Contemporary Dance Festivals in the Former Yugoslav Space

(in)dependent Scenes
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-34464-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 479 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

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.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Further/Vocational Education, General, and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baybutt, Alexandra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Ballett, Modern Dance
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Geschichte des Tanzes
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Gesellschaftstänze, Volkstänze

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Alexandra Baybutt (PhD, RSME, CMA) works as a freelancer across Europe in dance and movement research, education and art with a commitment to interdisciplinary practice and collaboration.