Daniela Stavělová
Daniela Stavělová
QUALIFICATIONS
2006 doc., Dance Art, Academy of Performing Arts, Prague
1995 CSc., Ph.D., Institute of Ethnology of the CAS
1979 Mgr. Ethnology – History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
PRINCIPAL RESEARCH INTERESTS
Ethnochoreology, Dance Anthropology; Interpretation of Historical Records of Dance; Dance Performativity in Historical, Ideological and Political Contexts; Dance as a Cultural Process and a Special Mode of Social Activity; New Contexts of Traditional Music and Dance Culture: Heritization, Revivalism, Festivalization, Tourism and Commodification
RESEARCH PROFILE
The focus of my interest is to trace the meaning of music and dance expression in different cultural, social, political and ideological contexts. I am concerned with the performativity of dance in its symbolic and cognitive dimensions; the purpose of this perspective is to perceive this expression as a process that only acquires meaning in contextual frames.
Ethnochoreology enables both historical and anthropological approaches, combined with the study of phenomena of human action within the framework of interactional processes, and I perceive dance primarily as a cultural text. It is seen as a cultural process and studied in the context of a live performance within the socio-cultural system of which it is a product. There is an integration of all the dimensions that define dance, and it is primarily the socio-communicative meaning of dance that imbues this process with the quality of a text. The dance text is not a mere choreographic structure, but an overall function that links certain social interactions and certain structures of dance elements in accordance with a given type of communication. In this way, dance is perceived as a social activity and becomes a key to understanding the processes involved in the formation of identities, its affective dimension contributes to the sharing of emotion or ideas.
Books
2021 Tíha a beztíže folkloru. Folklorní hnutí druhé poloviny 20. století [The Weight and
Weightlessness of Folklore. Folklore Revival Movement of the Second Half of the 20th
Century in Czech Lands]. Praha: Academia. (co-authors Černíčková, Kateřina –
Gremlicová, Dorota – Kratochvíl, Matěj – Pavlicová, Martina – Skořepová, Zita –
Uhlíková, Lucie – Vaněk, Miroslav –Vejvoda, Zdeněk – Zdrálek, Vít).
2014 Velké dějiny zemí Koruny české. Tematická řada, Lidová kultura [History of the
Lands of the Bohemian Crown. Serie of Themes, Folk Culture]. Praha: Paseka. (co-authors Tyllner, Lubomír – Bahenský, František – Holubová, Markéta – Kafka,
Luboš – Maur, Eduard – Navrátilová, Alexandra – Otčenášek, Jaroslav – Petráňová,
Lydia – Woitsch, Jiří)
2008 Červená růžičko, proč se nerozvíjíš. Doudlebská masopustní koleda: tanec, identita,
status a integrace. Multimediální studie [Red Rose, Why Don´t You Thrive. A
carnival carol from Doudleby: dance, identity, status and integration. Multimedia
study]. Praha: EÚ AV ČR, v. v. i.
1996 Lidové tance v guberniálním sběru z roku 1819 [Folk dances in the 1819 gubernial
collection]. Praha: ARTAMA.
Edited Volumes and Special Issues
2018 Folklore Revival Movements in Europe post-1950. Shifting Contexts and Perspectives. Praha: EÚ AV ČR, v. v. i., 2018. (co-editor Buckland, Theresa Jill)
2012 Dance, Gender, and Meanings. Contemporising Traditional Dance. Proceedings of the 26th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology 2010 Třešť, Czech Republic. Prague: Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Institut of Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences, v. v. i. of the Czech Republic. (co-editors Dunin, Elsie Ivancich – Gremlicová, Dorota)
2008 Prostředí tance. Hranice identity a jejich překračování [The environment of the dance. Identity boundaries and their crossing]. NIPOS a EÚ AV ČR, v. v. i., Praha (co-editors Traxler, Jiří – Vejvoda, Zdeněk)
2004 Tanec – záznam, analýza, pojmy. Sborník z 2. etnochoreologického semináře - Praha 14.-15. března 2002 [The Dance - Records, Analysis, Terms. Proceedings of the 2nd Ethnochoreological Seminar – Prague, March 14–15, 2002]. Praha: EÚ AV ČR. (co-editors Traxler, Jiří – Vejvoda, Zdeněk)
Journal Articles
2023 Why Do We Have So Many Carnivals in Town Today? An Event Between Ritual, Politics, and Festival. Slovenský národopis 71(4): 342–364.
