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Dee(a)r Spine: Dance, Dramaturgy, and the Repatriation of Indigenous Memory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2016

Sam Mitchell  and
Julie Burelle
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Abstract

This dialogue between artist and dramaturg documents the creation of Dee(a)r Spine, Sam Mitchell's adaptation of the Yaqui Deer Dance, performed on Kumeyaay territory at the University of California, San Diego. Weaving reflections on dance, dramaturgy, and methodology, this article posits that dancing offers a pathway to the repatriation of Indigenous memory and kinship, a way to honor the trajectories of those whose connections with their communities have been interrupted by settler-colonialism. Dancing as a repatriation methodology, we argue, carves a healing space of sensate self-representation that centers on Indigenous forms of knowing and leaves no one behind.

Keywords

Decolonizing methodologiesdramaturgymemoryrepatriationself-representationYaqui Deer Dance
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Articles
Information
Dance Research Journal , Volume 48 , Issue 1: Indigenous Dance Today , April 2016 , pp. 41 - 54
Copyright
Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 2016 

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