Crowded White Spaces

Dîner en Blanc and the Place-Based Contingencies of Choreography

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ID11222980
AuthorsAlana Gerecke (Simon Fraser University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume55
Issue2
Pages28-43
Publication date2023-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDance Research Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0149-7677 • E-ISSN: 1940-509X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0149767723000220
OpenAlexW4386752373
LanguageEN
References cited32

This spatial and contextual approach to the performance of assembly takes Dîner en Blanc, an annual pop-up picnic, as a case study. Ethnographic and choreographic analyses of the 2018 picnic event in Vancouver, Canada, ground a critique of the dynamics of site specificity and host/guest relations that drive this local expression of a global event. Drawing on a range of performance and decolonial theorists, this place-based movement analysis of the event foregrounds the recolonizing implications of staging aesthetically whitewashed culinary choreographies on the unceded and traditional territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations

Aesthetics · Art · Cartography · Choreography · Dance · Event (particle physics) · Geography · Picnic · Visual arts · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Theatre and Performance Studies

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