| Volume 24 Number 3 | February 10, 2023 |
Moving Together: Intra- and Intergenerational Dance Performing Citizenship
Carol Brown
University of Melbourne, Australia
Linda Knight
RMIT University, Australia
Clare Battersby
Independent Scholar
Jenny Roche
University of Limerick, Ireland
Citation: Brown, C., Knight, L., Battersby, C., & Roche, J.. (2023). Moving together: Intra- and intergenerational dance performing citizenship. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 23(3). http://doi.org/10.26209/ijea24n3
Abstract
In this article, we focus on dance as intra- and intergenerational learning that cultivates corporeal knowledge held in common. Three interrelated projects reveal how danced connections between life stages develops an aesthetics of complex interaction and a mutuality of learning that enacts citizenry through communities in motion in the urban-scape. The projects approach dance practice through an expanded concept of choreography that takes into account the site, situation and life stage of dancers. We propose that moving together is a social choreography, a method for developing body-place awareness and civic participation, sharing experiences and bodily practices and performing relational complexity.
