За флуидността преди пандемията. Нови размишления върху моделите на танцуване по български
Of Pre-pandemic Fluidity: New Ruminations on Dancing the Bulgarian Way

Summary/Abstract: The article revises the onomastic systematisation of “dancing the Bulgarian way” to announce the emergence of two new paradigms: virtual and mediatorial. They provide certain opportunities for the theoretical macro level (as well as other levels) of the phenomenon to be fathomed in triads. The six dancing Bulgarian-style models have been identified as pro- and counter cultures with ecological orientations which utilize, verify, develop and ennoble the concept of Bulgarianness in terms of its specifics. Besides, each of them is a translation by means of which the Bulgarian traditional repertoire connects the “foreigner” in the figure of the dancer both externally and internally, ensuring continuity between the generations of a nationality by bridging gaps between different countries and political systems and establishing imagined diasporas. The newly coined terms introduced here refer to the fluidity of the phenomenon and its creative function. The territorialisation of subjectivity and the striving for communality have been presented not only as particular political missions, but also as a response to the philosophical idea of freedom as a verdict. Dancing the Bulgarian way builds modern workshops of identity and heterotopoi of acculturation. Thus, it establishes a variety of fluid minorities (in the field of inter- and trans-cultural communication) whereas in terms of intra-cultural communication, this style establishes dancing ecospaces. Another article will deal with the power of non-verbal communication, the authentic pliancy of the phenomenon and the specificities of memory by describing and analysing the virtual model in times of a pandemic.

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