ERIC Number: EJ1423935
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 12
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Solidarities of the Marginalized as Anti-Racist Dance Pedagogy: Reflections on Collaborative Advocacy from Dance Educators with Connective Marginalities
Alfdaniels Mabingo; Kiri Avelar; Ruohan Chen; Franchesca M. Cabrera
Journal of Dance Education, v24 n2 p136-147 2024
The comprehensive implementation of anti-racist dance pedagogy requires recognition that the prevailing dominance of Anglo-European cannons of teaching, creating, performing, researching, and learning dance has continued to disempower, subjugate, and inhibit knowledge and practices of communities on the margins. As dance practitioners writing from the margins, we draw on our duoethnographic stories as "testimonio" and the theories of South-South connection and "plática" to critically examine how we have engaged ideas, experiences, and practices of people we share connective marginalities with to build critical consciousness and solidarities as a step toward anti-racist collaborative advocacy in dance education. The authors use their writing, choreography, pedagogic, and community engagement experiences to reimagine marginality. The article reveals how critical action around anti-racist dance pedagogy can circumvent institutional and academic rigidities. The discussion ushers the reader into a world where dance practitioners on the margins activate agency to achieve self-empowerment and meaningful connections for, by, and with themselves.
Descriptors: Social Justice, Minority Groups, Racism, Dance Education, Teaching Methods, Cooperation, Advocacy, Critical Theory, Cultural Activities, Cultural Maintenance
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