Dance and Politics

The issue of Maska magazine entitled Dance and Politics, edited by Bojana Kunst, is ‘designed as a web of reflections on the potentiality of political articulations, on different ways of establishing relations and embeddedness /in contemporary dance, op.p. /Is dance still possible today, even if, or precisely because, it reflects its impossibility again and again, because it always subverts what makes it possible in the first place, because it constantly shows and releases its conditions?’

Dance and Politics borrows its title from the highly acclaimed writing of the journalist and critic of contemporary dance Jean Marc-Adolphe, who also published his eponymous article in Masque in 1994.

On a subject that remains largely unexplored to this day, this issue, with an international cast of writers, reveals that the various links between dance and politics have existed throughout its history, and that they can and should be read and thought about again and again … The issue features articles by Ramsay Burt, Jens Giersdorf, Bojana Kunst, Kassimira Kruschkova, Bojana Cvejić, Rok Vevar, Nirvana Marinho, Johannes Birringer and Petra Sabisch, as well as studies by Mojca Puncer and Barbara Orel in the reviewers’ section.