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Where we dance (ecologically) together: reading Ananya Dance Theatre’s Roktim: Nurture Incarnadine

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  • Liz Ivkovich

    (School of Arts, Communication & Media, Salt Lake Community College)

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In September 2015, Ananya Dance Theatre premiered Roktim: Nature Incarnadine, an evening-length dance about women of color, seeds, food systems, and soil. Roktim weaves dancers’ biographies with myth, history, and science to form an epic narrative intersecting environment and social difference—an environmental justice biomythography. This work is an unconventional example of an environmental dance in both aesthetic and content. Through a year of ethnographic fieldwork and participation with the company, I explore aspects of Roktim and how my own body becomes implicated in the work. Using literature from eco-dramaturgy, eco-criticism, dance studies, and environmental justice, I consider how the performance and a reading of it contributes a corporeal perspective to critical sustainability.

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  • Liz Ivkovich, 2018. "Where we dance (ecologically) together: reading Ananya Dance Theatre’s Roktim: Nurture Incarnadine," Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Springer;Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences, vol. 8(4), pages 547-552, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:jenvss:v:8:y:2018:i:4:d:10.1007_s13412-018-0486-5
    DOI: 10.1007/s13412-018-0486-5
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    1. Adrienne Cachelin & Jeff Rose, 2018. "Guiding questions for critical sustainabilities," Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Springer;Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences, vol. 8(4), pages 570-572, December.

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