Crowded White Spaces: Dîner en Blanc and the Place-Based Contingencies of Choreography
This spatial and contextual approach to the performance of assembly takes Dîner en Blanc, an annual pop-up picnic, as a case study. Ethnographic and choreographic analyses of the 2018 picnic event in Vancouver, Canada, ground a critique of the dynamics of site specificity and host/guest relations th...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0149767723000220 2024-03-03T08:44:25+00:00 Crowded White Spaces: Dîner en Blanc and the Place-Based Contingencies of Choreography Gerecke, Alana 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0149767723000220 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0149767723000220 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Dance Research Journal volume 55, issue 2, page 28-43 ISSN 0149-7677 1940-509X Visual Arts and Performing Arts journal-article 2023 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0149767723000220 2024-02-08T08:28:44Z This spatial and contextual approach to the performance of assembly takes Dîner en Blanc, an annual pop-up picnic, as a case study. Ethnographic and choreographic analyses of the 2018 picnic event in Vancouver, Canada, ground a critique of the dynamics of site specificity and host/guest relations that drive this local expression of a global event. Drawing on a range of performance and decolonial theorists, this place-based movement analysis of the event foregrounds the recolonizing implications of staging aesthetically whitewashed culinary choreographies on the unceded and traditional territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Cambridge University Press Canada Dance Research Journal 55 2 28 43 |
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This spatial and contextual approach to the performance of assembly takes Dîner en Blanc, an annual pop-up picnic, as a case study. Ethnographic and choreographic analyses of the 2018 picnic event in Vancouver, Canada, ground a critique of the dynamics of site specificity and host/guest relations that drive this local expression of a global event. Drawing on a range of performance and decolonial theorists, this place-based movement analysis of the event foregrounds the recolonizing implications of staging aesthetically whitewashed culinary choreographies on the unceded and traditional territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. |
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