Nomadic Making: Enacting difference through collaborative performance practice. Issue 1 (1st July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Brown, Natalie Garrett
• Is Part Of: Choreographic practices. Volume 11:Issue 1(2020)
• Page Start: 149
• Page End: 161
• Publication Date: 2020-07-01
• Subjects: Dance -- Philosophy -- Periodicals; Dance -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Choreography -- Periodicals; 792.82
• DOI: 10.1386/chor_00016_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2040-5669

Abstract

This article considers how scored, collaborative performance practice enacts Braidotti's Nomadic subject and disrupts advanced capitalism's suture of object and subject formation (Lepecki), thereby offering a means for posthumans to 'become imperceptible' (Braidotti after Deleuze). Collaborative performance practice, I argue offers a lived experience of the non-unitary subject and political potential of pure difference. I suggest also that 'spectator studies' (Melrose) reconsiders its focus on object over process by arguing that choreographic knowledge resides not in the event or the performance score but the processes of assemblage and in-between relations of people and practices (Manning).