Dance, Age and Politics: 30th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Szeged, Macaristan, 28 Temmuz - 03 Ağustos 2018, ss.203-212
This article intends to analyze the place of dance within different identity
construction processes. On the basis of fieldwork, it focuses on the experiences
and practices of two marginalized communities in Turkey. While
the first one is on the ritual movements of an unorthodox religious community
(Alevi), the other one is on the dances that appear in the annual
festivals of the African Turks. Although both groups are marginalized,
their historical experiences, and mostly related to that, the meanings
that dances/movements have acquired in their identity processes, are
distinct. After a brief historical review, the findings of the two fieldworks
will be analyzed comparatively.