The website of the Secession offers recipients the possibility for a switch to a participant’s perspective. In E-learning Spoon Dance , the e-learning part of the project, the physical structure of the dance—including the training units that explain the sequence of movements—can be learned in a model setup.

The third part of the project, About Spoon Dance and Hippocampus, includes a glossary with accompanying information, short text clips by selected writers, and a commented link list. It is likely that “xorós koutália” (spoon dance) was danced in the Greek cultural sphere by orthodox Christians from the ancient world up to the 19th century multinational Ottoman Empire. Most probably other Ottoman versions of the spoon dance existed in neighbouring Islamic regions. The development and tradition of the dance presumably came to a halt because of the forced displacement of Greeks living in Turkey and Turks living in Greece (according to the 1923 Lausanne Treaty). Today the popular dance has almost disappeared and lacks study.

Spoon Dance In The Hippocampus translates the structure of movements into an e-learning process and thus breaks with folkloristic expectations.

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