Moving Crisis: Dancing as Political Praxis in the Age of the Greek Depression. (2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Banalopoulou, Christina
• Is Part Of: Conference proceedings. (2016)
• Page Start: 9
• Page End: 14
• Publication Date: 2016
• Subjects: Dance -- Congresses; Dance -- History and criticism -- Congresses; Dance criticism -- Congresses; 792.8
• DOI: 10.1017/cor.2016.2
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2049-1255

Abstract

Abstract : In the following paper, I argue that The Greek Depression is the inevitable outcome of synthetic politics that understand difference through identical opposition. It is my contention that dancing, as an embodied praxis embedded within present sociopolitical territories and stratified actualities, envelops potentiality for what Deleuze and Guattari call de-stratification and de-territorialization. Drawing from their work, I call for a neo-realist understanding of the virtual capacities of the dancing body, so we can move history beyond ordinarily conceived politics and introduce not yet imagined body politics that still remain uncaptured.