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Body-Movement-Change

Dance as Performative Qualitative Research

University of Bath, Bath, UK

This article focuses on dance as a performance ethnographic project. It is grounded on Denzin’s vision of a social science that resembles a performance to become a sociopolitical act. As inherently political, this performative social science allows us to move toward the spaces of "a progressive pragmatism." Furthermore, this article examines the possibilities of dance making to change social science thinking instead of using dance as a representational tool for research. It derives from Deleuze and Guattari’s vision of art as sensitive knowledge and Massumi’s notion of the body as a sensible concept.

Key Words: performance ethnography • dance • movement • Deleuze • Massumi

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