№ 3(48)–4(49) 2022: Contemporary dance in the age of performativity
Guest Editor:
Dr. Leonid A. MENSHIKOV
Russia, St. Petersburg
Saint-Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, Head of the Humanities Department
The nature of contemporary dance is in the search for self-defining and actual forms, it seeks to engage topical issues, expresses its attitude. Development of this phenomenon during a period more than a century in the West provides a model for its continuous positioning in culture and for its reflects the vicissitudes of the difficult history of the 20th century. Contemporary dance in Russia is thought as a line of evolution forms from the beginning of the 20th century, which was interrupted during the Soviet period and was resumed after its end.
Main directions of the contemporary dance development have been outlined. Contemporary dance as an artistic expressing manifests itself in traditional stage (theatrical) forms and in the field of performance, which is characterized by open composition and interest in physicality. Contemporary dance as a body-oriented practice has given rise to diverse self-valuable dance-movement studies dispossessed visible artistic results., A whole spectrum of different forms of contemporary dance arises between these two poles. Such forms positioning themselves in different ways both in relation to the world of art and in the space of contemporary culture.
The following questions will be considered in the issue:
– artistic practices of contemporary dance;
– definition and genre originality of dance performance;
– physicality in dance and performance: areas of contact and differences in perception;
– historical aspects of the formation of Russian contemporary dance;
– contemporary dance as an artistic expression;
– classification of contemporary dance forms;
– institutionalization of contemporary dance, including in the education system;
– problems of documentation and archiving of contemporary dance and dance performance.
№ 1(50) 2023: Ethnoculture & Ethnosophy
Guest Editor:
Anatoliy M. Alekseev-Apraksin
Dr. Habil., Professor at UNESCO Chair in Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue; Professor at Department of Philosophy and Culture of the OrientSt. Petersburg State University, Visit-Professor HAINNU (Hainan Normal University. China)
This issue’s topic presents studies of modern forms of mythological consciousness and its cultural manifestations referring to ethnocultural traditions. The relevance of this topic is related to the necessity of studying practices, concepts, and phenomena that are appearing and spreading universally while being aimed at resorting to cultural roots. Its relevance is also related to the need of reviving local traditions and studying art projects and daily practices in which freshness and timeliness are gained by breaking through towards tradition and archaicism.
As it is known, one of the founders of Eurasionism N.S. Trubetskoy introduced the term ‘ethnosophy’ in 1926. Later, American cultural anthropologist M. Herskovits, famous Africanist V.R. Arsenyev as well as modern philosophers V.V. Vanchugov, A.V. Malinov, and M.N. Epshtein worked with this notion and the correspondent issues. Lying at the confluence of ethnography and sociology, historical and cultural anthropology, philosophy, and cultural studies, ethnosophy represents a forming academic discipline. It is aimed at studying cultural diversity that forms on the level of regional consciousness and manifests in multiple versions of ethnocultural and regional identity.
We would like to have readers of this issue of the International Magazine of Cultural Research among thinkers that study these phenomena, many of which are marked as ethnic by cultural studies but not fitting the framework of ethnology and ethnography due to academic traditions.
Topics for discussion:
– ethnosophy as a basis for the cultural self-consciousness
– semantic fields of ethnoculture
– new archaicism (theory and practice)
– ethnocultural appropriations and transfers
– regional forms of the cultural memory preservation
– experience of reconstructing local ethnic traditions
– mythodesign in modern cultural processes
– new global and regional ethnic traditions.
