Wandering about dance

Colloquium of the institue of dance science of HAMU

Every once a while HAMU will organize one or two day meeting of students and dance scientist to present their ongoing research and to meet and talk.

I was not able to contribute this time, but I was there. Here are some highlights:

Petra Dotlačilová spoke about polemics between Angiolini and Noverre. It was interesting to hear about other point of view (other than Noverre’s which is well known). If you never read Noverre’s Letters sur la Dance then do so.

Kateřina Černíčková had sobering remarks about dance culture in rural areas. It looks like original village folk dance is finally dead in Czech Republic.

Libuše Hronková had perhaps strangest talk making connection between dance improvisation and cognitive linguistic. I say wicked. it was genuinely interesting but as a theme for diploma thesis very dangerous. It is very easy to make mistakes in metodology and very, very carefull presentation is required.