Table of Contents

Acknowledgments      vii
Preface      1

1. Richard George “Dick” Crum: A Life
ROBERT HENRY LEIBMAN      5
2. Introduction: Choreographing the Balkans
ANTHONY SHAY      12

Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Performance
3. Transnational ToVek: Gender and the Politics of Balkan Romani Dance
CAROL SILVERMAN      37
4. Dance and Place: The Case of a Roma Community in Northern Greece
CHRISTOS PAPAKOSTAS      69
5. Dance as Propaganda: The Metaxas Regime’s Stadium Ceremonies, 1937–1940
IRENE LOUTZAKI      89
6. Nationalism and Scholarship in Transylvanian Ethnochoreology
COLIN QUIGLEY      116
7. Bulgarian Dance Culture: From Censorship to Chalga
ERICA NIELSEN      130
8. Clapping for Serbs: Nationalism and Performance in
Bosnia and Herzegovina
LYNN D. MANERS      145
9. Choreographing the Other: The Serbian State Folk Dance Ensemble, Gypsies, Muslims, and Albanians
ANTHONY SHAY      161

Balkan Dance in America
10. “Inside, Outside, Upside-Down”: The Role of Mainstream Society Participants in the Ethnic Dance Movement
ROBIN J. EVANCHUK      179
11. Balkan Tradition, American Alternative: Dance, Community, and the People of the Pines
JUNE ADLER VAIL      195

Morphology of Balkan Dance and Music
12. Hai la Joc! Periodicity at Play in Romanian Dance Music
JAMIE L. WEBSTER      213
13. Dvoransko Kolo: From the 1840s to the Twentieth Century
NANCY LEE CHALFA RUYTER      239
14. Dance Structure and Its Application to the Understanding of Macedonian “Cross” Dances
ROBERT HENRY LEIBMAN      250

About the Contributors      271
Index      275