caa a22 4500 388048220 CHVBK 20180307125044.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1998 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1478838 doi S0149767700005039 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1478838 Nieminen Pipsa Participation Motives in Relation to Background and Involvement Variables Among Finnish Non-Professional Dancers [Elektronische Daten] [Pipsa Nieminen] Different dance forms attract different people. Dancers involved in folk dance, ballroom dance, ballet, and modern dance differ in both their background and participation profiles (Nieminen 1997) and in their reasons for participating in dance (Nieminen 1998). In Finland, the 1980s can be considered a golden age in the field of dance education. It was the decade that at long last saw the start of university-level and vocational dance education in the country. At the same time students of physical education were given the opportunity to specialize in dance pedagogy. The new Finnish Opera House in Helsinki also generated a great deal of publicity for dance in general. All this gave impetus to a demand for qualified dance teachers and increased the number of people involved in art dance. Since the 1970s, folk dance has also become more popular than in previous years and today there are many innovative folk dance choreographers who want to see folk dance not only as the transmission of tradition but also as a theater-art form. The latest changes to take place in the field of folk and ballroom dance are partly due to the new four-year program for folk and ballroom dance instructors offered by the Oulu Conservatory of Music. Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 1998 Dance Research Journal Cambridge University Press 30/2(1998), 53-70 0149-7677 30:2<53 1998 30 DRJ https://doi.org/10.2307/1478838 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1478838 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Nieminen Pipsa NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Dance Research Journal Cambridge University Press 30/2(1998), 53-70 0149-7677 30:2<53 1998 30 DRJ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge