Dance After Lockdown: Living with Paradox

• Main Authors: Ellis, Simon, McLelland, Rowan, Cisneros, Rosemary Kostic
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: COVID-19; contemporary dance; economics; eco-system; freelance; pandemic; universal basic income (UBI); precarity
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss40/10; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/2020/viewcontent/KK_2040_2C_202023_2010_20Forum_20Kritika_20on_20Dancing_20Democracy_20in_20a_20Fractured_20World_20__20Ellis.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This writing explores the experiences of people in the UK’s contemporary dance sector during the COVID-19 pandemic.1 It draws on qualitative data from a small research project—Dance after Lockdown—to examine how that sector understands their work, and how the language and ideology of the creative in...