Chairing: Norwegian dance for the 1990s Dance development project 1990-92
Grant from Ministry of Culture Norwegian kroner 475.000
Co-chairing The Body in Motion Research project NTNU: 1999-2002
Including Computer science Psychology, Sport Science, Philosophy, Music, Dance, Drama
Grant from Norwegian Research council Norwegian kroner 1.380.000
Co-chairing Norden i dans publishing project 2002-2008
Grant from Nordic Culture Fund and others Norwegian kroner 260.557
Participating in Dance in Nordic Spaces Nordic research project 2007-2010
Grant from Riksbankens jubileumsfond Euros 500.000
Chairing The Minuet Nordic-French research workshop 2008
Grant from Kulturkontakt nord Norwegian kroner 80.000
Co-charing Sangleg, b0fns egenaktivitet 2009-2010
Grants from Nordisk kulturfond 185.000 Dkr.
Co-charing Folk dances now and then. Cultural exchange and cooperation of experts. 2009-10
Eea-grant for cooperation with Poland
Performer - audience interaction. A potential for dance art? Program for kunstnerisk utviklingsarbeid 2012-13. L0yving kr. 400.000
Secretary/Chair in the Nordic Association for Folk Dance Research from 1977 till present.
Member of the Nordic Council of Ministers' Committee for Theatre and Dance 1988 -1992
Member excecutive board ofthe International Council for Traditional Music 1999-2005
Vice Chair in the ICTM Studygroup on Ethnochoreology 1992-2000
Board member in the Nordic Forum for Dance Research from 1993, Chair: 1993-95.
Chair for the Norwegian Minstry of Culture's Council for Traditional Costume 1995-2007.
Board member of the European Centre for Traditional Culture, Budapest,
Founding member Word Dance Alliance - Europa.
Member of committee evaluating the Swedish University College for Dance 1998 and 2001
Member of Art Coucil Norway's committee for Norwegian Music Festivals 1998-2000
ChairNicechair for National Council for Dance in higher education 2004 till present
On UNESCO's task force at the opening of the Okinawa Audiovisual Archive 2003
On Jury for UNESCO Proclamation of World Masterpieces of Intangible Culture, Paris 2005
Invited expert at UNESCO's meeting on the implementation of the Convention on
Safeguarding ofIntangible Cultural Heritage New Dehli, India 2007.
Examiner for UNESCO of a candidate for the Urgent Safeguarding list Abu Dhabi 2009
Member of Consultative body, ICH convention of UNESCO 2012
Selstreffprisen (Prize of a Norwegian Folk Music Festival)
Honorary member of Soumalaisen Kansantanssin Ystavat (Friends of Finnish Folk Dance)

Honorary member of the Norwegian National Association for Traditional Music and Dance
Commander of the Royal St. Olav's Order
Prize for internationalisation at Norwegian University of Science and Technology
2008 Dance structures. Live Illustrations. DVD-addition to the book: Dance structures.
Perspectives on the analysis of human movement. 2 DVD-ar.. Radet for folkemusikk og folkedans Trondheim
2007 Norden i dans. Folk-fag-forskning. Folkedansens faghistorie i Norden. Novus forlag.
Egil Bakka og Gunnel Biskop (redakt0rar). 712 sider.
2006 Bakka, Egil: Samdans? Rapport fra prosjektarbeid om folkedans og samtidsdans i
Noreg.. Trondheim: Radet for folkemusikk og folkedans, Institutt for musikk, program for dansevitskap 42 s.
2005 Svettednlpen. Folkedansdrapar : lreremateriell for folkedans i grunnskulen / av Egil
Bakka, Brit Versland og Dag Vardal. Flekkefjord: Norsk dansevyrke 2005. ISBN 82-91419-
22-1. 125 sider.
2002 Noreg i Dans og Spel. Lreremateriell for musikkfaget. Radet for folkemusikk og folkedans, Rff-sentret. Egil Bakka , redakt0f Kommentarhefte 73 s. Video med 36 dansar/slMtar fra alle norske fylke.
2002 Fiskvik, Anne & Bakka Egil (Red):
Dance Knowledge. Danskunnskap. International Conference on Cognitive Aspects ofDance.
Proceedingsfi'om 6th NOFOD Conference, Trondheim January 10-13 2002 Trondheim 261 pp. Published by Radet for folkemusikk og folkedans and Nordisk forum for danseforskning
ISBN: 82-91419-20-5
1997 Bakka, Egil :Europeisk dansehistorie. (European Dance History) Gyldendal256 pp.
Oslo.
1997 Nordisk folkedanstypologi. (Egil Bakka red. og bidragsytar) En systematisk katalog over publiserte nordiske folkedanser. (Nordic Folk Dance Typology, a systematic Catalogue of published Nordic Folk Dances. Radet for folkemusikk og folkedans og Nordisk forening for folkedansforskning, Trondheim, 135 pp.
1996 Bakka, Egil og Arne Vikan:Dansetradisjoner fra Finnmark. (Dance Traditions from
Finnmark) Finnmark Ungdomslag og Radet for folkemusikk og folkedans 250 pp, music, ill.
Trondheim,

