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Christofidou, Andria

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“…They experience an intense process of reflection, through which they recondition their minds to overcome the restrictive knowledge they acquired regarding, among other issues, the Cyprus conflict. Political contemporary dance, as well as other somatic practices, cultivates reflexivity (Christofidou, 2021; Taylor, 2016), and develops dancers’ self-awareness. It substantiates them as political subjects.…”

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“…Artists discussed dance as encouraging reflexivity and inviting audiences to ‘shift’ their perspective, position and mind-set (Haraki, interview). Indeed, performance does this (Christofidou, 2021; Taylor, 2016). When asked about the impact of The RRR Show on audiences, Haraki said,I believe this shifting occurred because even the audience’s concentration means experiencing, reflecting, which take us to the next stage where people try to realize and understand their emotions and then take a position: either bury those emotions or do something with them.…”

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Art heterotopias against hegemonic discourses: Dancing the Cyprus conflict

Christofidou

Milioni

2022

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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We provide an analysis of dance as a practice and an ‘Other’ space; a counter-hegemonic ‘space’, which is affected by the existing social ordering, while simultaneously resisting it. We employ Foucault’s concept of ‘heterotopia’ to analyse dance’s potential to disrupt and deconstruct hegemonic discourses of the past in a conflict-ridden environment such as Cyprus. We analyse three dance works by choreographers who are living and working in Cyprus, and while we focus on the interrelated dimensions of time, space and the (choreographic) subject, we demonstrate how dance may (1) provide a space to problematize the past and recraft the present, (2) enable the re-signification of places of conflict into places of communication and peace and (3) invite artists to reflect on their subjectivities and transform into agents of peace.

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