PROGRESS IN DANCE GEOGRAPHY: FROM CONTROVERSIES OF NON-REPRESENTATIONAL THEORY TO PRACTICES IN CREATIVE GEOGRAPHY
HUANG Wei1,2, LI Fan1,2,3, YANG Jian-bo1,2
1. Tourism Faculty, Foshan Institution of Science and Technology, Foshan 528000, China;
2. Center of Local Culture and Tourism Development, Foshan Institution of Science and Technology, Foshan 528000, China;
3. Guangzhou Base for Essential Humanistic Social Science Research, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
Abstract Dance was a primary case based on which non-representational theory (NRT) was first built, and as a way of expressing and practicing specific thought-action, it facilitates deeper investigations into the potentials of body and movement in understanding and creating expressions. Doubts over NRT logics and feasibility have urged geographers to rethink of the expressiveness of the body, meanings in mobilities and the emotional nature of spatial experience. With the performing body becoming a subject of analysis and choreography a new NRT concept and method in geographical research, the social inter-disciplinary practice and instrument of dance had received more and more attention. The paper attempts to present a full picture of the two major turns which researches in dance geography have been making against the background of the NRT controversies. First, how dance has transformed from a geographical topic of body, performativity and identity into a practice and method for exploring rhythm, sense and space making. Second, how research in dance geography which used to be critical culture-political studies has become practices in performing art and creative geography. It is suggested that non-representational thinking has the potential in solving problems that emerged in open-ended practices possibly existent outside representation, diversifying adaptive dimensions of emotion for practice, and extending analysis of materialist discourses entwined with emotion.
HUANG Wei,LI Fan,YANG Jian-bo. PROGRESS IN DANCE GEOGRAPHY: FROM CONTROVERSIES OF NON-REPRESENTATIONAL THEORY TO PRACTICES IN CREATIVE GEOGRAPHY[J]. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2022, 37(6): 12-19.
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