2023 Hidden in Folklore: The Past and Present of the Revival Movement in Post-Socialist Countries. Traditiones 52(2): 21–46.
2021 Kolik stojí pravý český tanec? Autenticita na prodej [How Much Is the Czech Dance? Authenticity for Sale]. Národopisná revue 31(4): 287–298. (co-author Kolačkovská, Laura)
2017 Zítra se bude tančit všude, aneb jak jsme se protancovali ke svobodě. Dichotomie tzv. folklorního hnutí druhé poloviny 20. století [Tomorrow, People Will Be Dancing Everywhere or How Did We Dance Towards Freedom. Dichotomy of the Folklore Revival Movement of the Second Half of the 20th Century]. Český lid 104(4): 411–432.
2016 Inventing the carnival: contemporary festivities, tradition and imaginaries. Český lid 103(4): 537–567. (co-author Kratochvíl, Matěj)
2015 The Ride of the Kings in Vlčnov from the Perspective of Contemporary Research. Národopisná revue 25(5): 47–64.
2015 The Polka versus the Waltz. Czech National Dances in the Political Context of the Nineteenth Century. Traditiones 44(2): 91–112.
2014 Tanec v pamětech, denících a memoárové literatuře: Interpretační dilema [Dance in Diaries, Memories, and Memoirs: a Dilemma of Interpretation]. Národopisná revue 24(1): 91–100.
2012 Tanec v literární tvorbě Boženy Němcové: fikce, nebo fakta? [Dance in the literary work of Božena Němcová: fiction or facts?]. Český lid 99(3): 259–279.
2010 K některým otázkám etnochoreologického studia: tanec, gender a politika [Some Issues of Ethnochoreological Study: Dance, Gender and Politics]. Národopisná revue 20(4): 239–244.
2006 Polka jako český národní symbol [Polka as a Czech National Symbol]. Český lid 93(1): 3–26.
2003 Jak se dnes v Čechách tancuje. Otázky taneční antropologie [How They Dance in Bohemia Today. Some Questions of Dance Anthropology]. Národopisná revue 13(2): 67–69.
Book Chapters
2022 Maud Karpeles: Her Contribution to Dance Research and to the Council. In: Pettan, Swanibor – Ceribašič, Naila – Niles, Don. (eds.): Celebrating the International Council for Traditional Music. Reflections on the First Seven Decades. Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana Press and International Council for Traditional Music, pp. 20–32. (co-authors Foley, Catherine. E. – Buckland, Theresa. J. – Dunin, Elsie, Ivancich – Mellish, Liz – Mollenhauer, Jeanette – Schofield, Derek – Smith, Stephanie – Stavělová, Daniela – Opetcheska-Tatarchevska, Ivonna)
2022 The Polka and Czech National Awareness. In: Leersen, Jeep.: Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe. Vol. 2. Second, revised edition. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 812–813.
2022 Dance as a commodity: The Czech Folklore Show. In: von Bibra Wharton, Anne – Urbanavičiene, Dalia (eds.): Dance and Economy, Dance and Transmission. Vilnius: ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology and Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, pp. 15–23.
2021 Power of Representations: Stereotypification and Selectivity in Dance Performances.
In: Apjok, Vivien – Povedák, Kinga – Szőnyi, Vivien – Varga, Sándor (eds.): Dance, Age and Politics. Hungary: Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Szeged, Hungarian Association for Ethnochoreology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute for Musicology, pp. 315–324.
2020 The Polka as a Czech National Symbol. In: Bakka, Egil – Buckland, Theresa Jill – Saarikoski, Helena – von Bibra Wharton, Anne (eds.): Waltzing through Europe. Attitudes towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth Century. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, pp. 107–147.
2017 Traditional Rural Festivity in an Urban Space and Dichotomy of Public and Private: The Music and Dance Repertory Process. Negotiating the Place for a Dance. In: Stepputat, Kendra (ed.): Dance, Senses, Urban Contexts. Graz, Austria: ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Institute of Ethnomusicology, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, pp. 222–229.
2015 Narratives as a Tool for Understanding the Inner Side of Dance in a Socio-Cultural and Political Context. In: Dunin, Elsie Ivancich (ed.): Dance, Narratives, Heritage. Zagreb, Croatia: ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Institut of Ethnology and Folklore Research, pp. 198–203.
