‘Cold-War’ era cultural policies on dance and performance on either side of the Iron Curtain

Steriani Tsintziloni

a former dancer, is a dance scholar, lecturer, and curator. She lectures on dance theory and history and was the dance curator for the Athens and Epidaurus Festival (2016–2019). Steriani was awarded a Visiting Artist Fellowship at the Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies (2011). Her monograph Under the shadow of Parthenon. Dance in the Athens Festival of the Cold War (1955–1966) was published (in Greek) in 2022.

Rok Vevar

is a dance historian, curator, and activist, living and working in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2012 he established the Temporary Slovenian Dance Archives in his own apartment, moving it to MSUM (Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova) in Ljubljana in April 2018. Since 2012, he has co-curated the CoFestival, an international festival of contemporary dance (Nomad Dance Academy Slovenija, Kino Šiška) in Ljubljana. In 2020, his new monograph Ksenija, Xenia: Londonska plesna leta Ksenije Hribar 1960–1978 (Ksenija, Xenia: The London Dance Years of Ksenija Hribar 1960–1978) was published. In 2019 he was awarded the Ksenija Hribar Award for his work and in 2020 the Vladimir Kralj Recognition Award for his achievements in the field of dance history and archivism in Slovenia.