Anca Giurcescu and Ethnochoreology

Mehmet Öcal ÖZBİLGİN

Anca Giurcescu and Ethnochoreology

Book > Vocational Book · 2017

Vocational Book, 2017, Ege Üniversitesi basımevi, Other, Turkey, İzmir, International

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ANCA GIURCHESCU AND ETHNOCOREOLOGY IntroductionWhen Anca Giurchescu went to dance elsewhere in 2015, we decided to create this compilation in order to pay a little bit of debt due to his contributions to both the field of ethnocoreology and to us as an individual. We know that this translation book, which we think will enrich the limited Turkish literature in the field of ethnochoreology, will also make Anca happy. Rodica Maria Anca GIURCHESCU (1930-2015) is an internationally renowned dance scholar from Romania. After his education life in Transylvania, he moved to the capital Bucharest in 1949 to study rhythmic dance. In 1953, he started working as a researcher in the Department of Choeology at the Ethnography and Folklore Institute. Although his work was prevented from time to time by the political attitude of the period, he worked as a chief researcher in his department from 1963 until 1979. During his time at the Institute of Ethnography and Folklore, he contributed to the development of Romanian folk dance organizations and their studies with more than 240 field studies. In his extensive research he explored how traditional dance was manipulated through symbols to legitimize political power from an inside perspective. Anca Giurchescu asylum from Romania in 1979 to Denmark. In this country where she stayed with the political refugee status, she actively carried out her dance activities. After the fall of the communist regime, he returned to his homeland in 1989 to continue his research on the ritual dance of C?lus (which he started in 1968), a healing ritual in the dance tradition of the Roma minority. However, until his departure on April 4, 2015, Giurchescu was an active member of many scientific organizations, including the ICTM International Traditional Music Council, the American-Romanian Academy and the Nordic Folk Dance Research Association, and served as the President of the Ethnochology Working Group. It has undertaken. He has many publications in French, German, Romanian, English and Danish languages. Europe as well as Brazil, Canada, Tunisia, Turkey and so on. He has lectured at American universities such as Harvard, Cornell, Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, UCLA and Stanford. Due to his outstanding services in the field of science, he has received many scientific scholarships and awards in 2009, as well as the "honorary doctor" title he received from London Roehampton University. In order to grasp the diversity of scientific contributions made by Anca Giurchescu to the field of ethnocoreology, it is necessary to classify his studies under the titles. - Establishing the theoretical and methodological foundations for structural analysis of the relationship between dance - music - text and expression. - Examining the importance and function of dance as a non-verbal communication tool in dance practices, ritual, secular and social contexts. - In-depth study (in terms of structure, function, symbolic, transformation) of relationships between the therapeutic Cure ritual and other similar European men's dances. - Dance and minorities: studies on the use of dance as a cultural / ethnic identity marker. (Via Romanian Gypsies and Serbia, Ulah minorities in Denmark) - Use of folk dance in political discourse (via the sample of communist Romania). - Transformation Process of Dance; interaction between local and local, between traditional and urban culture. - Creating a rich collection as a result of many field research, theoretical studies and documents collected (movies / videos, dance screenings, interviews, surveys, etc.) on Romania, Denmark and Serbia (Vlach minorities) This book is among the contributors Anca oldest and most desired Öztürkmen that the preamble is not only the relationship between them and Anca's life, personality and work reveals the bond with both Turkey. When choosing translation texts, we paid attention to diversification from their English articles and papers on the subjects he studied most. In this regard, Mehmet Öcal Özbilgin and Murat Sönmez published their article titled “Theory and methods in dance studies: a European approach to the holistic study of dance” published in ICTM Yearbook for Traditional Music, Volume 23, in 1991, in 1992, by the ICTM Ethnochology Working Group in Nafplion. Mehmet Öcal Özbilgin and Gül Kaplan Ekemen, presented at the Symposium titled “Dance and His Socio-Political Opinion” in Yearbook for Traditional Music, published in 2001, were presented at the ICTM 20th Etnochoreology Symposium held in 1998 and towards the Folklore of Boğaziçi University. Berna Kurt's article titled “Interpreting a Dancer's Discourses on Improvisation” published in the special issue of the magazine, and her article titled “Dance Aesthetics in Traditional Romanian Societies” published in ICTM in 2003, Yearbook for Traditional Music, Volume 35 Belma Oğul Kurtişoğlu, ICTM

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