What is it about?
How people move and appear in public spaces is a reflection of the cultural, religious and socio-political forces in a society. This article, built on an earlier work titled ’Site-Specific Dance: Women in the Middle East’ (2016), addresses the ways in which dance in a public space can support the principles of freedom of expression and gender equality in Tunisia.
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Why is it important?
My work is looking at gender-based oppression and finding ways through movement where the everyday choreography in the public space can be challenged.
Perspectives
I believe that movement creates change. Dancers know that stasis is not possible. Movement flows into transformation. Every political movement needs a body.
Heather Harrington
Kean University
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This page is a summary of: «Get in Your Theatres; the Street is Not Yours»: The Struggle for the Character of Public Space in Tunisia, Nordic Journal of Dance, December 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.2478/njd-2017-0012.
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