Choreographing the North

Settler Affinities in Contemporary Dancemaking

Bridget Cauthery

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Routledge
30 December 2024

Theatre Studies; Choreography

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

Choreographing the North examines 11 contemporary dance pieces that perform northern culture, landscape, folklore, and ideas of ""North.""

The choreographers, from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Luxembourg, Australia, and Argentina, translate their real or imagined journeys to the North for stage and/or screen. This book examines the ways Indigenous subjects and subjectivities have been diminished and/or distorted and considers how that diminishment has fuelled misrepresentation both inside and outside the field of contemporary dance. Where Indigenous presence is represented in dances about the North, it is as discarnate storytellers or “everyman” pastoral figures against backdrops of ice and snow. Indigenous presence is there but it is romanticized, caricatured, flattened. Using these works as moving texts Cauthery argues that, in many regards, these dances are colonizing acts that either ignore or erase the land and people upon which they are based. In analyzing and deconstructing these dances, this book acknowledges the land- and culture-based inheritances embedded in and performed through the works themselves.

This study will be of great interest to students and scholars in dance studies, theatre and performance studies, and cultural studies, as well as those interested in environmental psychology, human geography, and the expanding field of Arctic humanities.

By: Bridget Cauthery
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032861241
ISBN 10: 103286124X
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Pages: 170
Publication Date: 30 December 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Bridget Cauthery is Associate Professor in the Department of Dance, Theatre & Performance Studies at York University, Canada.