Download or read book Choreographing the North written by Bridget Cauthery and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2024-12-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choreographing the North examines eleven contemporary dance pieces that perform northern culture, landscape, folklore and ideas of North. The choreographers, from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Luxembourg, Australia, and Argentina, translate their real or imagined journeys to the North for stage and/or screen. This book examines the ways Indigenous subjects and subjectivities have been diminished and/or distorted and considers how that diminishment has fueled misrepresentation both inside and outside the field of contemporary dance. Where Indigenous presence is represented in dances about the North it is as discarnate storytellers or "everyman" pastoral figures against backdrops of ice and snow. Indigenous presence is there but it is romanticized, caricatured, flattened. Using these works as moving texts Cauthery argues that, in many regards, these dances are colonizing acts that either ignore or erase the land and people upon which they are based. In analysing and deconstructing these dances, this book acknowledges the land- and culture-based inheritances embedded in and performed through the works themselves. This study will be of great interest to students and scholars in Dance Studies, Theatre & Performance Studies, and Cultural Studies, as well as those interested in environmental psychology, human geography and the expanding field of Arctic humanities.