TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bayutt,Alexandra
TI  - CONTEMPORARY DANCE FESTIVALS IN THE FORMER YUGOSLAV SPACE: (in)dependent scenes
SN  - 9781000894745
U1  - 793.319497 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - [S.l.]
PB  - ROUTLEDGE
KW  - Dance festivals
KW  - Former Yugoslav republics
KW  - Modern dance
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003322306
ER  -