Интеграция в Европа или отдалечаване от нея посредством традиционни танци?
Integration into or alienation from Europe through traditional dances

Summary/Abstract: The text deals, first of all, with the image of Bulgaria and of the Bulgarians in West Europe burdened, on the one hand, with the stereotypes of a Balkan nation and on the other, of a country of the former Eastern Bloc. Calling to emancipation from both the feeling of inferiority and boastfulness, Gergana Panova-Tekath analyses traditional dancing as „dancing in Bulgarian fashion“ and the communicative potentials of the art known as „Bulgarian folk dances“. She deals with the images of the body and the ambition for continuity in terms of cultural philosophy and semiotics, treating the subject of survival as an idea of reality and necessity. The group of authentic folklore, the club, the company, the seminar of Bulgarian dances in the West, the Balkan-Beat disco, etc., are seen in contemporary intercultural and interactive context. In the end she adduces as an example a World Dance Day, which bring to the fore the problems of the stage legitimating and the ambiguousness of the identity policies. Exceptional excludes and for this reason the circle of „Bulgarian folk dances“ as a symbolic form can and has to open up for the sake of communication and integration.

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