Choreographing Movement as ‘Double Critique’ in Bouchra Ouizguen’s ‘Corbeaux’
Rachid Belghiti
Abstract:This article analyzes movement in and around Bouchra Ouizguen’s dance performance ‘Corbeaux’ (2014) through the conceptual framework of Abdelkabir Khatibi’s ‘double critique’. The article explores how ‘Corbeaux’ choreographs its reenactment of the hal Sufi traditional head movement and how this choreography epistemically emerges as a ‘double critique’ or a crisis of both the immobilizing sacred pastness of this movement and the Orientalist constructions when dance and the dancing body are relentlessly subjecte… Show more
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