When Is Contemporary Dance?

Kwan, SanSan

doi:10.1017/s0149767717000341

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“…Despite its novelty and intense popularity on both the physical space and cyberspace, K-pop fandom and activities have yet to be actively angulated within the shifting scholarly positions on the agency and value of prosumer-oriented co-creative labor. In some respects, K-pop fits into the sensationalized images of fanatical consumers fuelling an industry of exploited performers of manufactured performances (Connelly, 2017; Kwan, 2017, pp. 42–43; Oh, 2015; G.…”

Section: K-pop Dromospheric Choreographic Cover-dances and Creative Rmentioning

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K-pop boot camps in choreographic co-creative labor

Khiun

Lee

2020

Global Media and China

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The worldwide popularity of South Korean popular music has generated global consumer demand for variations of its grueling training regimen offered by talent recruitment agencies and dance studios. Using the case study of the South Korean popular music boot camps offered by the Australia-based agency, The Academy, this article seeks to frame these performative engagements along more cosmopolitan notions of choreographic co-creative labor. In contrast to the highly competitive South Korean popular music machinery, participation in these boot camps can be characterized as affective prosumer “free labor” from trainees from diverse backgrounds, abilities, and motivations. Through programs that enable trainees to “re-present,” “re-organize,” and “re-interpret” K-pop dance performances, studios like The Academy leverage on K-pop’s popularity and its training pedagogies so as to open new fields of creative labor. Accompanying such openings are the strengthening transnational connectivities in the activities of The Academy in intensifying existing multicultural networks in Australia. The studio is also part of a more cosmopolitan platform in orienting traditionally Eurocentric mainstream Australia culturally toward the Asia-Pacific region. By further democratizing the dance abilities of K-pop choreographies, initiatives like The Academy serve in enlarging creative labor in transnational rhythmic communities.

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Section: K-pop Dromospheric Choreographic Cover-dances and Creative Rmentioning

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K-pop boot camps in choreographic co-creative labor

Khiun

Lee

2020

Global Media and China

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“…The “Whet?? ?” dance was a contemporary dance, specifically what has been referred to as contemporary commercial dance: An “emotive, dramatic, and virtuosic” ensemble of dance styles and techniques (Kwan, , p. 42). Though still including technical elements and challenging moves, in contemporary dance the focus is not on the center of the body as in classical dance to allow innovative manipulation of the body.…”

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Ethnodance and identity: Black students representing science identities in the making

Chappell

Varelas

2019

Science Education

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We explored how arts-based practices, specifically what we define as ethnodance informs the study of science identity. We present a theoretical argument supported by an empirical illustration of how ethnodance offers Black youth with dance identities a medium to narrate evolving science identities, communicating meanings, interactions, and emotions, and to construct identities further as reified artifacts of participating in science classroom communities. The theoretical argument frames dance as an embodied narrative, identity construction as an ongoing process with interactional and affective commitments, and Black Dances as venues of Black bodies' expressivity of the brilliance, competence, and creativity of Black people. The empirical illustration focuses on Black students in an urban high school choreographing a dance performance to capture their science identity construction transitioning from biology and moving through physics. The students' semiotic choices communicated the experienced (dis) connection between self and science; ballet, lyrical, and contemporary dances represented experiences challenging their position within science, and a Black Dance, majorette, experiences affirming their place or creating a bridge.Majorette offered students a sense of cultural solidarity, symbolic of their collective overcoming of obstacles faced, frustration, and alienation felt at the beginning of physics, and joy of rising above the struggle.

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“…This is in contrast to other contemporary dance practices marked by identifiers of cultural-racial particularity, such as African, Asian, etc. For a discussion on political implications in the use of “contemporary” in concert, commercial, and “world” dance, see Kwan (2017).…”

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Democracy's Body, Neoliberalism's Body: The Ambivalent Search for Egalitarianism Within the Contemporary Post/Modern Dance Tradition

Reynoso¹

2019

Dance Res. J.

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This article analyzes ways in which dance as labor and artist as a specific subjectivity relate to the material conditions of their production within contexts shaped by neoliberal notions of freedom, ideologies of liberal democracy, and the logic of global capitalism. The discussion focuses on contemporary dance practices that embody some of these values by striving to be more egalitarian, thus giving performers more agency in how they participate in creative processes that lead to a collectively created performance work. This analysis emphasizes the tension between these collaborative practices and modes of producing and distributing financial and symbolic, as well as cultural forms of capital in ways that resist and/or reproduce exploitative aspects of capitalism. Examining some works by Yvonne Rainer, Xavier Le Roy, and Tino Sehgal enables the theorization of the entrepreneurial artistic archive as well as practices of crediting creative labor in relation to notions of capital, ownership, collaboration, and consequently who dance-art makers and performers become as politically progressive artists.

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When Is Contemporary Dance?

Cited by 23 publications

References 21 publications

K-pop boot camps in choreographic co-creative labor

K-pop boot camps in choreographic co-creative labor

Ethnodance and identity: Black students representing science identities in the making

Democracy's Body, Neoliberalism's Body: The Ambivalent Search for Egalitarianism Within the Contemporary Post/Modern Dance Tradition

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