Lliane Loots
Biographic Data
| ID | 6297760 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lliane Loots |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lliane |
| FAMILY NAME | Loots |
| SIGNATURE | LOOTS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3813-7681 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dancing Climate Activism in Africa
This interview connects South African dance maker Lliane Loots in a conversation with Mozambican choreographer and dancer Rosa Mário. Mário has a history of making dance installation work that challenges the relationship of the female body to the natural world – with a sense of interrogating how dance, the body and the art she makes acts as an intervention toward Climate Justice in Africa. This interview, conducted over a series of email exchange…
Climate justice, gender and activisms
Who are the mythological and hybrid mermaids in our digital and analogue world of contemporary performance narratives?” − a conversation across oceans between two dance makers
This interview sees South African dance maker Lliane Loots in conversation with German-Chinese choreographer Hannah Ma. They have never met, never embraced body to body – they found each other via the digital synopsis of technology and have begun to share the intimacies of dance-making in, through and via digital realms. Ma’s intensely focused use of technology in her performance-making and performative enquires into what it means to be human in …
Voicing the Imaginative in Africa
In what follows we offer three independent interviews with a theatre, dance and visual artist that create dialogues and emergent patterns on what it means to be a black female creative in Africa in
Cultural dialogues for feminist creatives
In one of her seminal works, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Centre (1984), cultural theorist and feminist bell hooks initiated debates around what it means for women, for people of colour, for fem
Embodied storytelling
This article aims to interrogate and investigate the duel engagement with narrative and storytelling as a methodology towards collective and collaborative choreographic processes, and engages narrative as a theory of making meaning. Narrative theorists study how stories help people make sense of the world, while also studying how people make sense of stories. While narrative theory is generally located in the realm of literature and of words, thi…
The autoethnographic act of choreography
This article, which takes on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s (1962) notion of the body as the prime means of knowing the world, starts with the understanding that we have a body, are a body and become a body. These are key concepts for those, like me, who tell stories with the body – the act of choreography. Arguing for the notion of the embodied ‘I’ and interrogating the politics of autoethnography (see, for example, Holman Jones 2005), this article off…
You don’t look like a dancer!”
This briefing interrogates disability and its activist and artistic engagement with (contemporary) dance by looking at the legacies of current integrated/disabled dance programmes and companies Candoco in the United Kingdom and Remix in South Africa. This briefing links feminist engagement with critical dance studies to break male codes of reception and assumed hegemonic ‘correct’ dancing bodies, with disability studies and the politics around re…
Navigating the Male Skin
Body Politics’ and negotiating gender violence and child sexuality through Flatfoot Dance Company's youth arts intervention programmes in KwaZulu-Natal – a case study (2003 – 2013)
This Perspective offers a feminist engagement with the ‘dancing body’ and the languages which it articulates and which it inscribes, in order to examine how social, cultural and political discourse and ideology permeate the use and reading of this body. This is done through the lens of looking at Flatfoot Dance Company's dance education and youth dance development programmes run in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), and their focus on challenging (amo…
Framing “The Politics of Water”
Revisiting gender ecology and eco-feminism
Over the last 12 months, the NTEU has worked with Deakin researchers and NTEU members, Dr Arlene Walker, Dr Lucy Zinkiewicz, Dr Shannon Hyder and Mr Nic Droste, in a study investigating the impact of intimate partner violence (IPV) in the workplace
The body as history and memory
As early as 1980 American radical feminist Dale Spender, set linguistic world on its paternal head with her seminal Man Made Language (1980). Arguing against notion of being a neutral means to explain a pre-given fix 'real' world outside of us, language, as Spender claimed, was a weapon appropriated by patriarchy which diminished range of women's thoughts and being in world. She argued that the liberation of women is rooted in liberation of langu…
Flying the mythical flag of a green and inclusive 2010 Fifa World Cup in KwaZulu-Natal
