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| العنوان: |
Choreographing Multiraciality: Mixed-Race Methods in North American Contemporary Dance. |
| المؤلفون: |
Shaffer, Miya |
| المصدر: |
Arts (2076-0752); Feb2024, Vol. 13 Issue 1, p10, 16p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
DANCE, MULTIRACIALITY, CHOREOGRAPHY, MULTIRACIAL people, STAND-up comedy, TELEVISION talk programs, STEREOTYPES |
| مستخلص: |
Multiracialism, or the concept of "mixed-race", remains a key racial discourse within twenty-first-century North American societies. Scholarly and mainstream studies of multiracial people often highlight the function of speech in theorizing mixed-race experiences, where interviews or other first-person narratives resist racialized stereotypes and express complex multiracial identities. Yet these studies often overlook the body as a comparable analytical site, ignoring how the body's mobilization—in dance, choreography, and everyday actions—might further nuance mixed-race subjecthood. My article emphasizes experimental dance and choreography as alternative methods for imagining multiracial subjects, where these body-based approaches reject both stereotypical depictions of multiracial people in mainstream media and "transparent" representations in interviews. Drawing on the concept of "opacity," which describes unknowable, illegible difference, I propose that experimental dance enables the expression of "opaque" multiracial subjectivities. This article then offers a choreographic analysis of Glenn Potter-Takata's Yonsei f*ck f*ck, an experimental dance that produces opacities for its performers, who are of mixed Japanese heritage. Through movement scores, stand-up comedy, and a re-created "late-night" talk show, the dance invites audiences to move beyond the desire to recognize, categorize, and "know" the mixed-race Asian American performer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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