(Re)positioning, (re)ordering, (re)connecting: A choreographic process of mind and body convergence

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Choreographic Practices Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI:10.1386/chor_00040_1

N. Assaf, Heather Harrington

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Abstract

Nadra Assaf from Lebanon and Heather Harrington from the United States are dancers, educators, scholars and choreographers who believe in the power of the body for communication, intersectional feminism and sociopolitical movement. They came together, virtually and in real life, to create hybrid performances investigating what it means to be a female in the twenty-first century through the lens of their respective countries utilizing a feminist social constructionist perspective. They initiated new ways to choreograph birthed out of who they are, their geographical separation and their sociopolitical environments. Engaging in autoethnography, they analyse their creative process and choreographic work to extrapolate observations from personal and social spheres. Their theoretical application examines connections, reflections and interactions through an intersectional feminist lens. Data collection comes from the retro(in)spection of journals, video recordings, e-mail correspondences, recordings of conversations and interviews with viewers of their work. Their practice-led research opens doors to Jungian dream analytic tools and Barad’s diffraction theory to help reveal meanings behind their choreographic work. They believe their choreographic strategies can be applied outside of their unique collaboration, specifically relating to the present interconnected virtual world thus revealing new ways of creating.

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(重新)定位、(重新)排序、(重新)连接:一种身心融合的舞蹈过程

来自黎巴嫩的Nadra Assaf和来自美国的Heather Harrington是舞者、教育工作者、学者和编舞家，他们相信身体在沟通、跨部门女权主义和社会政治运动方面的力量。他们在虚拟和现实生活中走到一起，创造了混合表演，通过各自国家的视角，利用女权主义社会建构主义的视角，调查21世纪女性的意义。他们开创了新的编舞方式，这些编舞源于他们的身份、地理分离和社会政治环境。从事民族志研究，他们分析自己的创作过程和舞蹈作品，从个人和社会领域推断观察结果。它们的理论应用通过交叉的女权主义视角考察了联系、反思和互动。数据收集来自对期刊、视频记录、电子邮件通信、对话记录以及对其作品观众的采访的回顾。他们以实践为导向的研究为Jungian梦境分析工具和Barad的衍射理论打开了大门，以帮助揭示他们舞蹈作品背后的意义。他们相信，他们的舞蹈策略可以在他们独特的合作之外应用，特别是与当前互联的虚拟世界相关，从而揭示新的创作方式。

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Choreographic Practices DANCE-

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期刊介绍： Choreographic Practices operates from the principle that dance embodies ideas and can be productively enlivened when considered as a mode of critical and creative discourse. This double-blind peer-reviewed journal provides a platform for sharing choreographic practices, critical inquiry and debate. Placing an emphasis on processes and practices over products, this journal seeks to engender dynamic relationships between theory and practice, choreographer and scholar, so that these distinctions may be shifted and traversed. Choreographic Practices will encompass a wide range of methodologies and critical perspectives such that interdisciplinary processes in performance can be understood as they intersect with other territories in the arts and beyond (for example, cultural studies, psychology, phenomenology, geography, philosophy and economics). In this way, the journal will open up the nature and scope of dance practice as research and draw together diverse bodies of knowledge and ways of knowing to illuminate an emerging and vibrant research area.