Elsie Ivancich Dunin

Elsie Ivancich Dunin (left) and Allegra Fuller Snyder (right) after receiving the 2006 CORD Award for Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research from CORD president Ray Miller (center)

Elsie Ivancich Dunin (born July 19, 1935) is a dance ethnologist (ethnochoreologist), choreographer, professor and author specializing in folk dance from Croatia, Macedonia, and Romani (Gypsies) in Macedonia. Her studies focus on Croatian diaspora communities and associated sword dances in both Old and New World contexts. She is Professor Emerita of dance ethnology from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and is currently a dance research advisor with the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb, Croatia.[1] Her two daughters are Teresa (T.J.) and Elonka Dunin.

  1. ^ Phantom Ranch Folk Dancing. "Elsie Ivancich Dunin". Archived from the original on 2006-07-19. Retrieved 2006-09-19.