Federal Association of Austrian Folk Dance

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Federal Association of Austrian Folk Dance
(BAG)
legal form Association
( ZVR : 968693997)
founding 1960 (1956)
Seat Vienna ( ⊙ coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 50.4 ″  N , 16 ° 18 ′ 3.6 ″  E )
purpose Umbrella organization , care of the Austrian folk dance movement
Action space Austria
Chair Herbert Zotti
Members 9 regional associations
Website volkstanz.at

The Federal Association of Austrian Folk Dance  (BAG) is a professional association for folk dance , which, as the umbrella organization of the Austrian folk dance movement , has set itself the goal of providing organizational and technical support for groups and people in this field in Austria and South Tyrol .

history

The BAG was founded in 1956 by Hermann Derschmidt , Karl Horak , Franz Koschier , Herbert Lager , Hermann Lein as initiator, Franz Vogl and Richard Wolfram , and registered as an association in 1960.

At the initiative and application of the working group, the Austrian Folk Dance Movement was included in the list of intangible cultural heritage in Austria by the Austrian Commission for UNESCO in 2011.

Area of ​​responsibility

The federal working group deals with the documentation, dissemination, transmission and development of Austrian folk dance. All federal states of Austria and South Tyrol are represented on its board. In the individual federal states and regions there are numerous clubs and other communities that organize dance evenings, dance rehearsals, folk dance festivals and training courses.

Research and documentation

The working group continuously carries out projects which, on the one hand, aim to come to terms with the history of folk dance and, on the other hand, the creative transmission of folk dance, especially to young people. In this context, advanced training courses for dance leaders are also offered. The waltz and the polka are an indispensable basis of Austrian folk dances. They build a bridge to the social dances that are otherwise cultivated in Austria. To give an example: The Vienna Kathrein Dance, which takes place every year just before the beginning of Advent, with more than 800 participants regularly, with its subtitle “The Ball of Austrian Dances” creates a connection to the city's ball culture.

In addition to folk dance, the association also deals with other forms of dance (e.g. children's dance , youth dance , community dance , historical dance, etc.) within dance culture, as well as with the folk- cultural environment ( folk music , folk song , costume , folk poetry , customs ).

Club work

The Federal Working Group organizes annual work seminars with practical dance, singing and music-making training, as well as “model events”, such as federal folk dance meetings and Alpine folk dance meetings at intervals of several years.

Basic dances

In 1956 the BAG selected some dances as Austrian basic dances in order to enable dancers from different Austrian federal states to dance together . These basic dances have since become the basis of folk dance training throughout Austria.

Publications

  • Happy circle. magazine

Sub-organizations and cooperation

  • Burgenland: Burgenland Folk Dance Association
  • Carinthia: Regional Working Group Folk Dance Carinthia
  • Lower Austria: Lower Austrian Working Group for Folk Dance
  • Upper Austria: Upper Austria Regional Working Group - OÖ Volksliedwerk
  • Salzburg: Salzburg State Working Group for Folk Dance
  • Styria: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Volkstanz Steiermark
  • Tyrol: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Volkstanz Tirol
  • Vorarlberg: Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Vorarlberg
  • Vienna: Working group of Viennese folk dance groups
  • South Tyrol: Working group folk dance in South Tyrol

There is cooperation, for example, with the Lower Austria Folk Culture Network of the Kultur.Region.Niederösterreich , the organization of the state government entrusted by the Lower Austrian Culture Promotion Act 1996.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Imprint. volkstanz.at
  2. ↑ a b c Austrian folk dance movement. Austrian Commission for UNESCO: List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Austria. immaterielleskulturerbe.unesco.at (accessed March 31, 2016).
  3. ↑ Happy Circle. volkstanz.at
  4. ↑ Arbeitsgemeinschaft Volkstanz Steiermark , accessed on January 5, 2019.
  5. ^ Folk culture of Lower Austria: About us. (accessed March 30, 2016).