2014 Traditional festivities in Bohemia: Continuity and Revitalisation. In: Dunin, Elsie – Foley, Catherine (eds.) Dance, place, festival: 27th Symposium of the International Council for Traditional Music study Group on Ethnochoreology. Limerick: The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, pp. 278–286.
2014 The oldest records of Czech traditional dances: Rethinking dancescape. In: Fiskvik, Anne Margrete Fiskvik – Stranden, Marit (eds.): (Re)Searching the Field. Festschrift in Honour of Egil Bakka. Trondheim: Fagbokforlaget, pp. 189–200.
2012 Traditional Dancing on the Stage: Seeking Authenticity. In: Dunin, Elsie Iváncich – Stavělová, Daniela – Gremlicová, Dorota (eds.): Dance, Gender, and Meanings. Contemporizing Traditional Dance. Prague: Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Institute of Ethnology of the Academy of Science, v. v. i. of the Czech Republic, pp. 241–248.
2012 Word and Image: Representing Dance in a Symbolic and Cultural-Historical Framework. In: Dunin, Elsie Ivancich – Giurchescu, Anca – Könczei, Csilla (eds.): From Field to Text. Dance and Space. Proceedings for the 24th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology. ISPMN (the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities: Cluj-Napoca, pp. 91–94.
2011 Edice a reedice záznamů lidového tance v českých zemích [Edition and reedition of the traditional dance records in czech lands]. In: Uhlíková, Lucie a kol.: Hudební a taneční folklor v ediční praxi. Praha: EÚ AV ČR, v. v. i., pp. 117–140.
2008 Kultura lidových slavností: tajemství tance/ The Culture of Folk Festivities: The Mystery of Dance. In: Rousová, Andrea (ed.): Tance slavnosti 16. – 18. století/Dance and Festivities of the 16th – 18th Centuries. Praha: Národní galerie, pp. 81–89.
2008 Koncept národního tance: obkročák, polka, sousedská [Concept of National Dance: Obkročák, Polka, Sousedská]. In: Stavělová, Daniela – Traxler, Jiří – Vejvoda, Zdeněk (eds.): Prostředí tance: hranice identity a jejich překračování. Praha: NIPOS a EÚ AV ČR, v. v. i., pp. 157–187.
2008 K některým pojmům v souvislosti s Úmluvou UNESCO o ochraně nehmotného kulturního dědictví [On some terms in connection with the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage]. In: Blahůšek, Jan – Jančář, Josef (eds): Etnologie – současnost a terminologické otazníky. Strážnice: NÚLK, pp. 85–92.
2007 Literární dílo jako pramen pro studium lidové taneční kultury [Fiction as a source for the study of folk dance culture]. In: Gremlicová, Dorota (ed.): Stopy tance. Taneční prameny a jejich interpretace. Praha NAMU, s. 14–23.
2007 Hesla z oboru lidový tanec [Encyclopedic entries on folk dance]. In: Brouček, Stanislav – Jeřábek, Richard (eds): Lidová kultura. Národopisná encyklopedie Čech, Moravy a Slezska A-N 1, O-Ž 2. Praha: EÚ AV ČR, v. v. i. v Praze a Ústav evropské etnologie FF MU v Brně v nakl. Mladá Fronta, pp. 43, 46, 140–141, 174–175, 177, 195–196, 208–209, 223–224, 291–292, 344–345, 384–385, 392–393, 413, 445, 500–502, 513, 529, 546, 546–547, 549, 561, 653, 770–771, 842, 842–843, 908–909, 970, 1030, 1040–1041, 1043–1044, 1045–1046, 1047–1048, 1048, 1155.
2005 The Dancing People – Status, Identity, Integrity. In: Dunin, Elsie Ivancich – von Bibra Wharton, Anne – Felföldi, Lázsló (eds.): Dance end Society. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, European Folklore Institute, pp. 41–52.
2001 Folklorism in a Changing Society. In: Dunin, Elsie, Ivancich – Zebec, Tvrtko (eds.): Sword Dances and related Calendrical Dance Events; Revival: Reconstruction, Revitalization. Zagreb: Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, pp. 258–261.
Past Projects and Grants
2022–2024 Folklore revival in post-socialist countries: politics, memory, heritization and sustainability. GACR-ARRS, Weave Lead Agency Project (GF22-31474K). Principal Investigator of the Czech Team.
