Catherine - documentary read 1

Dance and dancing are considered important aspects of Greece's cultural heritage. They continue to thrive and contribute to social formations and expressions in both rural and urban areas. Institutionalization plays a vital role in revitalizing dance culture, with dance academics merging ethnography, teaching, and preservation. The School of Physical Education and Sports Science at the National and Capodistrian University of Athens is an example of a community that promotes Greek traditional dance. They collaborate with traditional and contemporary dance communities to ensure the sustainable management of dance practices. Several examples are given, highlighting the role of core community members in studying and preserving dance heritage in different settings. The examples range from rural areas to urban environments, showcasing the diversity of Greek dance traditions. Hello, 3-2-1, 3-2-1, 3-2-1, 3-2-1, hello Zoe and Thanos, this is Catherine, I'm going to go through with a first read and see how we get on, I can also do a quicker read and a slower read, so this is my first try, okay, here we go, Greece, dance and dancing as intangible cultural heritage. Traditional dance and dancing practices are important aspects of Greece's living cultural heritage. Despite the social transformations and socio-economic changes that have taken place over the years, dance and dancing remain vibrant in Greece as they contribute to the reformation and re-expression of many diverse social formations. Thus, both in rural local communities and in large urban centres, ritual, ceremonial, festive, improvisational, presentational and educational dance events take place and constitute fields of social encounter, communication and expression. A decisive factor in re-energising this complex structure of dance culture, which makes dance and dancing an integral part of everyday life in Greece, is its institutionalisation. In this context, the role of dance academics that interact between different and various settings, merging dance and... I'm going to take that paragraph again. A decisive factor in re-energising this complex structure of dance culture, which makes dance and dancing an integral part of everyday life in Greece, is its institutionalisation. In this context, the role of dance academics that interact between different and various settings, merging dance ethnography, teaching, presentation and representation, preservation and promotion of dance and dancing is essential. Prominent among these are the roles of young academic communities of dance heritage, which, although emerging in the university environment, traverse and connect through their actions in local, supralocal, translocal, diasporic, urban, hybrid and imaginary dance heritage communities. A characteristic example of this action is the core community of the students specialising or specialised on Greek traditional dance at the School of Physical Education and Sports Science, SPES, of the National and Capodistrian University of Athens, NKUA. These scholars constitute a supralocal heritage community, contributing to the reformation and interaction among the above-mentioned dance heritage communities, acting as catalysts for dance as living intangible cultural heritage, ICH, in the postmodern Greek world. Within a framework of actions stemming from mastering the knowledge of dance and dancing, while combining ethnographic research with experiential knowledge, and through dance practices that interconnect different generations, dance scholars systematically engage with issues of resilience and viability of Greek traditional dance. While collaborating on the one hand with traditional dance communities in rural areas, but also with new contemporary ones in urban settings, and on the other while promoting the creation of novel, translocal and or hybrid ones, they ensure the participatory co-creational sustainable management of dance and dancing practices as living cultural heritage of the Greek tradition. Characteristic examples follow, where the role of the members of the core heritage community is pivotal. Starting with the dance heritage of Kythnos, Thermia, that through the initiatives of the local community and the ethnographic research of the core community member, Dr Georgios K. Phounehoulas, was studied and nominated in the Greek National Intangible Cultural Heritage Inventory. Our second example is the dance heritage of Nea Vyssa, that through the coordination of Dr Eleni Philippifou, a member of the local community and the case study core one, interact for, sorry I'm going to do that again. Our second example is the dance heritage of Nea Vyssa, that through the coordination of Dr Eleni Philippifou, a member of the local community and the case study core one, interconnects Thracian and urban social groups. With this perspective, our third example is the urban dance heritage community of the dance club Horepedia, coordinated by the core community members Dr Vassilios Karfis and Myrto Karfi, that underline the transgenerational and radiational experience of post-modern dance social practices. Finally, revealing is the example of the hybrid dance heritage community of the Dance in the Square project, as introduced recently by the core community member Hariton A. Haritonidis, that creates new dance spaces in the urban environment of the municipality. I'm going to take that again. Finally, revealing is the example of the hybrid dance heritage community of the Dance in the Square project, as introduced recently by the core community member Hariton A. Haritonidis, that creates new dance spaces in the urban environment of the municipality of Hellinikon Argyropolis. Okay, I'm going to send you that first, but we're going to get this better. Okay, hang on.