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Contemporary Black Choreo-Performers: Intersecting Bodies, Dis/Placement, Race

Einypourfazli, Razieh (2022) Contemporary Black Choreo-Performers: Intersecting Bodies, Dis/Placement, Race. [MRP]

Item Type: MRP
Creators: Einypourfazli, Razieh
Abstract:

This major research paper investigates “dis/placement” as an aesthetic strategy and probes into how it intersects with race, memory, and trauma. The text problematizes the position of racialized, displaced subjects through the perspective of those who deal with this experience continuously – including myself. The case-studies, Okwui Okpokwasili and Kettly Noël, use a variety of methods to reflect their experience of displacement: from autobiography, narrative, and memoir to utilizing their body and identity in explicit ways. They benefit from an emerging artistic genre that I call “choreo-performance”; a kinetic medium that combines choreography and performance to engage audiences affectively and empathetically.

Date: 11 May 2022
Uncontrolled Keywords: Performance, dance, race, dislocation, Blackness
Divisions: Graduate Studies > Contemporary Art, Design and New Media Art Histories
Date Deposited: 11 May 2022 19:24
Last Modified: 11 May 2023 06:40
URI: https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/3728

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