Hermanno Huffzigerio sudarytas Rytų Prūsijos šokių leidinys "Der Tanzkreis. Alte und neue Vokstänze aus Ostpreußen"
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2008 |
Straipsnio objektas - Hermanno Huffzigerio leidinys „Šokių ratelis. Seni ir nauji šokiai iš Rytų Prūsijos" (Der Tanzkreis. Alte und neue Vokstänze aus Ostpreußen). Tikslas - pristatyti H. Huffzigerio surinktų ir išleistų XIX a. pabaigos - XX a. pradžios Rytų Prūsijos liaudies šokių leidinį „Šokių ratelis. Seni ir nauji šokiai iš Rytų Prūsijos", aptarti jo pasirodymo aplinkybes ir priežastis, apžvelgti leidinio sandarą, šokių užrašymo vietovių, muzikos ir šokių paskirties ypatumus. Metodai - aprašomasis, lyginamasis, kartografavimo bei apibendrinimo. Išvada - H. Huffzigerio šokių leidinys yra svarbus ne tik Rytų Prūsijos etninio paveldo tyrinėtojams, bet ir lietuvininkų šokio tyrėjams bei choreografams kūrėjams.
The paper presents the dance collection Dance circle: old and new dances from East Prussia (Der Tanzkreis. Alte und nette Vokstänze ans Ostpreußen) compiled by Hermann Huffziger and published in Leipzig in 1930, second and revised edition in Frankfurt am Main, in 1953. The publication of the book Dance circle: old and new dances from East Prussia should be seen as a result of the activity of folk dance companies that began to be set up in such cities of Eastern Prussia as Gumbinnen, Insterburg, and Tilsit in the 1920s. Another precondition for such a publication was the personal activity of Hermann Huffziger and other enthusiasts of ethnic culture. Their search for dances to put on their programme prompted them to collect and disseminate some already vanishing choreographic heritage of the end of the 19th -- beginning of the 20th centuries. Two volumes of the dance collection Dance circle: old and new dances from East Prussia compiled by Hermann Huffziger feature 38 old and 21 new Eastern Prussian dances. Hermann Huffziger spent much time communicating with the people of the region, collected and transcribed many folk dances and was thus a witness and expert in the living East Prussian dance tradition. The precission with which he described characteristics and the historical context of Eastern Prussian dances testifies to that. Commentaries feature some of his and other scholars' theoretical speculations on the specificity of Eastern Prussian dances of the end of the 19th beginning of the 20th centuries and ethnographic as well as folkloric knowledge that remain topical even now. Hermann Huffziger's dance collection Dance Circle is one of the first publications in Eastern Prussia of the 1920s in which dance metrics are provided, that is information on its providers, the area in which the dance was practiced and the time when it was recorded. All featured dance descriptions are printed in German. in Gothic script. Some lyrics of dances are written in the German Samogittan dialect. Every folk dance comes with the score and description. At the end, a glossary of dance steps, embraces and dance figures is provided. This helps to renconstruct any dance easily and precisely. The importance of Hermann Huffziger's dance collection Der Tanzkreis. Alte und neue Vokstänze aus Ostpreußen to Lithuanian folklore and ethnic choreographic research lies in that it contains unique information about now extinct examples of ethnic choreography of the 19th -- beginning of the 20th centuries in Eastern Prussia.