Introduction: Towards a New Interculturalism?

McIvor, Charlotte

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“…In the last decade, alongside my own, several key and vital publications have positioned new modes of interculturalisms as minoritized subject-driven political and aesthetic movement in theater and dance sectors in the Global North (Knowles 2010; McIvor 2016; McIvor and King 2019; Lei and McIvor 2020). These collective voices have situated the central concerns of power and agency, reclaimed by minoritized artists from the ground up, as integral to the spirit of new interculturalisms, most strongly exemplified in the work on “scalar interculturalism” by Justine Nakase (2019).…”

Section: New Interculturalism Intersectionality and Inter-epistemic Knowledge Makingmentioning

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Unmaking Contact: Choreographic Touch at the Intersections of Race, Caste, and Gender

Mitra¹

2021

Dance Res. J.

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This article interrogates “contact,” understood by Global North contemporary dance discourse as choreography that is mobilized by shifting points of physical touch between two or more bodies, by attending to inherent, and often ignored, power asymmetries that are foundational to such choreographic practices. This “unmaking of contact” is undertaken by deploying the lenses of race, caste, and gender in order to argue for an intersectional, intercultural and inter-epistemic understanding of “choreographic touch” that may or may not involve tactility. It starts by examining contact improvisation (CI), and its now ubiquitous choreographic manifestation of partnering, as an aesthetic that can work in colonizing ways on South Asian dancers who train in primarily solo classical dance forms. The article then moves on to place South Asian bodies, philosophies, and discourses at the heart of its interrogation of choreographic touch, and foregrounds the culturally specific politics and powers that govern them.

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Section: New Interculturalism Intersectionality and Inter-epistemic Knowledge Makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unmaking Contact: Choreographic Touch at the Intersections of Race, Caste, and Gender

Mitra¹

2021

Dance Res. J.

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Introduction: Towards a New Interculturalism?

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Unmaking Contact: Choreographic Touch at the Intersections of Race, Caste, and Gender

Unmaking Contact: Choreographic Touch at the Intersections of Race, Caste, and Gender

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