CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. Irene Loutzaki

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Music Studies
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Institutional address:
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Faculty of Music Studies
School of Philosophy
University Campus, Zografou 15784
Athens, Greece
Tel.: +30-210-7277935
Email: iloutzaki@music.uoa.gr

Qualifications details:
1989 Ph.D. - The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland
Dept of Social Anthropology and Ethnomusicology
Dissertation title: Dance as a cultural message. A study of dance style among the
refugees from Northern Thrace in Neo Monastiri, Micro Monastiri, and Aeginion
1984 M.A. - The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland
Department of Social Anthropology (Ethnomusicology)
Special Interest on the Anthropology of Dance
1979 Certificate - Folkwang Hochschule Essen, W.Germany
Dance Notation (Kinetography Laban)

Areas of research:
Anthropology of dance, Dance in Greece, Dance and Politics, Social history of dance and
dance studies in Greece, style & structure, dance notation.

International expertise:
2003, 2004, 2005 University of Dragvoll – Dance Department (Trondheim, Norway).
Intensive Program in Ethnochoreology and Dance Anthropology
No: 29704-IC-1-2003-1-NO-ERASMUS-IPUC.

Teaching:
Her main teaching lies in the area of the anthropology of dance, dance in transnational
contexts; cross-cultural concepts of classicism; dance and gender.

Research expertise:
The anthropology of dance, Greek dance, Modern Dance in Greece, identity and dance, dance
in transnational world, dance and gender, Style and Structure, Dance aesthetics, Dance and
Politics.

Selected publications:

Books:
(2004) Dance in Modern Times - Ethnography. Αrcheologia and Technes September v. 92.
Avdikos E. Loutzaki I. Papakostas Ch. (eds.)
(2004) Choreftika Eteroklita. Athens: Ellinika Grammata – Lyceum Club of Greek Women,
Drama.
(1992) Ethnographic 8. Dance in Greece. Nafplion: Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation
(Bilingual ed. Greek-English).
(1987) Marriage as a Dance Event. The case of the refugee from Eastern Rumelia at Micro
Monastiri, Macedonia. Nafplion: Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation (Bilingual ed. Greek-
English).
(1985) The traditional dance in Greece. Thessaloniki: Filoxenia '85. (Bilingual ed. Greek-
English).

Articles:
(2008) «Dance as propaganda. The Metaxas Regime Stadium Ceremonies 1937-1940», in
Anthony Shay (ed.) Choreographing the Balkans: Essay on Balkan Dance and Music. USA:
Mac Farland & Co., Inc. (in preparation).
(2008) «Nationalist Greece: dance on canvas as invented tradition», Barbara Sparti, Adrienne
Kaeppler, Elsie Dunin, Judy van Zile and Nance Heller (επιµ.) Imaging Dance. Visual
representations of dancers and dancing. (in preparation).
2006 “Des Grecs: Articulating Greekness in Greek Syrtós Performance, Grenoble, France».
Proceedings.
2004 «Introduction» in Avdikos E. Loutzaki I. Papakostas Ch. (eds) Choreftika Eteroklita
[Dance Heterogeneous]. Athens: Ellinika Grammata – Lyceum Club of Greek Women,
Drama, pp.13-38.
2004 «Understanding Style in Monastiri Dance, Greece». Dr Adrienne Kaeppler (ed.). Dance
Structures: Perspectives on the Analysis of Dance. (in preparation).

Film:
2006 «My place in the dance». Documentary film. Script-Research: Marianna Economou-
Irene Loutzaki. Production: Greek Center of Cinema - ΕRΤ 1- Mega Channel – Yli Finland –
Cinergon 2006. First price Rhodos Ecofilms Festival 2007.

Professional organization memberships:

ICKL-International Council of Kinetography Laban, London
CORD-The Congress on research in Dance, New York
ICTM-International Council of Traditional Music, New York
Liaison Officer since 2002
ICOM-International Council of Museums, France
Hellenic National Committee of ICOM, Athens