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At Home in the World? Mobilizing Inbetweenness in ‘Choreographing Identities’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2010

Abstract

Examining a programme of four solos by Los Angeles experimental dance artists Taisha Paggett, Rebecca Pappas, Christine Suarez and Hana van der Kolk, this short article argues how the choreographed subject-in-motion can be deployed as a political tactic to critique identity as a static category by capitalizing on the flux of moving bodies.

Type
Performance Dossier: Actions of Transfer – Women's Performance in the Americas
Copyright
Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 2010

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NOTES

1 Paraphrased from de Alba's presentation, ‘Of Witch Hunts and Other Furies’, Actions of Transfer, 20 November 2008. Choreographing Identities was presented on 20 November 2008, Royce Hall, University of California, Los Angeles.

2 Author interview with Christine Suarez, 24 October 2009.

3 Van der Kolk has published this text. See ‘All at Once: Dancing ‘The Ridge’ in New York City Parks’, Contact Quarterly, 32, 1 (Winter–Spring 2007), pp. 19–25.