A fifty-year (1962-2012) period has been shown as a history of
ethnochoreology supported by living memories of members of the International
Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) Study Group on Ethnochoreology.
Recently uncovered and juxtapositioned correspondence of three predecessors
within earlier years of the International Folk Music Council (IFMC) broadens
the history. This article reveals the emergence of ethnochoreology during
the 1950s with publications of the two Jankovic sisters in Serbia with that
of Gertrude Kurath in the United States, alongside correspondence with Maud
Karpeles, the unheralded founder of the IFMC.