Overview
- Demonstrates new dramaturgies born of making, performing and witnessing dance in the contested lands of First Peoples
- Contextualises Indigenous-intercultural dance practice within debates on Indigenous recognition and the uneasy challenges of reconciliation
- Highlights the ways Indigenous choreographic resurgence in contested sites can produce neo-expressive choreopolitical dance theatre
Part of the book series: New World Choreographies (NWC)
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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About this book
This book traces an engagement between intercultural dance company Marrugeku and unceded lands of the Yawuru, Bunuba, and Nyikina in the north west of Australia. In the face of colonial legacies and extractive capitalism, it examines how Indigenous ontologies bring ecological thought to dance through an entangled web of attachments to people, species, geologies, political histories, and land. Following choreographic interactions across the multiple subject positions of Indigenous, settler, and European artists between 2012–2016 the book closely examines projects such as Yawuru/Bardi dancer and choreographer Dalisa Pigram’s solo Gudirr Gudirr (2013) and the multimedia work Cut the Sky (2015). Dance in Contested Land reveals how emergent intercultural dramaturgies can mediate dance and land to revision and reorientate kinetics, emotion, and responsibilities through sites of Indigenous resurgence and experimentation.
Reviews
“Swain’s book will undoubtedly make a robust and timely scholarly contribution. It is because I myself write from the perspective of an immigrant to Australia, and in many ways as an outsider … .” (Australasian Drama Studies, Vol. 77, October, 2020)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Rachael Swain is a settler director, dramaturg, and researcher of intercultural and trans-disciplinary dance and performance. She was born on the lands of the Ngāi Tahu in Aotearoa/New Zealand and works between the lands of the Gadigal in Sydney and the lands of the Yawuru in Broome, Australia. Rachael is co-artistic director of Marrugeku with Yawuru/Bardi dancer and choreographer Dalisa Pigram.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dance in Contested Land
Book Subtitle: New Intercultural Dramaturgies
Authors: Rachael Swain
Series Title: New World Choreographies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46551-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46550-6Published: 31 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46553-7Published: 01 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-46551-3Published: 30 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2730-9266
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9274
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 157
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Dance, Performing Arts, Global/International Theatre and Performance, National/Regional Theatre and Performance, Theatre Industry