Practicing Communities in South-Slavic Theatre and Performance
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
9781666971422 (ISBN)
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This edited collection contextualizes South Slavic performance as a response to Yugoslavia’s socio-political disintegration and the crisis of self-management. The volume explores how theatre and performance became powerful tools for community-building, activism, and reimagining identity in post-Yugoslav societies through critical, site-specific, and participatory artistic practices.
Practicing Communities in South Slavic Theatre and Performance, edited by Leo Rafolt, sets the stage for a comprehensive exploration of performance practices in the former Yugoslav region. Framed by the expression “Jugoslavija je okružena brigama”, authors of this volume contextualize different performances within the socio-political, cultural, and ideological tensions of the post-transition era. The texts highlight how the contextt of post-Yugoslavia’s unique post-communal model, rising nationalism, and economic instability create a fertile ground for politically charged, community-oriented artistic practices. The volume brings together essays examining diverse performance forms, ranging from avant-garde art, street protests, contemporary dance pieces, traditional forms, storytelling, and site-specific interventions to contemporary post-dramatic theatre and applied theatre. These practices are presented as tools for memory work, social critique, and identity negotiation in a fragmented post-Yugoslav context. Through case studies and theoretical frameworks, this book reveals how artists reimagine belonging and reclaim public space, positioning performance as an active force in shaping cultural memory, political discourse, and collective identity.
Leo Rafolt is a professor in the Department of Theatre at Josip Juraj Strossmayer University.
“Jugoslavija je okružena brigama”: An Introduction
Chapter 1. Remapping Hybridity of post-Yugoslav Art: From Geographies of Connectivity to Imaginaries of Interstitial Future
Sandra Uskokovic
Chapter 2.
Performance Art Festivals in the Republic of Croatia in the First Decade of the 2000s or on the “Fall of Cratodemia” or Towards the Past Communitas
Suzana Marjanic
Chapter 3. Hidden Corners of Belonging: Walling Up as a Form of Community Building
in Vice Tomasovic's Performance The Penance
Ewa Wróblewska-Trochimiuk
Chapter 4. The Performance of the Play Koto(R) O KOTORU as a Specific Form of the Applied Theatre
Ana Gospic Županovic
Chapter 5. Discourses and Dance: An Introduction to the Analysis of the Resistance of Philosophy and Theory towards Dance
Miško Šuvakovic
Chapter 6. Theatre as the Institution of Democracy: The Post-Yugoslav Case
Svetlana Slapšak
Chapter 7. On Totalitarian Psyche, Transnational Migrants, and their Performative Legacy Revisited
Leo Rafolt
Chapter 8. Polish Exploratory Theatres on the Road to the Slavic South in the 1990s
Magdalena Boguslawska
Chapter 9. Performative Dimension of the Collective Protest Actions in Slovenia
Aldo Milohnic
Chapter 10. “NUS Barutana”: Challenges and Successes of The First Independent Art Scene in Osijek in the early 2000s
Katarina Žeravica
About the Authors
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.08.2025 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 40 tables |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781666971422 / 9781666971422 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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