2011 Bakka, Egil; Fiskvik, Anne Margrete.
Tracing Dance Fields. I: Dance and the Formation of Norden. Emergences and Struggles.
Tapir Akademisk Forlag ISBN 978-82-519-2648-5. s. 57-103
2011 Bakka, Egil; Fiskvik, Anne Margrete; Damsholt, Inger; Hammergren, Lena; Hoppu,
Petri; Nilsson, Mats; Vedel, Karen.
Reflexsive Notes: A Conclusion. I: Dance and the Formation of Norden. Emergences and
Struggles. Tapir Akademisk Forlag ISBN 978-82-519-2648-5. s. 197-205
2011 Bakka, Egil.
Tracing lines through the History of Nordic Folk dance Movement. I: Folk dances now and
then in the light of Polish and Norwegian experience.. : Wojewodzki Dom Kultury in Kielce
ISBN 978-83-914001-3-5. s. 37-62
2010 Bakka, Egil; Karoblis, Gediminas: Writing a dance: Epistemology for Dance Research.
Yearbookfor Traditional Music; Volum 42. s. 109-135
2009 Bakka, Egil; Gore, Georgiana: Intangible cultural heritage: Agency and/or critical distance. I: Transmitting Dance as Cultural Heritage & Dance and Religion: Proceedings of
the 25th Symposium ofthe ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology.. Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia: Cultural Centre University of Malaya, ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology
ISBN 978-967-5148-41-5. s. 15-21
2008 Bakka, Egil: Tradisjonelle songdansar - Eit oversyn. I: Balladdans i Norden. Symposium
i Stockholm 8-9 nov 2007. Stockholm: Svenskt visarkiv
2008 Fiskvik, Anne Margrete; Bakka, Egil: Vincenzo galeotti's Norwegian Springdance -
Stereotype or Fantasy? I: Vom Schaferidyll zur Revolution. Europaische Tanzkultur im 18.
Jahrhundert.
2.
Rothenfelser Tanzsymposium. Tagungsband. Freiburg: Fa-gisis. Musik und
Tanzeditionen ISBN 978-3-931344-06-1. s. 53-70
2007 Bakka, Egil. Analysis of traditional dance in Norway and the Nordic countries.. I:
Adrienne Kaeppler (Ed.) Dance Structures. Perspectives on the Analysis ofHuman
Movement. Budapest: Akademiai Kiado Rt. ISBN 978-963-05-8542-2. s. 103-112
2007 Bakka, Egil; Gore, Georgiana: Constructing dance knowledge in the field: bridging the gap between realisation and concept.. I: Proceedings Re-Thinking Practice and Theory.
International Symposium on Dance Research. Paris: Society of Dance History Scholars s.93-
97
2007 Bakka, Egil: Nordic Strategies in folk dance transmission. I: Dance: Tradition and
Transmission. Festschrifi for Laszl6 Feifoldi. Szeged: Neprajzi es Kulturalis Antropol6giai
Tanszek 2007 ISBN 978-963-482-849-5. s. 165-175
2006 Bakka, Egil: Appropriation et authenticite. I: Grau, Andree; Wierre-Gore, Georgiana;.
Antropologi de la danse. Genese et construction d'une discipline. Paris: Centre national de la danse 2006. ISBN 2-914124-28-7.319 s.

2006 Fiskvik, Anne Margrete; Bakka, Egil: Koreomusikalsk idealisering og praksis. En komparativ koreomusikalsk analyse av 13 versjoner av balletten Ildfuglen. Trondheim:
NTNU 2006 (ISBN 82-471-8035-9) ;Volum.350 s. Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU(l36)
2005 Bakka, Egil: Eit streiflys over songleiken. I: Balladar og blue Hawaii: folkloristiske og musikkvitskaplege studiar tileigna Velle Espeland i h0ve 60-arsdagen 6.juli 2005 . Oslo:
Novus Forlag 2005. ISBN 82-7099-416-2. s. 137-149
2005 Bakka, Egil: Dance Paradigms - Movement Analysis and Dance studies. I: Dance and
Society. Budapest, Ungam: Akademiai Kiad6 2005. ISBN 963-05-8273-2
2002 Bakka, Egil:Whose Dances, Whose Authenticity? In: Ed. Lasz16 Felf6ldi and Theresa J.
Buckland: Autenticity. Whose Tradition? European Folklore Institute 20023 s. 60-69
2002 Bakka, Egil: The Polka Before and After Polka" In: Yearbookfor Traditional Music
2001, Volume 33.
1999 Egil Bakka: Or Shortly They would be Lost Forever': Documenting for Revival and
Research In: Buckland, Theresa (Ed.) Dance in the Field. Theory Methods and Issues in
Dance. pp 71-81 Macmillan Press Ltd, London.