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Performing the Greek Crisis - Natalie Zervou

Performing the Greek Crisis

Navigating National Identity in the Age of Austerity

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Buch | Softcover
252 Seiten
2024
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-05675-0 (ISBN)
CHF 52,40 inkl. MwSt
Examining how changes in dance amid the Greek financial crisis altered perceptions and discourses of Greece’s culture and national identity
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 experiences, weaving the personal with the political to humanize a phenomenon that, to date, had been examined chiefly through economic and statistical lenses. Informed by the author’s experience of growing up in Greece and including interviews and rich descriptions of performances, the book offers a glimpse into a pivotal moment in Greek history.

In Greece, dance (and, by 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 through a precariously fluctuating landscape, with their bodies as their only stable referent. 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.

Natalie Zervou is Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Contents

Illustrations
Note on Transliteration and Translation
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Contested Bodies: Dance and Greek Nation Building
Chapter 2 Fragments of a Precarious Landscape: The Crisis from Within
Chapter 3 Choreographing the Periphery: Displacement and the “Weird”
Chapter 4 The Rise of Regional Festivals
Chapter 5 Choreographies of the European Refugee Crisis
Epilogue
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices
Zusatzinfo 23 figures, 1 table
Verlagsort Ann Arbor
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Tanzen / Tanzsport
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10 0-472-05675-1 / 0472056751
ISBN-13 978-0-472-05675-0 / 9780472056750
Zustand Neuware
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