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Editors: Pia Brezavšček and Rok Bozovičar
Guest editor: Jasmina Založnik
Publishers: Maska, Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia, Kino Šiška (CoFestival 2020/2021)
Contributing Authors: Urban Belina, Evelin Bizjak, Jonathan Burrows, Guy Cools, Igor Dobričić, Ana Dubljević, Jule Flierl, Edka Jarząb, Elina Pirinen, Bojana Piškur, Martina Ruhsam, Dejan Srhoj, Irena Z. Tomažin, Rok Vevar, Luka T. Zagoričnik
Translations: Urban Belina, Sonja Benčina, Špela Bibič, Polona Glavan, Iva Jevtič, Jana Jevtović, Katja Kosi, Dejan Srhoj, Rok Vevar
Slovene language editing: Ana Bogataj
English language editing: Jana Jevtović
Design and layout: Niko Lapkovski
With financial support from the projects Dance On, Pass On, Dream On, Life Long Burning (within the framework of the Creative Europe programme), the Slovenian Book Agency, and the City Municipality of Ljubljana.

Volume XXXVI, No. 203–204 (Autumn 2021)

ISSN 1318-0509

 

The outcome of this issue is in a way a continuation of the reflections that began with Bojana Kunst's article The Voice of the Dancing Body (2009), which was published twelve years ago in the sister journal Frakcija. The article is a kind of upgrade of Mladen Dolar's monograph On Voice (Analecta, 2003) (in English, the work was published under the title A Voice and Nothing More (MIT Press, 2006)) through the specific position of the dancing body. Along with the rapid expansion of studies on voice that followed Dolar's monograph, research on voice in choreographic and dance practices gradually expanded, which of course does not mean that contemporary dance did not have a voice in the past, but only that in recent years we have witnessed a specific orientation of some contemporary dance artists towards researching voice and its placement in the field of dance and choreography.

The texts in the issue explore the ambivalent nature of the voice, since “getting a voice,” as Kunst explains, is on the one hand extremely emancipatory, while on the other hand the voice that speaks from within us is always something foreign, which stands out and destabilizes the image of the subject. The present topic foregrounds writings that stem from practice itself and, in many cases, direct experience. The contributions are evidence of the heterogeneity of approaches in the aforementioned domain of research and creation, and with their convincing entries, they themselves offer themselves as an incentive for further study.

“Writing Voices” were presented by: Urban Belina, Dejan Srhoj, Evelin Bizjak, Rok Vevar and Irena Z. Tomažin, Igor Dobričić, Ana Dubljević, Jonathan Burrows, Elina Pirinen, Guy Cools, Bojana Piškur, Jule Flierl, Luka T. Zagoričnik and Edka Jarząb; edited by: guest editor and member of the CoFestival co-curator team Jasmina Založnik, together with co-editors of the Maska magazine Pia Brezavšček and Rok Bozovičar.