Танцът като израз на идентичност и интерактивна игра
Dance as an Expression of Identity and Interactive Game

Summary/Abstract: As a longstanding researcher of the practice dancing in Bulgarian and different motivations of dancing people in Bulgaria and other countries of Central and Western Europe, the author logically arrives to the problem of identity crisis after the Second World War. According to her, it would be a very simplified explanation of the differences in Europe. Comprehended by foreigners inadequately, the dancing in Bulgarian is not only a need for identification with a local or national tradition, but a purely choreographic argumentation in favor of high aesthetic qualities of the dance folklore in Bulgaria. That is why Gergana Panova-Tekat offers an interdisciplinary look at the aspects and the layers of the context, and their respective dance imagery. Through the prism of a widespread dance phenomenon (like that of the Bulgarian traditional dancing), the present text examines one form of constantly changing human modifications, in which one can not only detect different types of identity, cultural level and social policy, but also reach valuable for the development of humanity conclusions. In this context, the author puts up for discussion the dance as a shift in the pregnant profiles of the culture (after Kasirer). The author also is presenting some of her previous comparative studies and thoughts about dance as an expression of identity, connecting them to a new hypothesis. It states that dancing in Bulgarian is an alternative version of a virtual game. Such definition of the phenomenon is highlighting with a new force the capabilities of one’s own body as a creation of history.

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