CHOREOPOLITICS

Text: Choreopolice and Choreopolitics: Or, the Task of the Dancer by André Lepecki

Date: Tuesday, July 29th at 7pm

Location: Dimes Square with Cam My & Aishah

In Choreopolice and Choreopolitics, André Lepecki, a writer and curator, imagines the role of choreography in the context of a heavily surveilled police state. At its most immediate, police violence amounts to the forceful control of the movement of bodies in space. Per Lepecki's thinking, this vertically imposed, coercive logic of moving bodies can be countered with a vision of "choreographic" movement — a vision of coordinated bodies free from the imposition of state violence.

In this Study, we'll think about the conditions that determine how we move in space, the forms of coordination that can disrupt/rewrite these conditions, and the possibilities of thinking like a dancer — and then we'll apply them as we move through Lower Manhattan. Can group choreography be a form of freedom?