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Cut the Sky—Dramaturgies to Disrupt the Anthropocene

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This chapter extends the proposal for dramaturgies that listen to Country in the face of extractive capitalism and climate change to situate the neo-expressionism identified in the previous chapter within contemporary cultural politics of the industrialisation of Indigenous land in north-west Australia. The chapter takes the form of a close examination of Cut the Sky (2015), directed by the author and co-choreographed by Dalisa Pigram and Serge Aimé Coulibaly (Burkina Faso/Belgium) and developed on Yawuru and Bunuba Country. Through recent discourse on climate change by Indigenous scholars and perspectives and protocols shared by Yawuru, Bunuba and Nyikina custodians, the chapter outlines a multifaceted application of response-ability expressed through corporealities and dramaturgies which acknowledge radical and insurgent intersubjectivies with people, other species, places and things.

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Swain, R. (2020). Cut the Sky—Dramaturgies to Disrupt the Anthropocene. In: Dance in Contested Land. New World Choreographies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46551-3_4

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