Description
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of acronyms and abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: The former Yugoslav space and contemporary dance in context
Chapter 2: Introducing Nomad Dance Academy: a foundation for imperceptible politics
Chapter 3: LocoMotion festival: curatorial praxis and balance
Chapter 4: PLESkavica festival: the Balkan beef-burger, Defestivalisation and Refestivalisation
Chapter 5: Kondenz festival: controversies and the scene
Chapter 6: International development and contemporary dance festivals
Conclusion
Appendix: Festivals of dance and choreography database
Index
-
- 洋書電子書籍
-
市民劇場のための演出
Direc…
-
- 洋書電子書籍
- The Hejaz Railway a…
