Inclusion as Folded Choreo-Writing

Abstract

Abstract This chapter investigates how inclusion can happen through folded choreo-writing, a way of thinking about inclusion, choreography, and folding that arose in the meeting between the two authors. We propose folded choreo-writing as a way of making connections through experiences, memories, spaces, relations, and politics. Coming from vastly different geopolitical backgrounds, we (the authors) still found collective resonance through a feminist-queer point of view, acknowl-edging choreography, inclusion, and politics as transpositional nomadism (Braidotti in Transpositions: On nomadic ethics. Polity (2006)) and the simultaneity of diverse and paradoxical spheres. From this shared theoretical topography and through experi-ences of how dance can be a place of exclusion that resonated across their differences, we started our folded choreo-writing together. How could choreography counteract exclusive border-making and thinking embedded in dance traditions and instead offer spaces of freedom and inclusion?

Inclusion as Folded Choreo-Writing