Siri Mæland
About
I defended my doctoral thesis 21. January 2019:
A scholarship from NTNU financed the docotoral work from 2102-2016.
For the academic year 2019/2020 I have a 50% position at NTNU as a associated professor, convener of MA Choreomundus: Choreomundus - International master in Dance Knowledge, Practice, and Heritage.
I am currently employed at the Norwegian Centre for Traditional Music and Dance (Sff) where I have been a dance teacher, archivist and researcher since 2001. Sff is localised togheter with the Dance studies section at the Department of Music. I have been called as a part time teacher at the Dance Studies regularly. Sff is cooperating organisation to Choreomundus - International master in Dance Knowledge, Practice, and Heritage.
I have a background as primary and secondary school teacher with music (1998). I have a BA from Dance studies at NTNU (2002), and hold an MA from the field of Ethnomusicology from the University of Bergen (2007).
I am a practitioner in Norwegian folkdance and I love teaching dance.
My doctoral thesis
Dansebygda Haltdalen – Knowledge-in-dancing in a Rural Community in Norway. Triangular interaction between dance, music and partnering
In Haltdalen there exists, and has existed historically, a festkultur (party culture), which involves social gatherings where people meet to have fun. That a festkultur, with its live music and couple dancing for community members across generations, still exists and even thrives today in contemporary ‘globalized’ Norway is, in fact, an ‘exotic’ situation. In the heart of this festkultur is the music interacting with dancing of what could be labelled trønderrock, danseband¸ gammeldans and folkedans/traditional dance. Siri Mæland has researched the continuity of this festkultur during the years 2012-2015, with focus on the inhabitants knowledge-in-dancing and on how they are intentionally and emotionally involved in the activity with co-dancers at community parties. Through her thesis Mæland shows how mastering the practical skills of social couple dancing (a common understanding of rhythm- and couple dance technique) unifies pleasure, knowledge, creativity and choreography. Her thesis is an innovative methodological approach, a demonstration of how formal analysis and experience-based perspectives can go hand in hand. This is an original contribution to dance scholarship, substantive and potentially very productive in heralding new directions in methodological inquiry. The thesis is a significant contribution to the understanding of Nordic dance practices, and to cultural research in general. Read more here.
Publications
2015
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Karoblis, Gediminas;
Bakka, Egil;
Stranden, Marit;
Heide, Sigurd Johan;
Mæland, Siri.
(2015)
Performer - audience interaction. A potential for dance art?.
Research Catalogue. An international database for artistic research
[Kunstnerisk og museal presentasjon] . Norwegian Artistic Research Programme; https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/60494/60495. 2015-06-30.
Other presentation
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Mæland, Siri.
(2015)
Danse ein melodi. Veit me alt, eller kan rørsledeteksjon og elicitationintervju vera verktøy til å utforska dette nærare?.
Folkedansforskning i Norden.
Popular scientific article
2014
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Mæland, Siri.
(2014)
Tradisjonsdans som universitetsstudium? Prøveordning med utøvarstudium i tradisjonsdans (2009-2012).
(Re)Searching the Field. Festschrift in Honour of Egil Bakka.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2013
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Mæland, Siri;
Bakka, Egil;
Svarstad, Elizabeth.
(2013)
Vertikalitet og den franske 1700-talls menuetten.
Folkedansforskning i Norden.
Article
2012
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Mæland, Siri.
(2012)
Testing the Concept of ‘Hybridity’ in Dance Studies: The Case of Halling: Halling at Competitions, Bergen Norway 1898 to Seljord, Norway 2011.
Dancing Mosaic. Issues on Dance Hybridity.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2010
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Fiskvik, Anne Margrete;
Mæland, Siri;
Torvik, Eli;
Eeg-Tverbakk, Camilla;
Haraldsen, Heidi M..
(2010)
Dans,estetikk og samfunn.
2010. ISBN 9788275223515.
Textbook
2007
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Mæland, Siri.
(2007)
Folkedanskroppen, ”a body-of-ideas”.Om historikk, stil, estetikk og kjønnsroller i Vestlandsspringaren.
Universitetet i Bergen. 2007.
Master thesis
Journal publications
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Mæland, Siri.
(2015)
Danse ein melodi. Veit me alt, eller kan rørsledeteksjon og elicitationintervju vera verktøy til å utforska dette nærare?.
Folkedansforskning i Norden.
Popular scientific article
-
Mæland, Siri;
Bakka, Egil;
Svarstad, Elizabeth.
(2013)
Vertikalitet og den franske 1700-talls menuetten.
Folkedansforskning i Norden.
Article
Books
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Fiskvik, Anne Margrete;
Mæland, Siri;
Torvik, Eli;
Eeg-Tverbakk, Camilla;
Haraldsen, Heidi M..
(2010)
Dans,estetikk og samfunn.
2010. ISBN 9788275223515.
Textbook
Part of book/report
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Mæland, Siri.
(2014)
Tradisjonsdans som universitetsstudium? Prøveordning med utøvarstudium i tradisjonsdans (2009-2012).
(Re)Searching the Field. Festschrift in Honour of Egil Bakka.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Mæland, Siri.
(2012)
Testing the Concept of ‘Hybridity’ in Dance Studies: The Case of Halling: Halling at Competitions, Bergen Norway 1898 to Seljord, Norway 2011.
Dancing Mosaic. Issues on Dance Hybridity.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Report
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Mæland, Siri.
(2007)
Folkedanskroppen, ”a body-of-ideas”.Om historikk, stil, estetikk og kjønnsroller i Vestlandsspringaren.
Universitetet i Bergen. 2007.
Master thesis
UTSTILLING
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Karoblis, Gediminas;
Bakka, Egil;
Stranden, Marit;
Heide, Sigurd Johan;
Mæland, Siri.
(2015)
Performer - audience interaction. A potential for dance art?.
Research Catalogue. An international database for artistic research
[Kunstnerisk og museal presentasjon] . Norwegian Artistic Research Programme; https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/60494/60495. 2015-06-30.
Other presentation
Media
2015
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Academic lectureMæland, Siri; Viken, Sjur. (2015) "Dancing a Tune" in Panel: Soft and hard – Broadening dance agency by combining elicitation and motion capture. SDHS/CORD Annual Conference 2015. Cut & Paste: Dance Advocacy in the Age of Austerity . Society of Dance History Scholars & Congress on Research in; Aten. 2015-06-04 - 2015-06-07.
2014
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Academic lectureMæland, Siri. (2014) "Narratives about knowledge-in-dancing" in Panel: Constructing dance narratives for dancing knowledge/stories: a reflection on method(s). 28th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group of Ethnochoreology . ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology; Korcula. 2014-07-07 - 2014-07-17.
2013
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Academic lectureStranden, Marit; Mæland, Siri; Viken, Sjur; Mogstad, Ivar. (2013) Challenges in the revival process of Norwegian traditional dance and music from archive films. Dance ACTions 2013 - Traditions and Transformations . NOFOD and SDHS international joint conference; Trondheim. 2013-06-08 - 2013-06-11.