Racisme et danse: mouvement de construction des corps d'exception

Abstract

Like other sectors of society, the world of dance, which is pedagogical and choreographic, hosts a racism built around prescriptive prejudices. The racism is (re)produced at the same time by a lack of awareness of the actors-resses of this environment of the scope of the prejudices but also through different rhetorics. At the same time universalist and differentialist, making racialized dancers sometimes equals whose differences will be erased, or also some “Others” having physical or behavioural particularities specific of their gene or their culture justifying thus their being set apart. It is the construction of these other bodies, differencied, dominated in the field of the dance which will be focus of our interest here.