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Migratory Choreography and Spaces of Resistance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2020

Karen Vedel
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Abstract

This article examines dance pieces premiered in the Nordic countries at the height of the Syrian refugee crisis in 2015. Framed by the heated debates on current immigration policies, as well as prevailing tropes of a theater of migration and the figure of “the migrant,” the analysis centers on the potential for creating spaces of resistance in the encounter between choreographic performance and spectators. Drawing on analytical concepts such as migratory aesthetics and choreographic agency, the focus is on the interrelationship between the choreographic articulations of experience of migration and their materialization before an audience.

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Mieke Bal“the migrant” migratory aestheticsmigratory choreographymigration tropesRandy Martin and choreographic agencyrefugee crisis and performing artsSara Ahmedspaces of resistance

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Dance Research Journal , Volume 52 , Special Issue 1: In and Out of Norden: Dance and the Migratory Condition , April 2020 , pp. 58 - 70
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Copyright © 2020 Dance Studies Association

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