{"product_id":"contemporary-dance-festivals-in-the-for","title":"Contemporary Dance Festivals In The For","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003ePLESkavica\u003c\/i\u003e, Slovenia; \u003ci\u003eKondenz\u003c\/i\u003e, Serbia and \u003ci\u003eLocoMotion\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57196493734270,"sku":"NW9781032344690","price":39.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781032344690.jpg?v=1778540353","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/contemporary-dance-festivals-in-the-for","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}