Leni Van Goidsenhoven, Jonas Rutgeerts, C. Sandahl
{"title":"Differing bodyminds: Cripping choreography","authors":"Leni Van Goidsenhoven, Jonas Rutgeerts, C. Sandahl","doi":"10.1386/chor_00051_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/chor_00051_7","url":null,"abstract":"In this position paper we start to articulate what crip theory can open up for choreography and dance. Crip theory is a critical perspective that analyses, exposes and critiques systems of normalcy in representation and social practices as well as a framework for imagining alternatives based on disabled ways of being in the world. The term crip, short-hand for the derogatory term ‘cripple’, is a re-appropriation by disabled individuals and communities, an act of pride, a demand for inclusion in mainstream life, and, paradoxically, a defiant occupation of the margins. ‘Crip theory and choreography’ was also the topic of a symposium and doctoral school we organized in Belgium in the spring of 2022. The aim of that event was to adopt the contemporary performing arts as a realm for our theorizing in embodied and experiential forms of knowledge-making in research and art practice. Over the course of the symposium and doctoral school, we explored how ‘crip dance’ might produce difference not as a divergence from the norm, but rather as a constant process of differing that opens up multiple ways of relating to body, mind and movement. Inspired by our explorations and encounters during the event, we are guest editing a Special Issue of Choreographic Practices. What we would like to contribute to conversations already happening in this journal is extended exploration of how disability studies and its unruly offspring, crip theory, not only critique the ableist structures that define mainstream dance, but offer alternative possibilities created by non-normative bodyminds.","PeriodicalId":40658,"journal":{"name":"Choreographic Practices","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44160196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Porous choreographies of living and dancing","authors":"Dani Abulhawa","doi":"10.1386/chor_00038_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/chor_00038_2","url":null,"abstract":"This editorial discusses how performance and dance artists and theorists articulate and embody cohabitation and collaboration across geographies, cultural contexts and species. These current practices and concerns within the fields of dance, somatic practice and performance are contextualized\u0000 here in relation to the current global, social and political context; societies living with COVID-19 and with the current or impending effects of the climate crisis. This discussion provides the basis for an introduction to the contributions featured in this edition of Choreographic Practices.","PeriodicalId":40658,"journal":{"name":"Choreographic Practices","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48544883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In the shadows: Phenomenological choreographic writing","authors":"Kirsi Heimonen, Leena Rouhiainen","doi":"10.1386/chor_00042_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/chor_00042_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article introduces a piece of choreographic writing. It likewise discusses the kind of site-specific choreographic process of opening up to what in everyday life is not apparent and left in the shadows that generated the writing. The objective of the choreographic process was to\u0000 allow the impact of the bodily sense of being in contact with an urban location to permeate the authors’ activities in writing. To support this intention, they generated a phenomenologically informed performative score of experimental writing that aims at appreciating the vitality of\u0000 the sensuous. The first part of the submission presents the actual choreographic writing as an evocative piece of choreography that can be read independently of the second part. This latter part contains an exploration into conceptions about choreography and writing. Here, the article draws\u0000 specifically on Jean-Luc Nancy’s insights to articulate the kind of phenomenological approach the authors engaged in. It aims at establishing their artistic process as a phenomenologically oriented method in expanded choreography and argues that the writing they generated exscribes their\u0000 encounter with the Hakaniemi bank in Helsinki on a late December day. It likewise details the significance the body bears on their take on choreographic writing and points towards the manner in which this writing contains traces of the inexpressible and non-thinkable.","PeriodicalId":40658,"journal":{"name":"Choreographic Practices","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49148018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Philosophy of Practising: With Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition, Antonia Pont (2021)","authors":"K. Hawkins","doi":"10.1386/chor_00046_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/chor_00046_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: A Philosophy of Practising: With Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition, Antonia Pont (2021)Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Ltd, 350 pp.,ISBN 978-1-47449-046-7, h/bk, £80.00","PeriodicalId":40658,"journal":{"name":"Choreographic Practices","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46887772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond compás: Stepping outside flamenco’s performance norms","authors":"Alice Blumenfeld","doi":"10.1386/chor_00039_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/chor_00039_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses