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  • Sodobni ples v Sloveniji - strategije preživetja otrok potlačene zgodovine
    Praznik, Katja
    In this article, the author starts from the thesis that the situation of contemporary dance in Slovenia - both at the level of institutionalisation andat the level of artistic field - is equal to the ... situation of women in patriarchal society. Schematically and on the basis of accessible sources, shepoints to several historical periods in the establishment and development of the field, as well as to the suppression of contemporary dance in Slovenia from the time of its first emergence in the 1920s and 1930s to the present. Starting from the concept of suppressed history and Eda Čufer's thesis that contemporary dance is an utterly suppressed area of Slovene cultural history, the author argues that the inequality of Slovene dance at the level of artistic field results from its central orientation to the staging of the materiality of the body, or the affirmation of the body as a relevant and important bearer of knowledge and as a crucial element in the creation of stage images. At the level of institutionalisation, contemporary dance also holds an unequal position, since it has neither the necessary conditions nor the institutionalised status which would allow for its comprehensive development. The author goes on to discuss periods in the development of contemporary dance in Slovenia, as well as the self-organised acts of the protagonists of the contemporary dance scene, and points to the reasons for the current situation in contemporary dance; a situation in which generations of female and male choreographers have lived and worked and which remains in the sphere of unrealised institutionalisation. The author proposes the thesis that to further the current institutionalisation of contemporary dance it is crucial that the creators of contemporary dance themselves (and the cultural policy with them) gain structural awareness of this suppressed history and approve their own past. Only in this way will they be able to legitimately andfully open the doors to the future and establish a credo of their own historical references and crucial facts defining the persistent commitment to the body and movement - ephemeral elements that compose, together with the idiosyncrasy of expression, the suppressed presence of contemporary dance in this country.
    Vir: Amfiteater : revija za teorijo scenskih umetnosti = journal of performing arts theory. - ISSN 1855-4539 (Letn. 1, št. 1, 2008, str. 207-222)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del ; neleposlovje za odrasle
    Leto - 2008
    Jezik - slovenski
    COBISS.SI-ID - 2540123

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