Entrer dans la peau de l’altérité par la danse contemporaine

Vionnet, Claire (2021). Entrer dans la peau de l’altérité par la danse contemporaine (Submitted). Ateliers d'anthropologie

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This paper highlights epistemological questions related to the production of anthropological
knowledge by artistic practice. The benefit of the dialogue between art and anthropology is
discussed departing from a research-creation. What is the value for knowledge (anthropological and artistic) when choreographic production meets ethnography? The following discussion draws on Dereskina, a dance performance between André, dancer and choreographer from Dakar/Bienne, and Claire, anthropologist and dancer from Lausanne/Berne. Dereskina discusses the intimacy generated by movements, the appropriation of traditional gestures and the exhibition of dancing bodies (blackness/whiteness), unfolding mechanisms of exclusion within Swiss cultural institutions. The paper gives an account of an ethical collaborative ethnography, showing how research-creation can reduce the epistemic violence inherent within an ethnographic encounter. The research traces back the genesis of artworks, contributing to the knowledge about creativity, transmission of movement and postcolonial studies.

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