Contamination in Cuban Modern Dance Histories

IF 0.4 2区 艺术学 0 DANCE
Elizabeth Schwall
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This article examines how and why Cuban modern dancers and their scholars cite several white US dancers as forebearers in their nationalistic, anti-imperialistic, and anti-racist dance tradition. I use “contamination” to analyze this complicated topic, which threatens to unfairly center US dancers at Cubans’ expense or to romantically caricature Cubans defying US imperialism with a nationalist hybrid. Multidirectional, indeterminate contamination moves us away from narratives about US culture as a homogenizing force or a vanquished one. Contamination also importantly connotes stink, given that it is a product of imperialism and capitalism bringing far-flung people into close encounters. US contamination in Cuban modern dance histories, then, pushes attention to the shadowy reaches of the unseemly and incongruous—stylistic impurity, structural racism, historiographic neglect, revolutionary disaffection, and failure. Seeing the regrettable provides a fuller picture of the past, including the often-overlooked reality of shared damage and destructibility.
古巴现代舞蹈史上的污染
本文探讨了古巴现代舞者及其学者如何以及为什么引用几位美国白人舞者作为其民族主义、反帝国主义和反种族主义舞蹈传统的祖先。我用“污染”来分析这个复杂的话题,这个话题可能会不公平地以古巴人为代价,以美国舞者为中心,或者浪漫地讽刺古巴人用民族主义混合体反抗美帝国主义。多向的、不确定的污染使我们远离了关于美国文化是一种同质化力量或被征服的力量的叙事。污染也意味着臭味,因为它是帝国主义和资本主义的产物,让遥远的人们近距离接触。因此,美国在古巴现代舞蹈史上的污染将人们的注意力推到了不体面和不协调的阴暗面上——风格上的不洁、结构性的种族主义、历史上的忽视、革命的不满和失败。看到令人遗憾的情况,可以更全面地了解过去,包括经常被忽视的共同损害和可破坏性的现实。
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期刊介绍: Dance Research Journal is the longest running, peer reviewed journal in its field, and has become one of the foremost international outlets for dance research scholarship. The journal carries scholarly articles, book reviews, and a list of books and journals received.
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