(Post)Socialist Dance: A Search for Hidden Legacies

This book sets out to search for the Second World - the (post)socialist context - in dance studies and examines the way it appears and reappears in today’s globalized world.It traces hidden and invisibilized legacies over the span of one century, probing questions that can make viewers, artists, and scholars uncomfortable regarding dance histories, memories, circulations and production modes in and around the (post)socialist world.The contributions delve into a variety of dance practices (folk, traditional, ballet, modern, contemporary), modes of dance production (institutionalization processes, festival-making and market logics), and dance circulations (between centres and peripheries, between different genres and styles).The main focus is Eastern Europe (including Russia) but the book also addresses Cuba and China.The book’s historical examples make the reader aware, too, of the (post)socialist bodies’ influence in today’s dance, including in contemporary dance scenes.The (post)socia