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Heat and Alterity in Contemporary Dance: South-South Choreographies

Heat and Alterity in Contemporary Dance: South-South Choreographies

Chatterjea, Ananya

Hardcover

Series: New World Choreographies

Business GeneralDanceTechnical Theater

ISBN10: 3030439119
ISBN13: 9783030439118
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Oct 29 2020
Pages: 289
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book argues that contemporary dance, imagined to have a global belonging, is vitiated by euro-white constructions of risk and currency that remain at its core. Differently, the book reimagines contemporary dance along a South-South axis, as a poly-centric, justice-oriented, aesthetic-temporal category, with intersectional understandings of difference as a central organizing principle. Placing alterity and heat, generated via multiple pathways, at its center, it foregrounds the work of South-South artists, who push against constructions of tradition and white-centered aesthetic imperatives, to reinvent their choreographic toolkit and respond to urgent questions of their times. In recasting the grounds for a different global stage, the argument widens its scope to indicate how dance-making both indexes current contextual inequities and broader relations of social, economic, political, and cultural power, and inaugurates future dimensions of justice.

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