“The street is my name”: Lgbtqi+ and women in rap and urban dance scenes of Greece (2025)

Becoming and vibrating: From becoming-woman to the nomadic subjects in musical creativity (The example of atmospheric black metal genre)

8th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe , 2022

This presentation aims to elaborate on the potential of sounds and vibrations within the context of Deleuzian-Guattarian understanding of becoming and Braidotti‘s nomadic subject. This philosophical position and conceptual route emphasize the non-hegemonic, dynamic, fluid, transgressing, and transformative potential of creativity. The DeleuzianGuattarian perspective of ―the privilege of the ear‖ will be further argued, extending the discussion to the process of creativity and the process of becoming a vibrant nomadic subject throughout the former. In other words, I propose that sound, and thus music, has a very special and crucial place in terms of the capacity of an artistic creation that is transformative and encompassing. Finally, I argue that the awareness of such a capacity would open grounds of not getting lost in the era of crises, flourishing the ways for coexisting. This presentation aims to contribute to the theme of 'gender‘ from the posthumanist and new materialist viewpoints, especially by tackling the concept of "becoming-woman" and "the nomad".

Gökçe Asena Altınbay, Turkey: Gender Inequality in the Organization of Turkish Folk Dances in Session Titled: Staging Gender in Folk Dance (Chair: Daniela Ivanova-Nyberg instead of Arzu Öztürkmen)

Eighth Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe 10-13 May, 2022 Istanbul, Turkey Gender, Virtual Communications, Legacies of Empires PROGRAMME and ABSTRACTS BOOKLET, 2022

Eighth Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe 10-13 May 2022 Istanbul, Turkey Gender, Virtual Communications, Legacies of Empires PROGRAMME and ABSTRACTS BOOKLET

Entangled Cultural Memories in Southeastern Europe: Cacak Kolo

ICTM SEE 8th Symposium Programme Abstracts , 2022

Analysing being a male dancer in a patriarchal society by ethnochoreohistory: the example of the Eastern Black Sea region

The Eastern Black Sea region is a place where cultural identities are very dominant in the social life of Turkey. In this region there are especially some unwritten rules for dance that are difficult to observe from outside. Patriarchal manners are applied by society to most of the cultural eleme..., 2024

The Eastern Black Sea region is a place where cultural identities are very dominant in the social life of Turkey. In this region there are especially some unwritten rules for dance that are difficult to observe from outside. Patriarchal manners are applied by society to most of the cultural elements of the Black Sea region. In this study, the experiences of male dancers who were encultured in the eastern Black Sea region and chose dancing as a profession are examined. The research considers the 30-year period from the 1990s to the present in the terms of ethnochoreohistory. While the question of ‘what kind of situations do they face?’ shapes the research, the question of ‘then what happens?’ tries to explain the male dancers of the Eastern Black Sea region. All these modest enlightenments are framed by ethnochoreohistory which is a brand-new proposed term for the history of dance.

What did we learn? Why does it matter? Observations on outcomes of teaching and learning Bulgarian dance via Zoom in the period 2020–2022

MUSIC and DANCE in SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Gender, Virtual Communications and Legacies of Empires: Eighth Symposium of the ICTMD Study Group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe, 2024

This study addresses aspects of teaching and learning Bulgarian dance via Zoom under pandemic restrictions. Interpretations are made based on the outcomes of surveys conducted with Bulgarians and non-Bulgarians, teachers, and dancers living in Bulgaria and the United States. The research raises these questions: what did instructors learn about their profession (or passionate hobby) through their efforts to teach Bulgarian dance via Zoom? What did dancers learn? What aspects of Bulgarian dance and dancing became (more) prominent for the various parties involved? What happened on the creative side in using the advantage of technology? The survey responses revealed ‘hidden’, new, or taken-for-granted aspects of Bulgarian dance and dancing, teaching and learning, and the nature of our under-pandemic experiences as human beings. Finally, the analytical overview offers opinions on why it was necessary to reflect on Zoom dancing in 2020–2022. Keywords: Bulgarian dance; teaching; learning; Zoom; human experience.

The reflections of socio-economic conditions in the end of the 19th century on Western Anatolian music and dance: The example of Kerimoğlu Zeybek

Gender, Virtual Communications and Legacies of Empires: Eighth Symposium of the ICTMD Study Group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe, 2024

Robot kolo as one of the forms of contemporary čoček in dance practice of Southeastern Serbia

Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe: Gender, Virtual Communications and Legacies of Empires: Eight Symposium of the ICTMD Study Group for Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe, 2024

The centuries-old presence of the Ottomans in the Balkans influenced continuous transformation of autochthonous cultural practices intensely contributing to their immanent hybridity. This process continues despite reshaping of ethnically and nationally specific cultural traditions and the redrawing of state borders after the end of the Ottoman Empire in this peninsula in 1912. Among various cultural elements in which Ottoman legacy can be recognized is a traditional musical and dance genre čoček, which was brought to the Balkans by the Turks and accepted primarily by Roma. Čoček is still performed in many areas of the Balkans in its various forms, one of which is robot kolo. Based on the analysis of video clips of robot kolo we analyse and discuss structural-formal and performing features of kinetics and music of this linked chain dance in 4/4 rhythm in contemporary dance practice of Serbs and Roma.

Proceedings: Seventh Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe Editors: Liz MELLISH, Nick GREEN, Belma OĞUL Editorial Assistance Gökçe Asena ALTINBAY, Emrah ERGENE

Seventh Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe, 2022

For English, please scroll down ICTM Güneydoğu Avrupa Müzik ve Dans Çalışma Grubu'nun yedinci sempozyumu, Covid-19 salgını nedeniyle bir yıl aradan sonra ICTM Türkiye milli komitesi tarafından 23 Nisan – 25 Nisan 2021 tarihleri arasında çevrimiçi olarak düzenlendi. Program üç temaya odaklandı: 1. Karadeniz'in kültürel havzasında müzik ve dans 2. Direnç, bütünleşme ve ayrılık olarak dans ve müzik 3. Performans mekanları ve alanları – bunların nasıl inşa edildiği (Eserin 5. sayfasındaki "Giriş" başlığından alıntılanmıştır) The seventh symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe was organised online between 23 April – 25 April 2021 by the ICTM Turkey national committee after a delay of one year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The programme focused on three themes: 1. Music and dance in the cultural basin of the Black Sea 2. Dance and music as resistance, integration and separation 3. Performance places and spaces – how these are constructed (Cited from title "Introduction" on page 5 within the book)

"On Critical Ecology as a Methodological Approach"7th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe, Panel: "Methodological approaches for the musical culture and sounding/moving nature"

2021

Dance as an ecosystem and within the ecosystem

7 th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe, 2021

Ecochoreology; ecokineme; choreoscape