The melodic beat - digging into music-dance relations in Swedish Folk.

• With this presentation my intention is to give some short introductory notes on parts of the world of Swedish folk music and dance where I have been lucky to be involved  - as musician, teacher of folk music and researcher working with folk music and dance. As a folk musician playing the fiddle, I often find myself in collaborations with folk dancers and pedagogues, in pedagogical and artistic contexts, working with amateurs and professionals, performing in stage performance or as a traditional dance musician. I teach Folk Music Theory at the Royal College of Music (KMH) in Stockholm and I am in the early stage of pursuing a PhD in mediated communication at Royal technical Institute KTH in Stockholm focusing on Folk music theory and the interaction between music and dance. First some information on the higher educations in folk music and folk dance and in particular on the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Then some reference to my own dance-music research and finally some notes on folk dance on stage in Sweden.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Konst -- Musik (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts -- Music (hsv//eng)

Keyword

folk music

folk dance

Motion capture

Publication and Content Type

vet (subject category)

kon (subject category)