In South Africa, dance as a weapon of contestation
By: Claire Bargelès Follow
In South Africa, dance is more than a traditional heritage or entertainment: it is a political and protest tool, and movement is part of the culture of wrestling.
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Omnipresent in the demonstrations against the white power of the apartheid era, the dance also allowed generations to build an identity specific to the townships, where the black populations were displaced, an identity outside the huts that one wished for them. impose. Even today, gesture, pantomime, rhythm, make it possible to pass messages, to detach oneself from the dominant culture, and to reinvent oneself.
" In South Africa, dance as a weapon of contestation ", a major report by Claire Bargelès.
(October 2, 2019 replay)
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