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Support and Following: Re-Visiting Movement Choirs and Public Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2016

Yvonne Hardt
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Abstract

In recent years, the theorization of dance as a critical and political practice has focused on its “resisting” qualities. “Withholding” or “arresting” are terms used to qualify dance as a means for questioning economic and artistic practices. This paper seeks to problematize such a view both by pondering the question of how to conceptualize acting bodies in forming political spaces and by grounding this discussion in a historical comparison. I will re-visit and question my previous research on movement choirs, and propose that the notion of supporting, transmitting, and sharing are strategies commensurately significant with choreographies of protest.

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Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings , Volume 2016 , Fall 2016 , pp. 198 - 207
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Copyright © Yvonne Hardt 2016 

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