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Finnish Dancers' Attitudes Toward Folk, Competitive Ballroom, Ballet, and Modern Dance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2014

Pipsa Nieminen  and
Väinö Varstala
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One would like to think that dancers hold positive attitudes toward many forms of dance, not just their own. Maybe this is a reason why researchers have not been interested in studying the attitudes of dancers toward dance. However, there have always been conflicts (e.g., which teachers, dancers, dance schools, dance genres should be supported by grants and awards) among dancers in Finland, thus Finnish dance-policy groups have held discussions about improving cooperation both among dancers representing different dance forms and between dancers and artists in other fields. As a result the Dance Council of Finland was founded in 1980 as an organization with board members from various art dance organizations, folk dance organizations and the Finnish Dance Sport Association. The aims of the Dance Council were, among others, to increase cohesion among dancers and to improve the public perception, appreciation and funding of dance. The Dance Council initiated a dance magazine, Tanssi (Dance). However, according to Laine (1991), who was chair of the Dance Council and director of the Finnish National Ballet, the process was problematic and slow.

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Dance Research Journal , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , Fall 1999 , pp. 63 - 79
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Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 1999

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