The Sword Dance Documentation Project aims to illuminate the history of sword dancing Europe and North America, document the current state of sword dance today…
While classical anthropology prescribed a role for the fieldworker that removed them from goings-on of the “objects” of their study in the name of objectivity,…
This document is a short accompaniment and commentary on my website sword-dance.com. The site is about European hilt-and-point sword dance and will eventually serve as…
After a brief jaunt through Croatia and Bosnia I returned back to Germany to the town of Balingen, just south of Stuttgart, for an International Sword…
This is a video made by the TV station from the town of Traunstein with some footage of the dance and even a brief interview…
I rehearsed with the Traunstein Schwerttanz group every Friday evening for the month of March. We would meet and run through the dance once or twice before…
My first front page article! Moving up in the world! This has never occurred before in the long history of Traunstein sword dance: The appearance…
U.S. Researcher as a Guest Dancer Sword Dance: A Yank Swings his Sword The sword dance is a unique spectacle in Traunstein, whose origins date…
For the first time in the history of the dance we have a guest dancer in our midst. Jeremy Carter-Gordon studied Ethnochoreology at Bard Collage, Annandale-on-Hudson,…
On the boat from Split to Lastovo I encountered the least D.A.R.E-friendly emergency instructions card that I have ever come across. In other news, the boat…