- The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Tracking the Political Economy of Dance
- Dance and/as Competition in the Privately Owned US Studio
- Racing in Place: A Meta-Memoir on Dance Politics and Practice
- Epiphanic Moments: Dancing Politics
- Performing Collectively
- Urban Choreographies: Artistic Interventions and the Politics of Urban Space
- The Politics of Speculative Imagination in Contemporary Choreography
- Toward a Choreo-Political Theory of Articulation
- Rehearsing In-Difference: The Politics of Aesthetics in the Performances of Pina Bausch and Jérôme Bel
- Problem as a Choreographic and Philosophical Kind of Thought
- The Politics of Perception
- The Politics of Speaking about the Body
- Dancing Disabled: Phenomenology and Embodied Politics
- Of Corporeal Rewritings, Translations, and the Politics of Difference in Dancing
- Planning for Death’s Surprise: Pina Bausch and Merce Cunningham
- Dancing D-Day
- Dance and Politics in China: Interculturalism, Hybridity, and the ArtsCross Project
- Between the Cultural Center and the Villa : Dance, Neoliberalism, and Silent Borders in Buenos Aires
- Modern Dance in the Third Reich, Redux
- The Micropolitics of Exchange: Exile and Otherness after the Nation
- <i>Black Swan</i>, White Nose
- Brown in Black and White: José Limón Dances The Emperor Jones
- Switch: Queer Social Dance, Political Leadership, and Black Popular Culture
- Politics of Fake It!: Janez Janša Interviewed by Janez Janša
- Identity Politics and Political Will: Jeni LeGon Living in a Great Big Way
- Dancing in the Here and Now: Indigenous Presence and the Choreography of Emily Johnson/Catalyst and DANCING EARTH
- Dance and Eastern Europe: Contemporary Dance in the Time of Transition
- Domesticating Dance: South Asian Filmic Bodies Negotiating New Moves in Neoliberalism
- Is It OK to Dance on Graves?: Modernism and Socialist Realism Revisited
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
Moving from the political margins toward a black mainstream, many African American social dances often emerge in queer communities of color. This chapter explores politically embodied consequences and affects of queer social dances that enjoy concentrated attention outside their originary communities. J-setting, voguing, and hand-dancing—a form of queer dance popular in the 1970s–1980s—offer sites to consider the materialization of queer black aesthetic gesture, in dances that redefine gender identities and confirm fluid political economies of social dance and motion. These queer dances simultaneously resist and reinscribe gender conformity in their aesthetic devices; they also suggest alternative histories of black social dance economies in which queer creativity might be valued as its own end. Ultimately, the chapter suggests a haunting presence of queers-of-color aesthetic imperatives within political mobilizations of black social dance, continually—and ironically—conceived as part and parcel of rhetorics of liberation and freedom of movement.
Keywords: black, vogueing, J-Setting, hand-dancing, black social dance, queer dance
Thomas F. DeFrantz is Professor of Dance and African American Studies at Duke University. He is the director of SLIPPAGE: Performance, Culture, Technology, a research group that explores emerging technology in live performance applications, in residence at Duke University. An author, director, and performer, he co-convenes the working group Black Performance Theory, the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance, and the Choreography and Corporeality of the International Federation for Theatre Research. He acts as President of the Society of Dance History Scholars. Thomas DeFrantz is Professor of Dance and African American Studies at Duke University.
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- The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Tracking the Political Economy of Dance
- Dance and/as Competition in the Privately Owned US Studio
- Racing in Place: A Meta-Memoir on Dance Politics and Practice
- Epiphanic Moments: Dancing Politics
- Performing Collectively
- Urban Choreographies: Artistic Interventions and the Politics of Urban Space
- The Politics of Speculative Imagination in Contemporary Choreography
- Toward a Choreo-Political Theory of Articulation
- Rehearsing In-Difference: The Politics of Aesthetics in the Performances of Pina Bausch and Jérôme Bel
- Problem as a Choreographic and Philosophical Kind of Thought
- The Politics of Perception
- The Politics of Speaking about the Body
- Dancing Disabled: Phenomenology and Embodied Politics
- Of Corporeal Rewritings, Translations, and the Politics of Difference in Dancing
- Planning for Death’s Surprise: Pina Bausch and Merce Cunningham
- Dancing D-Day
- Dance and Politics in China: Interculturalism, Hybridity, and the ArtsCross Project
- Between the Cultural Center and the Villa : Dance, Neoliberalism, and Silent Borders in Buenos Aires
- Modern Dance in the Third Reich, Redux
- The Micropolitics of Exchange: Exile and Otherness after the Nation
- <i>Black Swan</i>, White Nose
- Brown in Black and White: José Limón Dances The Emperor Jones
- Switch: Queer Social Dance, Political Leadership, and Black Popular Culture
- Politics of Fake It!: Janez Janša Interviewed by Janez Janša
- Identity Politics and Political Will: Jeni LeGon Living in a Great Big Way
- Dancing in the Here and Now: Indigenous Presence and the Choreography of Emily Johnson/Catalyst and DANCING EARTH
- Dance and Eastern Europe: Contemporary Dance in the Time of Transition
- Domesticating Dance: South Asian Filmic Bodies Negotiating New Moves in Neoliberalism
- Is It OK to Dance on Graves?: Modernism and Socialist Realism Revisited
- Index