MARTOR 30 / 2025

Bodies in Motion: Dance, Movement, Gesture
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.57225/martor.2025

Coordinators: Theresa J. Buckland, Sándor Varga, Corina Iosif, János Fügedi

Contents • Sommaire

Theresa J. BUCKLAND, Sándor VARGA, Corina IOSIF
Bodies in Motion: Dance, Movement, Gesture

I. Dance and Cultural Practices

Csilla KÖNCZEI
Can We Find Reason in Dance? Embodied Thought: Exploring Analogies between Dance and Speech Articulation

Marisol LIMÓN SILICÉO, Juan Felipe MIRANDA MEDINA
Dance Syntax in Practice: The San Felipe Dance Group Performs the Cumbia Cienaguera

Raymundo Ruiz GONZÁLEZ
That Which Remains. The Role of Fonadan Notation in the Establishment of the Mexican Field of Folkloric Dance and its Terminology

Bethany WHITESIDE 
Dancing over Crossed Swords: An Ethnographic Case Study on Competitive Solo Highland Dancing

II. Different Bodies in Motion

Georgiana VLAHBEI
Pamporea: Emergence of a New Vernacular. Dance and Identity Performing with Aromanians (Vlachs) from Romania

Márton HAJNAL
Disability and Dance. Possible Theoretical Approaches to Analyse CandoCo’s First Guest Performance in Hungary

Stefana POP CURȘEU
Le théâtre d’ombres : danse magique de l’imagination. Des traditions orientales au théâtre roumain contemporain

III. Dialogues and Images

Laura JIGA ILIESCU, Silvia CĂLIN
On Being Available. Conversation with Silvia Călin

Beáta GATTI, Sándor VARGA
The Devil’s Images: Dance Scenes in Naïve Paintings

IV. Book Reviews

János Fügedi. 2023. Signs of Dance. Laban Kinetography for Traditional Dancers. Solo and Circle Dances. Budapest: Institute for Musicology, Research Centre for the Humanities, L’Harmattan. 540 pages.
Reviewed by Judy VAN ZILE

Kendra Stepputat. 2024. Tango Dance and Music: A Choreomusical Exploration of Tango Argentino (1st ed.). London: Routledge. 280 pages. 45 B/W Illustrations.
Reviewed by Jonathan SKINNER

Debarshi Prasad Nath, Ralph Buck, and Barbara Snook, eds.  2024. Reflections of Dance along the Brahmaputra: Celebrating Dance in North East India. London and New York: Routledge. 290 pages.
Reviewed by Debanjali BISWAS

Michael Heaney. 2023. The Ancient Morris Dance. Oxford: Archcaeopress Publishing Ltd. 536 pages; 94 figures
Reviewed by Isabela BOTEZATU

Varga Sándor. 2023. Változások egy mezőségi falu tradicionális tánckultúrájában [Transformations in the Traditional Dance Culture of a Village in the Mezőség Region]. Budapest, Cluj-Napoca: Hagyományok Háza and Kriza János Néprajzi Társaság. 294 pages.
Reviewed by Viven APJOK