Choreography as Sites of Encounter at the Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance
Choreography as Sites of Encounter at the Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance

Summary/Abstract: Carte Blanche is Norway’s national company of contemporary dance. This paper investigates what this position means when the notions of ‘national’ and ‘contemporary’ are open to negotiation rather than being navigational coordinates. Using an infrastructural lens that directs our attention to the relation between artworks and frameworks, it explores choreography as a site that implicates local, national and global contexts in an embodied and material encounter. The concept of contact zones and the notion of friction in global connections supplement an analysis of collaborations with three choreographers whose work is rooted in different cultural and geographical situations.

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