Ioana Andrei, Simona Malearov 
Facilitating Dance Activities in an Ethnographic Museum. Case Study: Lads Group from Rucăr Village, Brașov County

Vesna Bajić Stojiljković 
Sustainability and Resilience of Dance Practices through Different Social and Stage Performances of the Serbian Community in Slovenia

Chi-Fang Chao  
Sustaining Dance as the Intangible Cultural Heritage: An Okinawan Example in Japan

Chariton Charitonidis  
Converting Dances (as ICH) to Dancing: The Case of the “Dance in the Square” Project in the Municipality of Hellinikon-Argyroupolis (Greece)

Eszter Csonka-Takács, Fruzsina Arkhely 
Dance Communities and Museum Representation in the Practice of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Konstantinos Dimopoulos        
Why Safeguarding a Dead Dance and Dance Ritual? The Case of the Sergiani Dance in Megala Kalyvia, Trikala, Greece

Georgios Fountzoulas  
Challenging Sustainability of Dance as ICH in Greece: The Case of “Balos” Dance from Kythnos (Thermia) Island

Maria Magdalena Garbagnoli  
Embodying Heritage: The Vital Contribution of Basque Dance to Heritage and Museum Spaces

Nóra Kovács    
Authenticity, Ethnicity, Ownership? The Peculiar Dynamics of Translocal Social Dance Communities of ICH in a Globalised World and the Example of “Tango Argentino”

Drago Kunej
The Importance of Music and Musicians for the Sustainability and Resilience of Folk Dance

Rebeka Kunej    
Dancing in Horjul in the 21st Century as Dance Heritage or Dance Tradition?

Amandine Leporc          
Les Sauts Béarnais, a Lever for Cultural and Local Action

Maria Małanicz-Przybylska       
Bringing Traditional Dance Back into Social Practice

Zoi N. Margari, Maria Koutsouba        Sustainability and Resilience of Traditional Dance and Dancing as Intangible Cultural Heritage in Greece: Ethnographic Insights and Perspectives

Siri Mæland     
Sustainability of Participatory Dance Events – Revisiting the Importance of Human Relations and Interaction Patterns

Tanya Merchant          
Queer and Trans Inclusivity Efforts as Sustainability Strategies in Urban Contradance

Tone Myrvold, Celina Gallo, Tone Fegran, Eirik Fagerslett
Facilitating a Process for Co-Creating Action Points in Fulfilling Needs and Wishes for the Dancing Future in Trondheim

Mats Nilsson   
Can Dancing Be Sustainable and an ICH?

Dóra Pál-Kovács          
The Sustainability of a Local Dance Culture through the Example of the Sárközi Wedding

Zuzana Palanová         
“There Are a Couple of Reasons Why We Dance Less Nowadays”: Springboards of the Sustainable Environment for Dance Repertoire in Village Folklore Groups in the Liptov Region

Adela Pukl, Anja Jerin   
Music and Dance at the Intersection of the UNESCO Paradigm and Museology

Miloš Rašić      
“Krivo Kolo”: Dance, Nostalgia and Sustainability in Transnational Space

Tomaž Simetinger         
Developing Support to a Sustainable Community of Dancers in Folk Dance Ensemble

Kendra Stepputat, Magdalena Maria Wolf, Bernadette Planner, Caroline Krasser          
Sustainable Network Structures in Styrian Folkdance Member Recruitment

Aristoula Toli  
Transmitting Tradition: Α Dance Community between Epirus and Athens

Anja Verderber
Polka and Its Sustainability in the Slovenian Context: The Emergence and Current Popularity of This Dance-Music Genre

Mieke Witkamp 
Empowering Heritage Communities: Rethinking Institutional Support for Sustainable Folkdance

Mantha Ziva    
Greek Traditional Dance and Museums in the Hellenic Region