Стратегии на съвременната интердисциплинарност в областта на хуманитаристиката в Германия през погледа на етнохореолога
An Ethno-choreologist’s Perspective of Contemporary Interdisciplinarity in Human Sciences in Germany

Summary/Abstract: The admission of Bulgaria into the European Union has lead to the intensification of scientific contacts (communications) with the West. In this paper, the author shares her observations on the preeminent tendencies in the area of Human Sciences in the German-speaking countries and discovers in them many new venues for interdisciplinary research in the field of dancing. Ethno- choreology (Bulgarian in particular) is predominantly viewed as an interdisciplinary scientific domain „a priori“. Departing from this basis, the author offers new ideas for a serious assimilation of Charles Sanders Peirse’s „sign“ categories, consistent application of Ernst Cassirer’s cultural philosophy, enrichment with the culturologically oriented semiotics of Jurii M. Lotman, elaboration of new terms for the analysis of non-verbal communication, which conform to the Sistemic and Interactive Social theory, and an elaboration on Helmuth Plessner’s und Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of the body. In the author’s view, the achievements of modern German research in the field of „historical memory“, authenticity, ethnocentrism and hybridity are very important for the development of Bulgarian ethnochoreology. The article cites the names of numerous Western researchers, and for the purposes of a new type of dance analysis, discusses and fine tunes such terms as „culture“ and „living worlds“, „communication“ and „authenticity“, „comprehending“ and „understanding“, „solid“ and „liquid“ (related to festive and mundane dance events), „body“ and „telos“. As an example of interdisciplinary methodology in dance analysis, the author refers to the term „semantic star“, elaborated in her Doctoral Thesis, according to which every dance event can be determined (fixed) with the help of Rudolf von Laban’s kinetographic (Labannotation) parameters, defined as an image within the table of semiotic signs and interpreted in the spirit of public sciences as an multilayered process of identification. Thus, dance analysis can be helpful in the process of performing an in-depth diagnostication of time and space, social interactions and the public fabric. Further on in the article, the author identifies three topical thematic fields of Western humanistics and contends that Bulgarian ethno- choreology can make a contribution to each and every one of them. Concluding the article, the author offers a definition of „interdisciplinarity“ as a type of communication and a hypothesis for the link between interdisciplinarity and interculturality, which is extremely potent.

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