how flamenco functions as both a noun and an adjective and the interplay between the two in the choreographic process. I use practice as research along with theory and historical analysis to further explore how, as dancer, I initially found and created meaning\u0000 within the cuadro (a setting where a solo dancer performs with live musicians, typically consisting of a guitarist, singer and percussionists, and relying on shared knowledge of flamenco’s structures to accompany the dance and for the dancer to interpret the music). I then go\u0000 on to explain how, as choreographer, improvisation outside the cuadro setting and even outside flamenco music opened new movement possibilities and ways to inform, deepen and step back into flamenco structures in my own work. I show how I created new choreography from combining movement\u0000 knowledge and vocabulary from both inside and outside of the cuadro in choreographed flamenco performances for the theatre.","PeriodicalId":40658,"journal":{"name":"Choreographic Practices","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48238872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Skinner Releasing Technique: A Movement and Dance Practice, Manny A. Emslie (ed.) (2021)","authors":"P. Collinson","doi":"10.1386/chor_00045_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/chor_00045_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Skinner Releasing Technique: A Movement and Dance Practice, Manny A. Emslie (ed.) (2021)Charmouth: Triarchy Press, 300 pp.,ISBN 978-1-91374-329-1, p/bk, £22.50","PeriodicalId":40658,"journal":{"name":"Choreographic Practices","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44468178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deep Sea Dances","authors":"R. Jensen","doi":"10.1386/chor_00043_3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/chor_00043_3","url":null,"abstract":"Ubiquitously used as an analogy for something we do not understand, the deep sea signifies paradox, terror, hope and potential. Largely undiscovered it is inhabited by our ancestors whom we shared paths with until relatively recently, as we moved towards the beach and they towards the\u0000 blackness of primaeval night in which the ocean came into being. This text is a form of visual and written notation for Deep Sea Dances, an improvised group work created across 2015‐17 and performed in Dance Massive Festival, Melbourne 2017. This notation can be interpreted to\u0000 re-enact excerpts from the work and can be built upon and developed into something else. Deep Sea Dances developed out of a desire to create a space to share practice and build a common movement language with a group of sixteen peers, balancing what is theoretical with the social and\u0000 practical and to utilize performance as a means of reflection and a denouncement of political systems that foster binary relations and thinking.","PeriodicalId":40658,"journal":{"name":"Choreographic Practices","volume":"107 30","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41250874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"(Re)positioning, (re)ordering, (re)connecting: A choreographic process of mind and body convergence","authors":"N. Assaf, Heather Harrington","doi":"10.1386/chor_00040_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/chor_00040_1","url":null,"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\u0000 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\u0000 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\u0000 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\u0000 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.","PeriodicalId":40658,"journal":{"name":"Choreographic Practices","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41584961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shared space and between space: Considering Jewishness and race through interspecies dancing1","authors":"Sarah Konner","doi":"10.1386/chor_00041_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/chor_00041_1","url":null,"abstract":"This autoethnographic text describes a dance and personal historical research process during COVID-19 quarantine and Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. As implications of a changing planet and unequal cross-cultural impacts and responsibilities become ever more clear, this research\u0000 explores assimilation into Whiteness in Ashkenazi Jewish American lineage and how that relates to interspecies dancing. What is lost in this story of assimilation? What might interspecies collaborations teach us about relating cross-culturally? Whiteness and Jewishness are considered through\u0000 histories of speaking and losing Yiddish and the role of Jewish dancers in early modern dance in New York. Interviews about Yiddish and assimilation are in dialogue with an improvisational dance practice with a border collie dog (whose ancestors helped colonize the United States). This interspecies\u0000 movement practice and others (including complex evolutionary histories) connect to biologist Donna Haraway and anthropologist Anna Tsing for insights about collaboration across differences. In thematically bringing Jewishness into performance practice, this research unravels layers of resistance,\u0000 privilege and present racial inequities. The text looks to Audre Lorde and civil rights activist Eric K. Ward for coalition building practices: finding connection and finding ourselves are to be changed by our encounters without losing ourselves in the process.","PeriodicalId":40658,"journal":{"name":"Choreographic Practices","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45910399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}