This Article interrogates the way in which the 2010 FIFA World Cup has acted as a catalyst for meeting the developmental objectives advanced by FIFA and the host country South Africa, and the intended aims of developing a socially inclusive, gender friendly and ‘green’ event. The Article examines these specific developmental ‘goals’ by engaging with two micro case studies in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. These include an encounter …
Unsteady terrain
‘Africa’ or ‘identity’ is not a fixed point. It's not even a territory. It's like walking on sliding sand, it's always slipping. Who you are, is like faith or love. No wonder every now and then, even lovers repeat ‘I love you’. Because sometimes you just don't know. (Faustin Linyekula 2005)
Post-colonial visitations
Working from the personal to the political, this paper begins with a self-interrogation around notions of identity – especially the notion of my contested African identity (Hall 1990) – as it relates to the need to engage a multiplicity of histories and cultures; be this race, ethnicity, nation or gender. This is interrogated within the paradigm of artistic constructions around contemporary dance and choreography within a postapartheid climate. F…
Re-remembering protest theatre in South Africa
All theatre is necessarily political, because all the activities of man are political and theatre is one of them. — Augusto Boal (1979)
The Personal is Political”—Gender in the Context of Apartheid South Africa
This article challenges the notion that race categories and divisions have been Apartheid's greatest crime. It suggests that such an approach hides the complex nature of intersecting struggle within one culturally constructed location—and denies the need to investigate gender oppressions. This article refers to Mhlophe and Pam-Grant as two playwrights who write from the personal to the political context and thus provide a complex microcosm of the…
Legaleye
Colonised Bodies
(1995). COLONISED BODIES: OVERCOMING GENDER CONSTRUCTIONS OF BODIES IN DANCE AND MOVEMENT EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA. South African Theatre Journal: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 51-59
Unsteady terrain
‘Africa’ or ‘identity’ is not a fixed point. It's not even a territory. It's like walking on sliding sand, it's always slipping. Who you are, is like faith or love. No wonder every now and then, even lovers repeat ‘I love you’. Because sometimes you just don't know. (Faustin Linyekula 2005)
Climate justice, gender and activisms
Post-colonial visitations
Working from the personal to the political, this paper begins with a self-interrogation around notions of identity – especially the notion of my contested African identity (Hall 1990) – as it relates to the need to engage a multiplicity of histories and cultures; be this race, ethnicity, nation or gender. This is interrogated within the paradigm of artistic constructions around contemporary dance and choreography within a postapartheid climate. F…
Colonised Bodies
(1995). COLONISED BODIES: OVERCOMING GENDER CONSTRUCTIONS OF BODIES IN DANCE AND MOVEMENT EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA. South African Theatre Journal: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 51-59
The Personal is Political”—Gender in the Context of Apartheid South Africa
This article challenges the notion that race categories and divisions have been Apartheid's greatest crime. It suggests that such an approach hides the complex nature of intersecting struggle within one culturally constructed location—and denies the need to investigate gender oppressions. This article refers to Mhlophe and Pam-Grant as two playwrights who write from the personal to the political context and thus provide a complex microcosm of the…
Legaleye
Re-remembering protest theatre in South Africa
All theatre is necessarily political, because all the activities of man are political and theatre is one of them. — Augusto Boal (1979)
Unsteady terrain
‘Africa’ or ‘identity’ is not a fixed point. It's not even a territory. It's like walking on sliding sand, it's always slipping. Who you are, is like faith or love. No wonder every now and then, even lovers repeat ‘I love you’. Because sometimes you just don't know. (Faustin Linyekula 2005)
Post-colonial visitations
Working from the personal to the political, this paper begins with a self-interrogation around notions of identity – especially the notion of my contested African identity (Hall 1990) – as it relates to the need to engage a multiplicity of histories and cultures; be this race, ethnicity, nation or gender. This is interrogated within the paradigm of artistic constructions around contemporary dance and choreography within a postapartheid climate. F…
The body as history and memory
