In circles leading on – folkdance, a choreographic intersection

Andreas Berchtold

This research departs from a study, building on the relation between one’s own embodied cultural constitution and someone’s comprehension of the practice. Dealing with questions on what approaches that are needed to make different perceptions of dance the possibility to contribute to the development of the field. Placing a dancing body in center of the research gives rise to the position which yields the required perspectives. When dancing, the stance of representing a genre is assumed, taken and given in a concrete way, in this case – folkdance within contemporary contexts. Moving in circles through references from different discourses, and by allowing these circles to intersect in practice, the work achieves its critical point of view.

Reference circles

George-Graves, Nadine. 2010. Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working it Out. Madison. Wis: University of Wisconsin Press.

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