The scientific-practical conference is a traditional program of the International folklore festival in Veliko Tarnovo. From the second addition in 1999 until now are implemented three conferences and in a process of preparation is the fourth addition. The first theoretical conference was devoted to the problems of the folklore dance. “The ceremony dance yesterday and today” was the topic of the second scientific-practical conference in the summer of 2001. The participants in the conference and the festival observed alive performances of dervishes from Turkey and fire-dancers from Bulgaria. The showed dances carried religious and traditional symbolism, messages and suggestions preserved during the centuries and presented authentic to the contemporary public. The third scientific-practical conference was held in the summer of 2002 in the frameworks of the Fifth jubilee folklore festival Veliko Tarnovo 2002. “The folklore music and dance today” was the topic, which united the points of view of theoreticians and practicians in the area of the musical and dance folklore, the scientific forum let down a bridge between the yesterday and today explanations, creative searches and interpretations of the folklore music and dance. In the discussion took part representatives of the Bulgarian - prof. Todor Djidjev, prof. Nikolay Kaufman, Lachezaria Pavlova - choreographer-pedagogue, Krum Georgiev - folklorist and Daniela Ivanova - ethnochoreolog, of the Turkish - Dr.Cengiz Aydin and of the Serbian - Prof. Olivera Vasich, as well as leaders of 15 dance ensembles, which participated in the Festival. During the Third scientific-practical conference was born the idea of the topic of the Fourth scientific-practical conference. Completely logical continuation of the topic of the previous conference will be the formulation of the new one “ The folklore dance - traditions and contemporaneity”. For a participation are invited lecturers in universities in Greece, Macedonia and Croatia, who will suggest trends, methods and practices of teaching and contemporary interpretation of the teaching in folklore dance. Their theoretical and practical experience will share scientific assistants from the Institute for folklore of BAS (Bulgarian academy of science), lecturers from the universities in Varna and Blagoevgrad, teachers in secondary schools with a specialized teaching in folklore dances and choreographers of the folklore ensembles-participants in the Sixth international folklore festival Veliko Tarnovo 2003.