ISBN:
9780472904433
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Studies in Dance
Series Statement:
Theories and practices
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Zervou, Natalie Performing the Greek crisis
DDC:
792.8/09495
Keywords:
Dance Economic aspects 21st century
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Dance Political aspects 21st century
;
National characteristics, Greek 21st century
;
Financial crises Social aspects 21st century
;
Danse - Aspect économique - Grèce - 21e siècle
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Danse - Aspect politique - Grèce - 21e siècle
;
Grecs - 21e siècle
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PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / History & Criticism
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HISTORY / Europe / Greece (see also Ancient / Greece)
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PERFORMING ARTS / General
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Greece Economic conditions 21st century
;
Social aspects
;
Greece Social conditions 21st century
;
Grèce - Conditions économiques - Aspect social - 21e siècle
;
Grèce - Conditions sociales - 21e siècle
Abstract:
Performing the Greek Crisis explores the impact of the Greek financial crisis (2009-19) on the performing arts sector in Greece, and especially on contemporary concert dance. When Greece became the first European Union member to be threatened with default, the resulting budget cuts pushed dance to develop in unprecedented directions. The book examines the repercussions that the crisis had on artists' daily lives and experience, weaving the personal with the political to humanize a phenomenon that to date had been examined chiefly through economic and statistical lenses. Informed by her own experience of growing up in Greece and including interviews and rich descriptions of performances, Natalie Zervou offers a glimpse into a pivotal moment in Greek history. In Greece, dance (and in extension, the body) has historically held a central role in the process of national identity construction. When the crisis broke out, artists had to navigate their way through a precariously fluctuating landscape, with their bodies as their one and only stable referent. In Greece, dance has held a historical role in national identity construction of Greece as the cradle of Western civilization. As the financial crisis coincided with the European Refugee Crisis, dancing bodies became agents to advocate for human rights. By centering the analysis of the Greek crisis on the dancing bodies, Performing the Greek Crisis is able to examine the various ways that artists reconceptualized their history and reframed ideas of national belonging, race, citizenship, and immigration
Description / Table of Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- A Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Contested Bodies: Dance and Greek Nation-Building -- 2. Fragments of a Precarious Landscape: The Crisis from Within -- 3. Choreographing the Periphery: Displacement and the "Weird" -- 4. The Rise of Regional Festivals -- 5. Choreographies of the European Refugee Crisis -- Epilogue -- References -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-219) and index
