By courtesy of Soros Foundation
Preface
EUROPEAN
DANCE RESEARCH INFORMATION DIRECTORY
Attention, please!
Consultants
and Correspondents are kindly requested to check their lists for updating. The
Editors feel that data more than three years old do not serve the purpose of
EUDRID and ask the affected Consultants and Correspodents to revise their
lists. If you do not feel like carrying on we thank you for your co-operation
and shall try to engage other experts for the purpose. Updated lists are
expected to reach us as soon as possible.
The Editors
EUDRID is the first English-language
Directory of European institutions and individuals engaged in dance research,
history, theory, documentation, i.e. collecting information to restore the past
for the present and to record the present for the future in the field of
dancing.
The
section on institutions includes libraries, archives, filmotčques and
videotčques etc. where dance is recorded in any shape or form. The section on
individuals includes researchers, documentalists who have made substantial
contributions to dance history and theory. The material consists of more than
200 institutions and some 500 individuals in 37 countries of Europe.
The
project was started in the early 90-ies as a joint venture by Prof. Bengt
Häger, Head of Unesco's Carina Ari Memorial Dance Library, Stockholm, Honorary
President of the International Dance Council (CID-Unesco), Paris, and by Dr.
Gedeon P. Dienes, President of the Hungarian Society for Choreology, Budapest,
Director for Research and Communication of CID-Unesco, Paris.
After
the publication of the data in 1992 it became evident that the material would
be worth putting on internet. With the help of Soros Foundation the information
went on internet in 1996 where it is accessible in the Hungarian home page as
follows:
In
1997 two further sections were added, one on dance periodicals and another
on dance information centres in countries where these exist. At this stage the
Folk Dance Department, Institute for Musicology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Budapest, greatly contributed to updating, thanks to the good offices of László
Felföldi, Head of Department.
As
from 1997 members of the Committee for Scientific Research of the World Dance
Alliance - Europe have made significant contributions to updating this
important data base. Beside keeping it on internet, it is planned to be
published in book form, enlarged and updated, which is sometimes more handy on
account of certain difficulties in getting into overburdened Internet.
By
now EUDRID contains information about dance research and documentation in more
than thirty countries of Europe with some 200 institutions and close to 500
individuals engaged in the profession.
The
contributors to EUDRID are well known experts familiar with the situation in their
countries. They have been receiving no remuneration for their extensive work,
nor have the institutions or individuals paid for being included. The project
has essentially been financed from private sources and could only be carried on
thanks to the unselfish work of our consultants and correspondents. If and when
published, the updating contributors are meant to be entitled to free copies.
Budapest,
October 2000
Editor:
Dr. Gedeon P. Dienes
Levendula u. 12, H-1124
Budapest
Tel/Fax (361) 356-4209,
E-mail: dienesg@alarmix.hu
Editor’s Note
Lists
featuring institutions and individuals of any sphere of culture cannot be
complete on account of the constant changes occurring in these fields. Any
deadline represents a temporary status quo. For the field of dance research -
this is October 2000.
Our
contributors have collected relevant data from 43 countries in the form of
nearly nine-huhdred items, including some 250 institutions, 550 individuals
engaged in dance research and documentation and close to 100 dance periodicals,
most of them with updated particulars.
It
is our pleasant duty to thank our consultants and correspondents for the
unselfish, invaluable help offered in compiling, checking and updating the list
of their countries. Special credit is due to dr. Andrea Amort (Austria), Mr
Aimé de Ligničre (Belgium), Mrs Elizabeth Souritz (Commonwealth of Independent
States), Prof. Vladimir Vasut (Czech Republic), Heili Einasto (Estonia), Ms
Jaana Parviainen (Finland), Prof. Marie-Françoise Christout (France), Dr.
Frank-Manuel Peter (Germany), Prof. Alkis Raftis (Greece), Mr. Giora Manor
(Israel), Ms Claudia Celi (Italy), Prof. Irena Turska(Poland), Prof. Wanda
Ribeiro da Silva (Portugal), Ms Alica Pastorová (Slovakia), Ms Neja Kos
(Slovenia), Prof. Estrella Casero-Garcia (Spain), Ms Gun Román (Sweden), Ms
Ursula Pellaton (Switzerland), Prof. Ivor Guest and Ms Jane Pritchard (United
Kingdom) for their efficient co-operation in collecting information.
Budapest,
October 2001
The Editor
The countries now follow in
alphabetic order.
(all documents in MS
Word 97 format)
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