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Performing the Greek Crisis

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 d...

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1. Verfasser: Zervou, Natalie
Format: Online
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: University of Michigan Press 2025
Schlagworte:
Embodiment and Crisis, Greek Crisis, Dance, Contemporary Dance, Greek Dance, Concert Dance, Austerity, Performance, Performing Arts, Modern Greek Studies, Greek Nation, Regional Festivals, Refugee Crisis, Choreography, Sovereign Debt Crisis, Dance Studies, National Identity, Financial Crisis
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATQ Dance
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
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Zusammenfassung: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.

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