Best Practices
A ten minute dance film by Rebecca Fitton. A satirical take on the presence of democracy’s performance in her work as a “dance maker.” A layering of improvisational dances, diagrams-turned-notations, audio descriptions, and sound scores pulled together by a machine-processed edit. Video and sound glitch coded by Joshua Dumas.
Fitton asks:
Can I dance democracy? I imagine the democratic process as dual attempts of improvised movement and descriptions of the constant, in flux motion. But, the codification of western democracy is instead linear, institutionalized, and routinely oppressive to historically marginalized communities. Through this performance as research methodology, I ask, what can be critiqued or re-imagined by embodying institutional systems and democratic processes?
Published in Etudes: an online theatre and performance studies journal for emerging scholars, in their December 2022 issue.