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A Twenty-First Century Resurrection: The Potresujka, the Croatian Polka Tremblante

Zebec (Croatia) surveys and contextualises the place of round dances, and particularly the Polka, in the twentieth-century Croatia. He shows how the folk-dance movement largely ignored or even rejected the round dances as new and foreign. He then portrays the revival of a ‘shaking’ kind of Polka that has a history in the region, but only rose in popularity as late as the twenty-first century. The peculiar aspect of the revival is that it seems to have arisen independently of the folk-dance movement, among the ‘dancing crowds’.

potresujka ; dance ; ethnochoreology ; dance research ; couple dances ; 19th-21st Centrury

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