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The links between politics and dance appears as one of the hot topics in the performing arts today. Before I try to answer that theme, I will think this very phenomenon, introducing some epistemic and social frameworks within which we speak and can speak about politics when speak about contemporary performance and art in general. Then I will continue with the characteristic modalities of politicality that I register on the actual international dance scene. At the very beginning I want to emphasize that my focus here won't be a particular politics of contemporary dance, but the politicality as the aspect of an artwork or art practice that addresses the ways it acts and intervenes in public sphere, in regard to discussions and conflicts around: the subjects and objects that perform in it; the arrangement of positions and powers among them; the "distribution of the sensible"; and the ideological discourses that shape a common symbolic and sensorial order of society, which affects its material structure and partitions. Therefore, I aim here neither to advocate political art, nor to divide dance performances to socio-politically engaged and l'art-pour-l'art-istic ones. Instead, I would stress an urge to reflect a broad and complex raster of politicality as an aspect that characterizes each and every performance-be it political or apolitical, resistant or complicit, transformative or servile-as a social event that is practiced in public.
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This article identifies two different paths where the amnesia described by Hannah- Arendt and the fragmentation identified by Willie James Jennings of our historical past has distorted how people today view dancing. I set out how the Christian entanglement with colonial powers has impacted on people’s abilities to relate to their bodies, lands and other creatures of the world. I describe how the colonial wound of Western society forms the basis of the loneliness and alienation that totalitarianism inculcates. After this, I examine how people who seek to find a solid tradition of dance within the Western traditions of Christianity often end up in a conundrum when they seek to legitimize the existence of the tradition in the wrong places. I show how seeking roots for Christian dance practices in Jewish customs is often entangled in supersessionist understandings. These arguments are constructed by means of both J. Kameron- Carter’s writings on race and theology and the black political theology outlined by Vincent W. Lloyd. The second-most-often chosen option for creating a dance tradition for Western forms of Christianity is to romanticize the non-Western ‘other’. Using Lindsey Drury’s work, I argue that dancers have perpetuated the interests that seek to possess the ‘other’ by bringing exotic dancers to the Western marketplace. Finally, I describe the third option – more commonly found amongst those critical of Christian tradition – to seek the roots of transformational dance practices in Hellenistic and more esoteric teachings flourishing in the early twentieth century. We run into the often forgotten or neglected stories of renowned dance teachers like Rudolf Laban and Isadora Duncan on this path. By combining esoteric bodily practices, Mother Earth ‘spirituality’ and superior views about race, they not only promoted but laid the foundation for how people were manipulated in the Third Reich. I end by sharing ethnographic stories of resistance towards how these past historical patterns have affected how dance is viewed today. Those exhibiting such resistance are not always consciously aware of the historical roots I have described. However, engagement in contemplative and healing dance practices seems to be forging new and better ways to create community and to live in a connected way with creation and our creatureliness (Hellsten 2021a). The central theme of these practices is to resist the illusion of perfection and control while helping people to listen to and discern the Holy Spirit leading them into a new way of living.
Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement. André Lepecki.
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Dance and politics: Moving beyond boundaries Dana Mills Dance has always been a method of self-expression for human beings. This book examines the political power of dance and especially on its transgressive potential. Focusing on readings of dance pioneers Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham, Gumboots dancers in the gold mines of South Africa, the One Billion Rising movement using dance to protest against gendered violence, dabke in Palestine and dance as protest against human rights abuse in Israel, the Sun Dance within the Native American Crow tribe, the book focuses on moments in which dance transgresses politics articulated in words. Thus the book seeks ways in which reading political dance as interruption unsettles conceptions of politics and dance. The book combines close readings, drawing on the sensibility of the experience of dance and dance spectatorship, and critical analysis grounded in radical democratic theory. Download Dance and politics: Moving beyond boundaries ...pdf Read Online Dance and politics: Moving beyond boundaries ...pdf