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Choreographing Rebellion : Dance Practice from South Africa to Japan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- job, jackï.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Job, Jackï.
- Women dancers--South Africa.
- Women dancers.
- Dancers--South Africa.
- Dancers.
- Butō--South Africa.
- Butō.
- Dance--Political aspects--South Africa.
- Dance.
- Dance--South Africa--Psychological aspects.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (183 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2026.
- Summary:
- An auto-ethnographic account of a choreographic praxis developed outside of Western practice, which engages with identity, decoloniality and transformation from a feminist perspective.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- 1 Emergence
- Names and identity
- Self-naming identity
- Prepossessing the future
- Dawn of Daai za Lady
- The revelation of an animist spirit: A matriarchal chair, carcasses and masks
- Spirit: Love, Blood &
- Candyfloss
- Spirital: The Coloured Dancer &
- the Caf é Owner's Son
- Dancing lines of communication
- Daai za Lady's politicized emergence
- Daai za Lady &
- Man Mantis
- Dancing Daai za Lady's prehistory in activism
- The Kiss
- 2 Germination and growth
- The importance of the first step
- Zai, Tetsu and Me
- Japan and South Africa's cultural isolation
- Yas Kaz &
- Daai za Lady
- Japanese codes of daily life: Unbuilding Western perceptions of structure
- Hectism
- Hidden worlds
- Moon over Zen Lion
- Going Home
- Enacting love as a strategy of resistance
- Transmitter
- The otherworldly attunement of Daai za Lady's ontology
- 3 Blossoming and fullness
- Blossoming: Finding connections through difference
- In music
- In dance
- We All Matter
- For Anene
- Developing new methodologies in performance
- The-body-walks-itself
- The-body-inverts-itself
- Framing and reframing African identity
- A brief note on resisting language
- Fullness: Multiple translations of Daai za Lady and Butoh in South Africa
- With students
- With opera
- With sex workers
- Corporeal interpenetration
- Of Dreams and Dragons
- 4 Dissipation
- Becoming the praying mantis
- And Then …
- Following elastic lines
- And Then… 2020, 2021
- 5 Looking back
- Connecting Vedas and Yugas to Daai za Lady and Butoh
- Treta
- Dwapara
- Kali
- Satya
- Dancing Daai za Lady into the praying mantis
- 6 Looking back to look forward
- Connecting the Yugas.
- What happens next?
- Epilogue
- Principles for choreographing with rebellion
- Curiosity
- Attitude
- Actions
- Humility
- Courage
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-350-45207-6
- 9781350452077
- OCLC:
- 1574805742
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