Csilla KÖNCZEI

senior lecturer

Research domains:

Biography

I started as a musician, then I began to dance, at the university I studied linguistics, in the 80s, being unemployed, I had been wandering through the country as a freelance ethnographer, and what I liked the most at the change of the regime from 89, was making videos. All these fields have remained incorporated in me, and they reappear and mix with each other in my educational, research and art activities. In 1995 I won the III. price of the “Internationaler Videokunstpreis” in Karlsruhe with my experimental video, “An Abstract Knowledge”, which deals with the tappings made by the “securitate“. My courses on visual communication and documentary are between my favorites ones even today. My first loves, dance and a rite, called “borica“, have followed me all my life. A wrote my doctoral dessertation on the rite “borica“, which was published in 2009. My theoretical preoccupations are directed mostly towards the analogies existing between dance and language. I am looking for possible answers to questions like: what would be the nonverbal meaning of dance, which kind of dances can be analysed ont he base of linguistic models, and how far these analogies go. My social and political sensitivities are manifested mainly in works like the book entitled ”Ilonka néni”, the threelingual life history of an elderly Roma woman, or in those studies and courses of mine, which focus on the social inequalities reinforced by the representations of the powerful, or on the marginalization of gender and ethnic minorities, and finally in my”Securitate-blog”, in which I have published and interpreted the files of my father and of mine, from the archives of the former secret police. My artistic needs have been basically fulfilled by the independent cultural center called Tranzit House, which I founded in 1997.

Selected publications

  1. 2017                Valóságképkészítés mint társadalmi interakció. [Shooting non-fiction as social interaction] In: Aranyhíd. Tanulmányok Keszeg Vilmos tiszteletére, Kriza János Néprajzi Társaság – BBTE Magyar Néprajz és Antropológia Intézet – Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület, Editor: Zsolt Albert Jakab – Vajda András, pag. 845-854.
  2. 2016                Dajkám jó hajdútáncos volt” Maszkulinitások és feminitások a hagyományos tánckultúrában. [“My nanny was a good heyduck dancer” masculinities and feminities in traditional dance] In: Színház és maszkulinitás
  3. 2015                A ‘60-as – ‘80-as évek magyar néptánckutatásának képe a cigány kultúráról. Beszédmódok és osztályozási rendszerek. [The Representation of Roma Culture in the Hungarian Folk Dance Research of the ‘60s – ‘80s. Discourses and Classificatory Systems] In: Aranykapu. Tanulmányok Pozsony Ferenc tiszteletére. Eds. Zsolt Albert Jakab – István Kinda, Kriza János Néprajzi Társaság – Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum – Székely Nemzeti Múzeum, Kolozsvár (Cluj), 829-839.
  4. 2014                Egy táncelméleti modell felé. Gondolatok a tánc és nyelv közötti analógiákról és különbségekről. [Towards a theoretical model of dance. Thoughts about analogies and differences between dance and verbal language] In: Az erdéyi magyar táncművészet és tánctudomány az ezredfordulón. II. Ed. by: Könczei Csongor, ISPMN, Cluj-Napoca, 33-56. / 2015 Spre un model teoretic al dansului. Gânduri despre analogii și diferențe dintre dans și limbă. In: Coreografia și etnocoreologia maghiară din Transilvania în mileniul trei. II. Ed. by: Könczei Csongor, ISPMN, Cluj-Napoca, 33-58.
  5. 2012                From field to text & dance and space. Proceedings for the 24th symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology (10–16 July 2006, Tranzit House, Centre for Contemporary Art and Culture), Editors: Elsie Ivancich Dunin – Anca Giurchescu – Csilla Könczei, The Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities – International Council for Traditional Music: Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Co-author: Anca Giurchescu
  6. 2010                A halva született harmadik ikertestvér. Nyilvános beszéd a nem létező romániai magyar tánckutatásról a hatvanas-nyolcvanas években, Az erdéyi magyar táncművészet és tánctudomány az ezredfordulón. Editor: Könczei Csongor, Editura Kriterion, Cluj-Napoca, 105-116. / Tripletul mort în fașă. Discursurile publice despre inexistența cercetării dansului maghiar din România în anii 1960-1980, Coreogrqfia și etnocoreologia maghiară din Transilvania în mileniul trei. Ed.: Könczei Csongor, Editura Kriterion, Cluj. 121-133.
  7. 2009                Kulturális identitás, rítus és reprezentáció a brassó megyei háromfaluban. A borica. [Cultural identity, rite and representation in the Three Villages from Brașov County: The Borica] Kriza János Ethnographical Association, Cluj
  8. 2007                Civil a pályán. Vélemény a pártállami diktatúra titoktalanításáról. [On the desecretization of the Dictatorship during the Unique Party-system Regime / Despre desecretizarea dictaturii statului-unipartid] Vitaindító., Magyar Kisebbség, 7-16.
  9. 2007                Táncelméleti írások. Writings in Dance Theory. (1987-2002). EFES, Cluj-Kolozsvár
  10. 2006                Valóság – mozi – társadalom. Bevezetés a dokumentumfilm antropológiájába. [Reality – Cinema – Society. Introduction into the anthropology of documentary] Desire, Cluj
  11. 2002                Ilonka néni. [Threelingual biography of Lăcătuş Ileana – in Rromani, Romanian, Hungarian] Editura Fundaţiei Pentru Studii Europene, EFES. Colecţia Studii Culturale.
  12. 2002 (1986)     Jegyzetek a Lábán-táncjelírásról. [Manual of the international dance-notation system „Laban”] Edited by Kriza János Néprajzi Társaság, Hagyományok Háza, Kolozsvár-Budapest
  13. 1994                Dance and Meaning. Is there a Conceptual Thinking in Dance? In: Kultursemiotik  und Kulturtheorie. Akten des 4. Österreichisch-Ungarisches Semiotik – Kolloqium, Wien 1994. Jf. 18 1-4/1994. 95-104.
  14. 1994                Ötletek a tánc textológiai elemzéséhez [Dance semiotics, multimedial textology: towards a textology of dance.] In: Szemiotikai szövegtan 7. A multimediális kommunikátumok szemiotikai textológiai megközelítéséhez. JGYTF Kiadó, Szeged. Szerk. Petőfi S.János, Békési Imre, Vass László, pag. 51-68.
  15. 1989                Motívumépítkési elvek a hétfalusi borica táncban. [Principles of creation in “Borica” dance from Seven Villages.] In: Tánctudományi Tanulmányok 1988-1989. szerk. Major Rita, Budapest, 145-163.

Teaching

  • Introduction to cultural and social anthropology
  • Visual communication
  • The history of cultural and social anthropology
  • Anthropological film and documentary
  • Dance anthropology
  • Representation and power. Roma Representation in the Light of Cultural Theories
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