ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE CRITICISM 1918–1960

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The anthology presents for the first time ever the range and wealth of dance criticism in the period between the wars and in the two decades following World War II. This was a pioneering and at the same time also extremely eclectic period for the art of dance in Slovenia, as the cultural audiences took considerable and keen interest in all sorts of aestheticized kinetics; it was a period of the sudden expansion of corporeal and dance cultures and a time of great appetite for the public to understand, interpret, and reflect on the phenomena of contemporary dance in its early modernist phase.

Book title: DAY, NIGHT + HUMAN = RHYTHM, Anthology of contemporary dance criticism 1918–1960
Editor: Rok Vevar
Publisher: Maska, Institute for Publishing, Production and Education 2018; book series TRANSformacije

Rok Vevar

Rok Vevar (born 1973) is a writer covering contemporary scenic arts theory and history and a contemporary dance historian and archivist. His texts have been published in numerous Slovene daily newspapers and in several Slovene and international journals of scenic arts and literature. He is the author of the book Rok za oddajo – Izbrane kritike in članki (Litera, 2011). In 2011 he founded the Temporary Slovene Dance Archive in his apartment in Ljubljana and initiated. He is active member of Balkan dance network Nomad Dance Academy, where he initiated regional project of archiving choreographic practices.