Queering Distances and Disoriented Dancing Bodies: Matija Ferlin’s Relational Performances Sad Sam Revisited and The Other for One
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https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i28.587Keywords:
disorientation; queering; dance; embodiment; trauma.Abstract
The paper argues spatial parameters in defining queer identity, especially in Anglo-American critical discourse, eager to employ it as a strategy for queer performance, or notable, modern, or contemporary dance hermeneutics. Leaning on traditional queer researchers, e.g., Judith Butler, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and José Esteban Muñoz, to name just a few of them, as well as on materialist concepts of the body, affects, the human touch, etc., a deep analysis of two Matija Ferlin’s performance projects is offered, precisely from a perspective of queer resistance to dominant heteronormative paradigms of -’orientation’-, -’identification-’, and ’affectuality’.
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