Dancing Change: Embodied Cross-Currents Between Radical Dance Pedagogy and Decolonial Futures
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This research project aims to articulate the dance educator’s potential in creating decolonial, ecologically-embedded futures. Applying a research-creation methodology, I look to a summer of teaching I experienced to explore Indigenous posthumanist systems of relation, theories of the rhizome and assemblage by Deleuze and Guattari, affect theory, and feminist ethics of care to ultimately critique underlying colonial-capitalist patterns of thought and embodiment, specifically dualism. I explore how these patterns permeate the dance studio space by tracing the history of Western dance studios through colonialism and capitalism, specifically in the place we call Canada, thus creating what remains today the studio, student, and teacher’s current material conditions. I then explore how a dance educator might disrupt these colonial attitudes by enacting a radical shift in their pedagogy that focuses on creating conditions which pull students into corporeal relations with the world(s) around and within them. In understanding what this shift entails, I work autoethnographically to highlight the disturbances I create in my own classes that subtly challenge my students to reconsider, question, and evaluate our commonplace social patterns. I aim to articulate how embodied pedagogical events disrupt, reorient, and attune to the ecological worlds in which we are embedded. In addressing the concerns of settler-colonial logics, I am examining how dance educators can aim to rupture colonial-capitalist binary thought patterns, thus creating the potential for radical spaces of embodied relationality, reciprocity, and care.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.044 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.013 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".