Egil Bakka, professor emeritus of the Programme for dance studies, Department for Music, Faculty of Humanities, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He was convener and the academic coordinator of Choreomundus, and built the NTNU programme for dance studies. He was the director and the builder of the Norwegian Centre of traditional dance and music 1973-2013. He has been leading a number of research projects, organised conferences and published a number of books, films, phonograms and articles and done extensive fieldwork in all parts of Norway.