Vibrant dance in an inclusive community

Abstract

Dance in inclusive environments moves in the terrain of the body, art, and identity, taking the corporeal movement and the image that it generates as a starting tool to construct discourse. Dance and inclusive community is a vibrant bet that has been brewing since the end of the 20th century, although its projection has been strong in the last decade.

Starting from the need to articulate space so that the diverse coexists, it will reflect on the turn of the arts towards the community, and how part of dance opens up to new territories looking for micro-utopias.

We will give a vision of the transgressions caused by Disability Culture movement, a community and artistic space where the gaze on the dis-able body that exceeds the norm becomes productive images that transform our relationships. Linked to this, we will delve into the concept of performativity, key to understanding that search that transits between the tensions created within the normative culture in which we have grown up and the new imaginaries where we are propelled by the discourse of artists with functional diversity, within an art that you want to be alive and mutable.

Finally, we will delve into the construction of the spontaneous community that is generated in the public space in an unexpected way, in collision with the habits of the practical body imposed on the street and its architecture, often hidden by our routines. To do this, we will analyze some of Ruedapies' inclusive dance projects, focusing on site-specific public interventions.

As the main conclusion we contribute that art where people with functional diversity or other stigmatized groups participate, allows to return reality to the scene, but transcending the economy of the gaze and broadening the vision about the person, enabling new forms of relationship, thus generating dialogue space. In this sense, we establish connections between the language of some community artists with the artists of the Disability Culture movement, since they generate transgression and move categories.