ABSTRACT
In this chapter I reflect on the way that young people (ages 10–13) with LGBTQ2S+ parents engaged in a voguing dance workshop during an applied theatre research project. I demonstrate that once participants’ bodies connected through movement affective energy was redirected towards living differently. For example, ‘striking a pose’ became a relational emergence of power and knowledge creating unpredictable compositions of embodied knowing through which an unsticking of affective signs materialised. When bodies are punctured as they come into contact during collaborative and relational performance, openings are created that facilitate movement both towards and away from one another. This builds recognition of similarities and differences across bodies and becomes a building block for participants to understand themselves as individuals and as agents of change within the wider world. I conclude that as a form of anti-oppression education, affective collaborative performance works to redefine ways of being and doing through movement as a relational encounter.
