Not All Lateness Is the Same
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21877755 |
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| Authors | Alexandra Baybutt (0000-0002-1564-0137, University College Lahore), Anna Leon (0000-0001-6734-7525, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 39-57 |
| Publication date | 2025-12-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Performance Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2057-7176 • E-ISSN: 2947-5589 |
| Publisher | Performance Philosophy (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.21476/pp.2025.101525 |
| OpenAlex | W7117534088 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
This contribution is the result of a collaboration between a movement and performance practitioner, researcher and educator; and a dance historian. It takes as a starting point the circumstance of ‘being late’—be it for a dance class or for keeping up with choreographic trends—in order to explore how Western dance practices and theoretical discourses about dance perform, reflect and reinforce power-laden concepts and enactments of spacetime. ‘Not all lateness is the same’ is a dialogue between dance history (conceived as researching, writing, teaching and learning) and dance practice (conceived as learning, doing and watching). We explore these fields as situated within specific epistemic frameworks that define modes, limits, and values of knowledge production. Our engagement with the notion of lateness probes and pushes these frameworks—as well as the wider capitalist frameworks of production in which they are embedded—considering how dominant Eurocentric, modernist dance historiography places dance in a linear temporality of periodisation and a centre/periphery spatialisation, thus creating a hierarchical dynamic whereby peripheralised scenes, practices and even peoples are in a constant state of ‘lateness’ (typified in the 2000s with the expansion of Europe). Expansions of dance practice, provision (conditions, education, funding, infrastructure) and research, seen for instance through counter arguments to its prohibitive ableism through notions of crip time, have questioned forms of duration but not erased the dominance of setting timeframes of events that define and separate. Investigating these negotiations, we propose that some lateness can be reclaimed in a multitemporal and decentralised epistemic-practical framework
Concert dance · Contemporary dance · Dance · Dance education · Dance improvisation · Improvisation · Situated · Temporality · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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