Naslov
Economic aspects of Ballroom Dance in Croatia

Autori
Katarinčić, Ivana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
31st Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology / - , 2021, 18-18

Skup
31st Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology

Mjesto i datum
Klaipėda, Litva, 12.07.2021. - 18.07.2021

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
economy ; ballroom dance ; sport dance ; social dance

Sažetak
The economic operations of making, accumulating and achieving money are not always transparent and direct. Intermediary economic ways of its actualization and its circulation are often discarded as non-existent, non-profitable and at the burden of the immediate ones. Science, art, culture as well as dance are part of the activities weighted by signs of no profitability. On the other hand, economic and financial aspects of dance can be dismissed like nothing more/else than corruption, sale and marketing of art. Using the example of the ballroom dance community (Sport Dance) and dancers of Dance Sport Federation in Croatia, I will present the economic aspect of having or earning the money among dancers, which is not to get wealthy, but to assure possibility and freedom of dancing in the sport dance community. In doing so, I will compare Sport Dance to the urban social dances in Croatia and pinpoint their differences and interconnections in economic and other segments. Using primarily autoethnography as a method of research, in which personal experiences are included, as well as classical anthropological method of interviewing, I will try to present a system of economic circulation in ballroom dancing and the importance of the financial background most ballroom dancers of Croatian Dance Sport Federation in Croatia need to face. The system of education in Sport (ballroom) Dance is conditioned by and oriented towards the market. Sport Dance and its specialized ways of instruction and education will be presented as an example of distribution and commercialization of dance knowledge, which are conditioned by a free market that favours greater possibility of encountering the so-called compatible sides (parties). I will also try to present in what way ballroom dancers contribute to a comprehensive economy, doing it indirectly and unintentionally.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

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