Contemporary Dance Festivals in the Former Yugoslav Space: (in)dependent Scenes (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)

Synopsis

This book expands the understanding of conditions defining the creation and circulation of contemporary dance that differ across Europe. It focuses on festival-making connected with the Balkan regional project ‘Nomad Dance Academy’ (NDA), and highlights collective approaches to sustain a theorisation of festivals using the concepts of dissensus and imperceptible politics. Drawing from anthropological methods, three festivals PLESkavica, Slovenia; Kondenz, Serbia and LocoMotion, North Macedonia, are explored through social, political and historical currents affecting curatorial practice. This book closely follows how festival-makers navigate the values of international development that during and after the Yugoslav wars looked to art as part of peacekeeping and nation-building processes. This coincided with increasing discourse and practices of contemporary dance that gained momentum in the 1980s alongside European festivalisation. I show how contemporary dance acts as an agent for transformation, but also a carrier of older forms of social organisation, reflecting methods and values of Yugoslav Worker Self-management that are deployed by the groups creating the festivals. This book will be of interest to dance scholars as well as researchers tracing the long-term effects of the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Copyright:

2023

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781000894769

Related ISBNs:

9781032344690, 9781003322306, 9781032344645

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

06/09/23

Copyrighted By:

Alexandra Baybutt

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No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Reference, Art and Architecture, Drama, Plays and Theater

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