Dancing toward the light in the dark: COVID-19 changes and reflections on normal from Australia, Ireland and Mexico

Jacobs, Rachael; Finneran, Michael; D’Acosta, Tere Quintanilla

doi:10.1080/10632913.2020.1844836

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“…I sense that the dancers feel guilt for resting and are placing their self-worth on doing well in their careers. At the same time, the pandemic has allowed opportunities for people to pause and reflect on who they are and what they wish to do (Jacobs et al, 2020). Dancers may then have to reinvent how they would like to work in a post-covid-19 world (Heyang & Martin, 2020).…”

Section: Alienationmentioning

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Reconstructing dancer identities

Cosgrave¹

2021

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The Coronavirus (Covid-19) continues to reshape many lives socially, politically, and economically. Choreographic practice, performance, and those involved in dance are also affected in different ways. This article investigates the research question: How might the event of Covid-19 prompt the transformation of freelance dancers’ identities? Through a qualitative narrative inquiry, three freelance contemporary dancers from Aotearoa/New Zealand were interviewed. From a thematic analysis of the data, the theme of alienation and adaptability were drawn out. This research reveals that the event of Covid-19 has caused freelance dancers to question their identity and precarity within their communities and shifted their position to advance a sense of security. The stories shared by the dancers revealed that industry practices and conditions for freelance contemporary dancers in Aotearoa/New Zealand need redevelopment for greater sustainability, relevance and inclusion, which could pave the way for industry changes to occur post-covid-19.

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Section: Alienationmentioning

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Reconstructing dancer identities

Cosgrave¹

2021

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“…Despite stark data showing the extent of ongoing damage to these industries, mention of ‘the word “arts” as it related to any meaningful financial support package’ only appeared after ‘over 100 days’ of the pandemic ( Pacella et al, 2020 : 4). This package was criticised for focusing on boosting larger organisations and events, rather than supporting small to medium-sized organisations ( Caust, 2020 ), entrenching disparities between community artists and ‘large-scale professional arts’ ( Jacobs et al, 2020 : 4). Critics of the financial support package have also remarked that the government shifted its language to the ‘creative economy’, instead of ‘arts and culture’, reflecting a broader focus on financial value ( Caust, 2020 ).…”

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Creative arts workers during the Covid-19 pandemic: Social imaginaries in lockdown

Flore¹,

Hendry

Gaylor

2021

Journal of Sociology

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The arts and creative industries are among those most affected by government measures to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. This article discusses a qualitative survey study, open between August and October 2020, with creative arts workers living in Victoria, Australia. The study explored experiences of disruptions to work and broader impacts on daily lives during the pandemic. In this article, we examine how participants discuss their work and circulate pre-existing and create new intensified social imaginaries of a devalued and ignored arts sector in Australia. Our analysis points to how people understand their lives, work and communities amidst a global pandemic in relation to and entangled with particular social imaginaries of the creative arts.

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To Perform or Not to Perform: Exploring the Impact of COVID‐19 on Aotearoa New Zealand's Performing Arts Sector

Nairn,

Annabell,

Matthews

et al. 2024

Journal of Creative Behavior

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This article explores narratives of how COVID‐19 impacted the performing arts sector, by drawing on interviews with creative workers in Aotearoa New Zealand. Despite the late exposure to COVID‐19 and the adoption of an elimination approach that afforded opportunities for performing arts to continue to varying extents between 2019 and 2022, cultural workers in Aotearoa New Zealand, as with their overseas counterparts, experienced significant and consequential disruption to their working conditions and lives. Taking into account the specificity of Aotearoa New Zealand's performing arts sector and the government's COVID‐19 response, the article contributes to the empirical examination of COVID‐19 experiences by teasing out narratives of impact from cultural workers. The thematic analysis demonstrates how participants presented (1) COVID‐19 as responsible for financial, emotional, and psychological costs, (2) framed opportunities arising from disrupted working conditions and wage subsidy as “silver linings,” (3) were reliant on digital technologies, and (4) constructed the return to “normal” as marked by the COVID‐19 “aftermath.” The article argues that uniting these perceptions and articulations of impact is the ongoing (re)evaluations of risks and benefits by cultural workers of working conditions that predate COVID‐19.

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Dancing toward the light in the dark: COVID-19 changes and reflections on normal from Australia, Ireland and Mexico

Cited by 11 publications

References 14 publications

Reconstructing dancer identities

Reconstructing dancer identities

Creative arts workers during the Covid-19 pandemic: Social imaginaries in lockdown

To Perform or Not to Perform: Exploring the Impact of COVID‐19 on Aotearoa New Zealand's Performing Arts Sector

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