Transculturating Bodies:
Politics of Identity of Contemporary Dance in China
Helly Minarti

ABSTRACT
Borrowing the concept of ‘transculturation’ of Fernando Ortiz (via Taylor and Rogers), this report establishes an account on modern/contemporary dance[i] in postsocialist Chia society, positioning the transformative process of the art not on the base of ‘resistance’ or ‘opposition’ or the conflict between hegemony and counter-hegemony, but liberating it from the pitfall of locking cultures into binaries such as West/East, tradition/modernity, et cetera. Instead, Ortiz’s transculturation denominates the transformative process undergone by a society in the acquisition of foreign cultural material – the loss or displacement of a society’s culture due to the acquisition or imposition of foreign material, and the fusion of the indigenous and the foreign to create a new, original cultural product and identity. Focus is set on reading the dance corpus of Chinese......

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Title: Transculturating Bodies: Politics Of Identity Of Contemporary Dance In China
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