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Yearbook of the Independent Performing Arts Scene in Serbia - TkH

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As I return to my arguments from <strong>the</strong> previous chapter, <strong>the</strong> question <strong>of</strong>assumed ‘colonization’ <strong>of</strong> Eastern Europe through dance gets additionalspotlight. I would never<strong>the</strong>less assume that this is not a question <strong>of</strong> colonizationperceived as an aggression from <strong>the</strong> outside, but <strong>of</strong> <strong>in</strong>ner transformation<strong>of</strong> Eastern societies, adopt<strong>in</strong>g a neo-liberal capitalist social structureas already developed <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> West. Their transformation annihilates <strong>the</strong>dist<strong>in</strong>ction between <strong>the</strong> (socialist) East and (capitalist) West – although nei<strong>the</strong>rex-East nor ex-West is still ready to fully accept it. So, when I recentlysaid 12 that what we had <strong>in</strong> <strong>Serbia</strong> at <strong>the</strong> moment was Western contemporarydance, Dalija Ać<strong>in</strong> asked: “How, when am I (perceived as) an Easternchoreographer?” She made her po<strong>in</strong>t. So did I. 13Pro<strong>of</strong>-read by Irena Šentevska12 Tanzquartier Wien, May 31, 2007.13 My discussion tackled only <strong>the</strong> historical background <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> local contemporarydance scene, which susta<strong>in</strong>s Western dance history, but not <strong>the</strong> local/Eastern. We cont<strong>in</strong>ued with a debate on what <strong>the</strong> actual outcomes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> localdance history that might be called contemporary Eastern dance would be like –new slets, parades, amateur dance? Perhaps… But <strong>the</strong>re lies ano<strong>the</strong>r problem:<strong>the</strong>se practices have never laid claims to contemporaneity. Thence, a chapter <strong>in</strong>a discourse on contemporary dance <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> former East should address <strong>the</strong> issue<strong>of</strong> claims to ‘contemporaneity’.r a s [41]t e r

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