As early as 1980 American radical feminist Dale Spender, set linguistic world on its paternal head with her seminal Man Made Language (1980). Arguing against notion of being a neutral means to explain a pre-given fix 'real' world outside of us, language, as Spender claimed, was a weapon appropriated by patriarchy which diminished range of women's thoughts and being in world. She argued that the liberation of women is rooted in liberation of langu…
Flying the mythical flag of a green and inclusive 2010 Fifa World Cup in KwaZulu-Natal
This Article interrogates the way in which the 2010 FIFA World Cup has acted as a catalyst for meeting the developmental objectives advanced by FIFA and the host country South Africa, and the intended aims of developing a socially inclusive, gender friendly and ‘green’ event. The Article examines these specific developmental ‘goals’ by engaging with two micro case studies in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. These include an encounter …
Framing “The Politics of Water”
Revisiting gender ecology and eco-feminism
Over the last 12 months, the NTEU has worked with Deakin researchers and NTEU members, Dr Arlene Walker, Dr Lucy Zinkiewicz, Dr Shannon Hyder and Mr Nic Droste, in a study investigating the impact of intimate partner violence (IPV) in the workplace
Navigating the Male Skin
Body Politics’ and negotiating gender violence and child sexuality through Flatfoot Dance Company's youth arts intervention programmes in KwaZulu-Natal – a case study (2003 – 2013)
This Perspective offers a feminist engagement with the ‘dancing body’ and the languages which it articulates and which it inscribes, in order to examine how social, cultural and political discourse and ideology permeate the use and reading of this body. This is done through the lens of looking at Flatfoot Dance Company's dance education and youth dance development programmes run in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), and their focus on challenging (amo…
You don’t look like a dancer!”
This briefing interrogates disability and its activist and artistic engagement with (contemporary) dance by looking at the legacies of current integrated/disabled dance programmes and companies Candoco in the United Kingdom and Remix in South Africa. This briefing links feminist engagement with critical dance studies to break male codes of reception and assumed hegemonic ‘correct’ dancing bodies, with disability studies and the politics around re…
The autoethnographic act of choreography
This article, which takes on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s (1962) notion of the body as the prime means of knowing the world, starts with the understanding that we have a body, are a body and become a body. These are key concepts for those, like me, who tell stories with the body – the act of choreography. Arguing for the notion of the embodied ‘I’ and interrogating the politics of autoethnography (see, for example, Holman Jones 2005), this article off…
Embodied storytelling
This article aims to interrogate and investigate the duel engagement with narrative and storytelling as a methodology towards collective and collaborative choreographic processes, and engages narrative as a theory of making meaning. Narrative theorists study how stories help people make sense of the world, while also studying how people make sense of stories. While narrative theory is generally located in the realm of literature and of words, thi…
Voicing the Imaginative in Africa
In what follows we offer three independent interviews with a theatre, dance and visual artist that create dialogues and emergent patterns on what it means to be a black female creative in Africa in
Cultural dialogues for feminist creatives
In one of her seminal works, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Centre (1984), cultural theorist and feminist bell hooks initiated debates around what it means for women, for people of colour, for fem
Who are the mythological and hybrid mermaids in our digital and analogue world of contemporary performance narratives?” − a conversation across oceans between two dance makers
This interview sees South African dance maker Lliane Loots in conversation with German-Chinese choreographer Hannah Ma. They have never met, never embraced body to body – they found each other via the digital synopsis of technology and have begun to share the intimacies of dance-making in, through and via digital realms. Ma’s intensely focused use of technology in her performance-making and performative enquires into what it means to be human in …
Dancing Climate Activism in Africa
This interview connects South African dance maker Lliane Loots in a conversation with Mozambican choreographer and dancer Rosa Mário. Mário has a history of making dance installation work that challenges the relationship of the female body to the natural world – with a sense of interrogating how dance, the body and the art she makes acts as an intervention toward Climate Justice in Africa. This interview, conducted over a series of email exchange…
Climate justice, gender and activisms
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