Transforming the national body: choreopolitics and disability in contemporary Cambodian dance
Rogers , Amanda
Transforming the national body: choreopolitics and disability in contemporary Cambodian dance - sage 2020 - Vol 27, Issue 4. 2020 : (527–543 p.).
This article analyses how dance traces geographies of nation and national identity. Focusing on contemporary dance in Cambodia, particularly in relation to disability, it examines how some dancers are shifting the constitution of the national ‘body’. The article extends geographical exchanges with dance studies by drawing upon the concept of choreopolitics and analysing how it produces variegated enactments of nationality. In the process, the article works across different approaches to the study of nations and extends our understanding of how the nation is a performed entity.
Transforming the national body: choreopolitics and disability in contemporary Cambodian dance - sage 2020 - Vol 27, Issue 4. 2020 : (527–543 p.).
This article analyses how dance traces geographies of nation and national identity. Focusing on contemporary dance in Cambodia, particularly in relation to disability, it examines how some dancers are shifting the constitution of the national ‘body’. The article extends geographical exchanges with dance studies by drawing upon the concept of choreopolitics and analysing how it produces variegated enactments of nationality. In the process, the article works across different approaches to the study of nations and extends our understanding of how the nation is a performed entity.