Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1017/s0149767723000268
yaTande Whitney V. Hunter
This article explores the Ring Shout as a corporeal conjuring of Black-togetherness. Theoretically, I embrace the notion of assembly in ways that offer new comprehension around both implicit and explicit modes of embodiment in constant play within Black cultural modes. I turn to the research of Katrina Hazzard-Donald, Dr. Yvonne Daniel, and M. Jacqui Alexander for theoretical grounding regarding diasporic Afro-spiritualities, while artists such as Talley Beatty, Reggie Wilson, and Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah (formerly Christian Scott) provide landmarks for the artistic and aesthetic discourse of the text. I introduce a concept, AfrOist, as a navigation through and toward a recontextualization of centralized Africanist tendencies. With this shift, cultural inheritances are remembered and claimed.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1017/s0149767723000244
Sarah Conn
Contemporary interdisciplinary collaboration practices offer visions of new modes of assembly. This article traces a curatorial model of interdisciplinary collaboration, exploring how artists activate curation as a methodology of creation. I refer specifically to the creative practice of the award-winning Queer trans/mogrifying multidisciplinary artist and futurist Sage Ni'Ja Whitson, and their series The Unarrival Experiments. I reflect on Whitson's curatorial practice as a sacred methodology rooted in Yorùbá cosmologies, theatrical jazz aesthetic, and concepts of dark matter, superfluidity, and unarrival. I trace how Whitson's use of curatorial frameworks supports ease in the impossible, builds layers of multiplicity and simultaneity, resists institutional hegemony and power structures, and crafts systems of queer kinship and care for communities, ancestors, and futures. I outline the criteria of coexistence through which they imbue curatorial practices into their collaborations, generating what I describe as a “third space.” For Whitson, this fertile space of sustained difference is a portal to an alternate institution of darkness, interdependent sovereignty, and superfluidity. I conclude by unfolding the possibilities of Whitson's third space as a forward-facing methodology of how to move through the impossible together and envision new collective futures.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-14DOI: 10.1017/s0149767723000220
Alana Gerecke
This spatial and contextual approach to the performance of assembly takes Dîner en Blanc, an annual pop-up picnic, as a case study. Ethnographic and choreographic analyses of the 2018 picnic event in Vancouver, Canada, ground a critique of the dynamics of site specificity and host/guest relations that drive this local expression of a global event. Drawing on a range of performance and decolonial theorists, this place-based movement analysis of the event foregrounds the recolonizing implications of staging aesthetically whitewashed culinary choreographies on the unceded and traditional territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
这种空间和环境的组合方式以一年一度的弹出式野餐活动“ner en Blanc”为例进行了研究。对2018年加拿大温哥华野餐活动的民族志和舞蹈分析,对场地特殊性和主客关系的动态进行了批判,这些动态推动了这种全球活动的本地表达。借鉴一系列表演和非殖民化理论家的观点,这个基于地点的运动分析强调了在Squamish、musquam和Tsleil-Waututh第一民族的未被割让的传统领土上进行美学粉饰的烹饪编排的再殖民化含义。
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Pub Date : 2023-08-17DOI: 10.1017/s0149767723000219
A. Kimmel
Motivated by Melissa Ziad's balletic protest within Algeria's Hirak demonstrations, this article recuperates a distinction between the right to assembly and the right to free speech, constitutional guarantees blurred under contemporary rhetoric of association. By applying methods of dance studies to legal interpretation, it shifts crowd theory away from an anxiety of touch toward a copresence that allows for constituent power of the people to be reclaimed. Therefore, it intervenes within a broader discourse of the legal humanities that privileges the logocentric over embodied ways of knowing.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1017/S0149767723000256
Jessica Rajko
{"title":"DUNHAM'S DATA: KATHERINE DUNHAM AND DIGITAL METHODS FOR DANCE HISTORICAL INQUIRY by Kate Elswit, Harmony Bench, Antonio Jimenez-Mavillard, Tia-Monique Uzor, and Takiyah Nur Amin https://www.dunhamsdata.org/","authors":"Jessica Rajko","doi":"10.1017/S0149767723000256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0149767723000256","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44926,"journal":{"name":"DANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL","volume":"36 1","pages":"98 - 101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139352605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1017/S0149767723000232
Cindy García
{"title":"STAGING BRAZIL: CHOREOGRAPHIES OF CAPOEIRA by Ana Paula Höfling. 2019. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. 225 pp., 40 illustrations. $8.25 paper, ISBN: 9780819578815","authors":"Cindy García","doi":"10.1017/S0149767723000232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0149767723000232","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44926,"journal":{"name":"DANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL","volume":"150 1","pages":"96 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139352878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1017/s0149767723000323
{"title":"DRJ volume 55 issue 2 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s0149767723000323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0149767723000323","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44926,"journal":{"name":"DANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL","volume":"76 1","pages":"f1 - f5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139352217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1017/S0149767723000207
Raquel Monroe
{"title":"FEELS RIGHT: BLACK QUEER WOMEN AND THE POLITICS OF PARTYING IN CHICAGO by Kemi Adeyemi. 2022. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 176 pp.","authors":"Raquel Monroe","doi":"10.1017/S0149767723000207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0149767723000207","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44926,"journal":{"name":"DANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL","volume":"94 1","pages":"94 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139352403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1017/s0149767723000335
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Pub Date : 2023-07-17DOI: 10.1017/s0149767723000189
Daphna Ben-Shaul
This article explores the cultural figure of the ropedancer and focuses on the influential performance of Philippe Petit in two of his walks. The high-wire walker plays a significant role discussed within three frameworks: a philosophical and urban discussion offering interwoven perspectives; the iconic walk at the World Trade Center in New York in 1974; and Petit's high-wire crossing performed in Jerusalem's geopolitical context in 1987. Ropedancing is an “abyssal choreography”—a movement at a high altitude above the depth with maximum control on the verge of losing balance. As related to specific walks, this movement embodies a dialectic agency. It transcends local narratives but empowers and critically exposes them. It requires meticulous discipline and unbounded creativity, and it is linked to oppositional positions between which the ropedancer can unsettlingly fluctuate. This movement activates danger or crisis while moving over the abyss as a vector connecting places, times, and events.
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