Dance, Refuge, and Shifting Landscapes of Europe

Because of this unconventional format, the proposed panel will not have a fixed list of papers and presenters, save for Susan Ossman (US-Riverside) and Olga Sezneva (University of Amsterdam) acting as MC’s. Two or three other members of the collective will introduce their own artistic work, and presenters will enact her/his double ‘other’(as an artist/scholar). The session will conclude with a short, interactive performance involving the audience.

Natalie Zervou is a lecturer in the Dance Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on dance practices during the recent sociopolitical and financial crises in Greece and explores the ways that performances engage with the current European refugee crisis and respond to the shifting social landscape. Her choreographic work revolves around questions of belonging and migration and has been presented in Athens (Greece), Surrey (UK), Riverside (US), and Amsterdam (Netherlands).