Backyard activisms: Site dance, permaculture and sustainability

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Choreographic Practices Pub Date : 2019-05-01 DOI:10.1386/CHOR.10.1.113_1

K. Barbour

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Abstract

Site dance performance offers creative opportunities for social and environmental activism. Conversely, social and environmental activism is becoming increasingly performative in seeking to evocatively engage a wide range of community members in both local and global concerns. The following pages focus on how research poetry arising in the creative process of developing performances of site dance may support activism. Drawing on interdisciplinary understandings of permaculture and sustainability and new approaches in narrative representation, the research poetry expresses backyard activism in a complementary manner to the site dance itself. The poetry synthesizes creative journal entries relating to somatic improvisation and choreography with dancers, and interviews and discussions with relevant community members. In Aotearoa New Zealand and in this wider neo-liberal era, urban residents are moving away from backyard gardening and local seasonal produce, and towards consumption of mass-produced, regulated and imported foods. In this context, community activism through performance may support local and alternative food movements and speak back to dominant, sociocultural and political power systems and norms relating to food production, consumption and sustainability.

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后院活动：场地舞蹈、永久文化和可持续发展

现场舞蹈表演为社会和环境活动提供了创造性的机会。相反，社会和环境行动主义正变得越来越具有表演性，试图让广泛的社区成员参与当地和全球关注的问题。以下几页重点讨论了在发展场地舞表演的创作过程中产生的诗歌研究如何支持激进主义。研究诗歌借鉴了对永久文化和可持续性的跨学科理解，以及叙事表现的新方法，以与现场舞蹈本身互补的方式表达了后院的激进主义。诗歌综合了与舞者的身体即兴创作和编舞有关的创造性期刊条目，以及与相关社区成员的采访和讨论。在新西兰奥特亚，在这个更广泛的新自由主义时代，城市居民正在远离后院园艺和当地季节性农产品，转而消费大规模生产、受监管和进口的食品。在这种情况下，通过表演的社区行动主义可以支持当地和替代食品运动，并反击与食品生产、消费和可持续性有关的主导、社会文化和政治权力体系和规范。

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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.