Anna Leon
Biographic Data
| ID | 6185661 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Leon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Leon |
| SIGNATURE | LEON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Academy of Fine Arts Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6734-7525 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Not All Lateness Is the Same
This contribution is the result of a collaboration between a movement and performance practitioner, researcher and educator; and a dance historian. It takes as a starting point the circumstance of ‘being late’—be it for a dance class or for keeping up with choreographic trends—in order to explore how Western dance practices and theoretical discourses about dance perform, reflect and reinforce power-laden concepts and enactments of spacetime. ‘Not…
Natalie Zervou, Performing the Greek Crisis. Navigating National Identity in the Age of Austerity
Mapping as Historiographic Practice
This article proposes mapping as a tool for dance historiography, and presents a case study of ballet in interwar Greece to show mapping’s distinct attributes. Mapping supports critical dance historiography in five interconnected ways: fostering anti-hegemonic dance histories that counter hierarchical and exclusionary classifications; diversifying dance history beyond West-centric and nation-centric frameworks; undoing linear narratives primarily…
Choreographing Proximity and Difference
Countering the historiographic under-representation of Greek modern dance, this article focuses on early twentieth-century dance artist Vassos Kanellos. Combining Western/European choreographic inputs and local, often traditional, elements, Kanellos rearticulated the inscription of Greek dance in historical time—beyond a sole focus on antiquity—and anchored it in a nationally marked space and in the specificity of a posited Greek “race.” Informed…
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Choreographing Proximity and Difference
Countering the historiographic under-representation of Greek modern dance, this article focuses on early twentieth-century dance artist Vassos Kanellos. Combining Western/European choreographic inputs and local, often traditional, elements, Kanellos rearticulated the inscription of Greek dance in historical time—beyond a sole focus on antiquity—and anchored it in a nationally marked space and in the specificity of a posited Greek “race.” Informed…
Mapping as Historiographic Practice
This article proposes mapping as a tool for dance historiography, and presents a case study of ballet in interwar Greece to show mapping’s distinct attributes. Mapping supports critical dance historiography in five interconnected ways: fostering anti-hegemonic dance histories that counter hierarchical and exclusionary classifications; diversifying dance history beyond West-centric and nation-centric frameworks; undoing linear narratives primarily…
Not All Lateness Is the Same
This contribution is the result of a collaboration between a movement and performance practitioner, researcher and educator; and a dance historian. It takes as a starting point the circumstance of ‘being late’—be it for a dance class or for keeping up with choreographic trends—in order to explore how Western dance practices and theoretical discourses about dance perform, reflect and reinforce power-laden concepts and enactments of spacetime. ‘Not…
Natalie Zervou, Performing the Greek Crisis. Navigating National Identity in the Age of Austerity
Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Dance (3 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Hegemony (2 works)