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Activating Whiteness: Racializing the Ordinary in US American Postmodern Dance

Chaleff, Rebecca·2018·Dance Research Journal

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“Activating Whiteness: Racializing the Ordinary in US American Postmodern Dance” explores how the choreographic turn to postmodernism twisted the trope of racial exclusion from a focus on trained bodies to a focus on ordinary bodies. Analyses of Yvonne Rainer's Trio A (1966) and Trisha Brown's Locus (1975) demonstrate how ordinary bodies shape racially exclusive spaces and activate the biopolitical mechanisms of normalization that their choreography allegedly contests. This essay argues that the spaces activated by the bodies that shaped them carry the physical trace of the performers’ race through the enduring invisibility of whiteness.

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Authors
Chaleff, R.
Corresponding author
Chaleff, Rebecca
Venue
Dance Research Journal
Published
2018-12
Volume
50
Issue
3
Pages
71-84
ISSN
  • 0149-7677 (ISSN-L)
  • 1940-509X
OpenAlex
W2906136230
Cited by
44
References
55
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 5
FWCI
42.57
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Dance Research Journal (publishedVersion)
  • Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Arts and Performance Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Theatre and Performance Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Diversity and Impact of Dance
Keywords
postmodern dance, whiteness, racial exclusion, Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown, locus, normalization, biopolitics, choreography

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