Gediminas Karoblis

Biographic Data

ID1457933
NAMEGediminas Karoblis
GIVEN NAMESGediminas
FAMILY NAMEKaroblis
SIGNATUREKAROBLIS G
AFFILIATIONSNorwegian University of Science and Technology
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Cultural sustainability— Art and Ubuntu as rationales for dancing

    Open AccessEgil Bakka, Gediminas Karoblis et al.ARTICLECogent Social Sciences2024

    This article scrutinises the rationales for dancing in the world and how they affect dance sustainability. These rationales are assumptions about societal values of dance that underlie national as well as international cultural policies, so basic that they are rarely challenged. The authors bring a challenge by asking if there is one universally valid and sustainable rationale for dancing, which makes sense to the totality of the global populatio…

  • Decolonising or Recolonising

    Open AccessEgil Bakka, Gediminas KaroblisARTICLEDance Research2021

    This article directly responds to an article authored by Iacono and Brown published in Dance Research (2016), and considers issues emerging since its publication. The core topic is the UNESCO Convention from 2003, and in our view, criticism in the 2016 article is based on misinterpretation. We address the claims that the Convention is marked by binarism and provide in-depth background for the concept of intangible cultural heritage. We also cauti…

  • Ballroom Dance in Its Golden Age

    Gediminas KaroblisARTICLEDance Chronicle2019

    Modern ballroom, a dance style that conquered the elites as well as the masses within the British Empire and beyond during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, has assumed a renewed p

  • Dance and Dizziness

    Gediminas KaroblisARTICLEDance Chronicle2015

    Episodes in Norwegian novelist Knut Hamsun's writings display recurrent kinesthetic imagery of dance. This imagery suggests experience in spinning forms of dance that lead directly to the experience of dizziness and in some cases collapse. Similar kinesthetic imagery can be found in Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky's books where dancing becomes “the time and the place” of a scandalous collapse. However, to put it in Danish philosopher Søren Ki…

  • Dance, Love, and National Awakening in Late Nineteenth-Century Lithuania

    Gediminas KaroblisARTICLEJournal of Baltic Studies2013References: 3

    By the end of the nineteenth century, Lithuania's national awakening in the sphere of the emotive life had resulted in the strengthening of folk traditions, songs, and games (dances). In the initial stages of the awakening, there was no doubt as to the relevance of folk singing and music. The case for folk dancing was less certain. If dancing was not discarded altogether on moral grounds, was it possible to make it into an important cultural and …

  • Writing A Dance

    Open AccessEgil Bakka, Gediminas KaroblisARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music2010Cited by: 7References: 24

    Over several years the authors of this article have had intensive discussions to find common ground in the topic they both specialize in: dance. Egil Bakka is a Norwegian ethnochoreologist, specializing in Nordic traditional dance/folk dance; Gediminas Karoblis is a Lithuanian philosopher, specializing in phenomenology and ballroom dancing. Our starting point was a philosophical question about the notion of dance knowledge and a shared worry abou…