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Every Saturday evening during the winter and spring of 2010, in one of the remaining buildings of the Belgrade Old Fair, a group of men and women danced the tango. They performed the dance macabre in a rather bizarre ambient, since behind the term Old Fair, which at a first glance might seem to represent the important urban topos, the central city slum has been hidden for decades. Although in close vicinity to the biggest shopping mall and a bridge, crossed on a daily basis by hundreds of thousands of citizens, this space was half hidden behind tall trees, and thus invisible for the majority of Belgrade’s inhabitants. The tango dancers were among its rare visitors.
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Pintar, O.M. (2011). Delusion and Amnesia: Ideology and Culture in Nedić’s Serbia. In: Ramet, S.P., Listhaug, O. (eds) Serbia and the Serbs in World War Two. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230347816_5
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