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The political dimension of dance : Mouffe’s theory of agonism and choreography
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Petrović, Goran (2017) The political dimension of dance : Mouffe’s theory of agonism and choreography. In: Fisher, Tony and Katsouraki, Eve, (eds.) Performing Antagonism: Theatre, Performance & Radical Democracy. Performance Philosophy . Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 251-272. ISBN 9781349950997
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95100-0_13
Abstract
In order to support this argument, I will first turn to the quasi-transcendental philosophical trajectory developed by the French philosopher, Jacques Derrida, before then turning to examine post-foundational politico-philosophical thought, which emphasises the indispensable moment of exclusion in the construction of any social practice, and the dimension of the impossibility of absolute foundation or grounding. This is of particular relevance to Mouffe’s agonistic model of democratic politics which proposes the disarticulation and transformation of dominant socio-political discourses around we/they relations. For Mouffe, democratic politics begins by acknowledging—rather than suppressing—antagonistic relations within the practice of hegemony. Insight into Mouffe’s political theory provides the basis for grasping the political dimension of art and, moreover, will permit an understanding of it in terms of counter-hegemonic struggle. In the final section, I envisage dance practice from these philosophical and political standpoints with the aim of defining choreography in relation to the sphere of contestation such that it may be understood to contribute to the transformation of democracy and society as a whole. In this regard, what I will be calling agonistic encounters and agonistic objectifications in dance performances will be the articulation of partial and contesting systems of relations allowing different realities to be materialised in the same space.
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies | ||||||
| Series Name: | Performance Philosophy | ||||||
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan | ||||||
| ISBN: | 9781349950997 | ||||||
| Book Title: | Performing Antagonism: Theatre, Performance & Radical Democracy | ||||||
| Editor: | Fisher, Tony and Katsouraki, Eve | ||||||
| Official Date: | 26 January 2017 | ||||||
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| Page Range: | pp. 251-272 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1057/978-1-349-95100-0_13 | ||||||
| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 March 2020 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 11 March 2020 | ||||||
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