ABSTRACT
Observing the compositional and collaborative processes taking place during the bicultural arts-based research Brazil-Denmark Dance Education Meeting: Creating Connections through Music and Dance (Brasília Federal Institute, 2016), we noticed that approaches rooted in the expanded choreographic field made for particularly fertile meetings. During a one-week-long meeting, students from the Danish National School of Performing Arts facilitated shared creative collaborations with dance graduate students from the Brasília Federal Institute. Choreographic strategies which were less concerned with movement language, relying instead on expressive concepts (Cvejić, 2015), allowed the participants to skip the translation of (culturally dependent) movement language and to more readily move into a shared artistic investigation where their different cultural and socio-economic backgrounds were recognised, but the real foreground was the interaction present in the contemporaneity of the choreographic reality. Using Massey’s dynamic understanding of space (2005) and Sousa’s (2007) ecology of knowledge, we look at how choreographic enquiries which are less dependent on artistic traditions in either culture can allow for a shared exploration of what is not already known and the creation of other possible artistic imaginations for the future.
