Събрано и разбрано. За автентичността, старото и новото през призмата на работата ми в танцовия архив
Collected and Comprehended. About Authenticity, the Old and the New in the Ligth of my Work in the Dance Archives

Summary/Abstract: Authenticity nowadays is a modem concept, considered to be the basis of morality. And while in the West authenticity is increasingly drawing near to the pure expressionism of individualism and the most universal expression of the sense of the personal, in our country it preserves in one way or another its relation with the traditional values of the National. A particularly interesting opportunity for analysis and comparison of this relation is offered by the traditional dance practice in Bulgaria. Contemporary dancing of the so called folk dances presents culture not only in its role of a life world (Edmunt Husserl), but as a monument, a message, a show as well. Here we can find the points of contact of the individualistic parameters of identity with an old regional collective definiteness, of the mobile with the firm in culture. But what is happening and what do we gain from the dance video recording? On the one hand, by visualizing the body the video record may claim the closest approaching to that authenticity (of folklore as well), which reveals the individual performer as a “me -here and now” and which makes him/her a part of mobile culture. This is the only way to capture the moment. On the other hand, the two­ dimensional vision distances and creates audience: the dance appears fixed like a written language, which can be read rationally, and now it is not ‘’you”, but “it” (Martin Buber) for you. There is difference not only between watching the video record and dancing together on the village square, but also between watching the video cassette and a stage performance of the dance. In my opinion it is found in the relation between a document and a monument. The video archives illustrating the body movement offer in the sphere of ethno­ choreology the perpetuation of authenticity and the modifications of collective identity in Bulgaria. The presence of an old tradition and the continuous updating of the information systems as well as the rich palette of the surrounding theoretical fields make the Institute of Art Studies a unique territory for the richest dance archives in Bulgaria.

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