Working in my project, many questions came to my mind when
researching the relationship between identity and dance:
-How can we perform identity? Is there a way of
representation?
-How ethnicity and
identity can be negotiated and performed?
-Which is the intersectionality between identity and
culture?
-Could we think of a compartimentalized identity? Are we
made of many components combined together in a mixture that is unique to every
individual?
-How can we express
identity through dance?
-How identity and survival are connected?
-How to understand another culture?
-How to be together in singularity?
-And how migration influenced cultures and history?
-Who creates the boundaries of identity?
-And how are these boundaries established both from within
and without?
-What it means being caught between two cultures?
-How to embody unity and diversity simoultaneously?
-What is the impact of dance in societies? How dance
represent who we are? If dance is a sociological and linguistic phenomena, How do we explore that intersectionality?
-How do I express collective struggles through my body?
-Could dance function as an entry into the realm of
identities?
I think is important to address the specificity that
identity unfolds. In this case, I want to work with another cuban performer.
Someone to share experiences, memories, and then get together and “ live”our
own personal identity through our bodies as a way to understand who we are,
where we come from, which elements define us.
This is an interesting point for me because I will be coming from United
States and “representing” this country but I am actually not from here. I would
like to explore ways to reveal myself and communicate that intimacy to the
other person in order to share my identity and viceversa. How to embody my
identity? What is intimacy in the context of identity? Which specific
situations of my daily life can reveal who we are? Which situations on a cuban
daily life can reveal who the other person is? I could think about food,
sharing a moment of cooking together, walking on the streets, talking to
neighbors in Cuba. Or me sharing ‘mate’, singing argentinian songs, but also
not forgetting my new home that brings me other daily situations that I was
supposed to get used to and now became part of me. These could be some
situations that become encounters to define identity.
The research sources I am using now are the text “Dance,
identity, and identification processes in the postcolonial world” by Andree
Grau, “ Pedagogy of the oppressed” by Paulo Freire and “Dangerous Moves,
politics and Performance in Cuba” by Coco Fusco.
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