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Avoiding Capture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2018

Ramsay Burt
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Abstract

This essay discusses three recent British contemporary dance works that radically rework the spatial relation between audience and performer. These are Nicola Conibere's Assembly (2013), Katye Coe's (To) Constantly Vent (2014), and Alexandrina Hemsley and Jamila Johnson-Small's Voodoo (2017). The essay draws on Henri Lefebvre theorization of the social and political production of space to analyze the kinds of reworkings of space-time that these works enact. It argues that the works evade capture by the apparatuses that maintain normative ideologies, not only those governing the reception of art but also the apparatuses of racial classification.

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logic of visualizationHenri LefebvreNicola ConibereKatye CoeProject Orhythm patternapparatus of capturecontemporary dance

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Dance Research Journal , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , December 2018 , pp. 99 - 119
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Copyright © Dance Studies Association 2018 

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