What is it about?
This article examines the process and ethics of creating a dance in a cross-cultural context where for the most part, both the verbal and movement languages were not shared.
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Why is it important?
Even though the dancers and the choreographer came from different artistic and pedagogic practices, they aspired towards a kind of ‘hybridised aesthetic’ (Mitra 2015, xiii), blending cultural references in the body, realizing what they created was unique to them coming together.
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A cross-cultural collaboration encouraged levels of understanding and feeling that went beyond the surface interactions of everyday life and learned choreography because these exchanges required new choreography, and thus new connections.
Heather Harrington
Kean University
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This page is a summary of: Dance matters: dancing in Tunisia, Journal of Theatre Dance and Performance Training, September 2024, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/19443927.2024.2384533.
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