2017–2019 Tíha a beztíže folkloru: Folklorní hnutí druhé poloviny 20. století v českých zemích [Weight and Weightlessness of the Folklore: The Folklore Movement of the Second Half of the 20th Century in Czech Lands]. Czech Science Foundation Standard Project (GA17-26672S). Principal Investigator.
Editorial Work
Ongoing Český lid/Czech Ethnological Journal, Editorial Board
Národopisná revue/The Journal of Ethnology, Editorial Board
Board Memberships
Ongoing Chair of ICTMD Sub-Study Group for Field Research Theory and Methods
Member of the Branch Council of HAMU Prague
Member of the Branch Council of ZČU in Pilsen
Member of the Branch Council of FHS Charles University in Prague
Member of the Expert Council NIPOS-ARTAMA of the Ministry of Culture of
the Czech Republic Prague
Member of the Czech UNESCO Committee for assessing nominations for the
UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage
2014–2024 Member of the Council for Cooperation with Universities of the CAS, v. v. i.
2017–2021 Chair of the Council of the Institute of Ethnology of the CAS, v. v. i.
2014–2022 Elected representative in the Academic Assembly of the CAS, v. v. i.
2013–2019 Member of the Commission of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic for the award of the Minister of Culture Award in the field of traditional folk culture.
External Reviewing
Project Evaluation:
2000–2010 Project proposal evaluation GA AV ČR
2004–2013 Project proposal evaluation Department of Regional and National Culture of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic
Doctoral Thesis Examination: Academy of Performing Arts Prague; Faculty of Humanities,
Charles University; Université Clermont Auvergne; Norwegian University of Sciences and Technology
Teaching Experience
Ongoing Senior Lecturer in Dance Anthropology and Ethnochoreology, Department of
Dance Studies, Academy of Performing Arts Prague
Associated Partner in the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Diploma (EMJMD)
programme Choreomundus – International Master in Dance Knowledge,
Practice and Heritage coordinated by the University of Clermont Auvergne
(UCA) in collaboration with the Norwegian University of Science and
Technology (NTNU), the University of Roehampton, London, UK (UR), and
the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece
2004–2013 Lecturer in Dance Anthropology, Erasmus Intensive Programme, Dance
Analysis for New Ethnochoreologists and Movement at Past and Present,
Norwegian University for Science and Technology, Trondheim.
Conference and Workshop Organisation
2022 December, 2–4. Society Dancing, Meeting of the ICTM Sub–Study Group on Round Dances –19th Century Derived Couple Dances. Praha, Vila Lanna and Institute of Ethnology of the CAS.
2022 November, 23. Music, Dance, and Urban Anthropology. Prague, Institute of Ethnology of the CAS. (co-organisers Skořepová, Zita – Kratochvíl, Matěj – Vejvoda, Zdeněk)
2022 October, 4–5. David Rothenberg on Music and Nature. Can music make a difference to nature? Faculty of Humanities, Charles University and Institute of Ethnology of the CAS, Prague. (co-organisers Skořepová, Zita – Kratochvíl, Matěj – Vejvoda, Zdeněk)
2017 October, 17–19. Folklore Revival Movement of the Second Half of the 20th Century. International Symposium, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. (co-organisers Gremlicová, Dorota – Kratochvíl, Matěj – Vejvoda, Zdeněk)
2011 May, 27–30. Ride of the Kings as a Cultural Heritage. International Joint Field
Research and Workshop ICTM Sub-Study Group for Fieldwork Theory and Methods, Vlčnov. (co-organiser Černíčková Kateřina NIPOS-ARTAMA)
2010 July, 19–25. Dance, Gender and Meanings. Contemporising Traditional Dance. 26th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology. Třešť.
2003 March, 14–15. Dance: Record, Analysis, Terms. The 2nd Seminar on Ethnochoreology Prague, Institute of Ethnology of the CAS.
2001 February, 2. On Perspectives of Czech Ethnochoreology. Seminar, Institute of
Ethnology of the CAS, Prague.
1996 August, 5–11. Children and Traditional Dancing. Dance and Style. 19th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology. Třešť.
Public Outreach
Ongoing Choreographic cooperation with both Czech and international folklore ensembles, opera and theatre scene
Since 1998 Core teacher, Škola folklorních tradic [The School of Folklore Traditions]
Since 2002 Head of Evaluation Committee, Dance Workshop: National Folklore Ensemble Choreography Review
