Wednesday 16 May 2012

On Dancing

"Even while bringing the BODY into focus, Dance also spatializes, which is to say it foregrounds proxemic relations between characters, spectators, and features of the set. The over-shifting relational axes of space breaks down binary structures that seek to situate Dance as image or identity, and the spectator as observer rather than co-producer of meaning. What Dance 'Does' then, is to draw attention to the constructedness of dramatic representation, which suggests that it can function as an alienating device in the Brechtian sense. This calls for analysis of its ideological encoding, an especially important project in criticism of post-colonial texts"
(Dance, Movement and Resistance Politics) by "Helen Gilbert".
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That's how Dancing is a resisting representation.

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