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DanceTopias analyzes how social dances in Cape Town shape identity and social norms related to race, class, and gender. The project employs qualitative methods to explore the historical and contemporary significance of dance as a space for identity transformation and social interaction.
DanceTopias proposes to analyse the production and transformation of identity boundaries which occur through social dances in African globalized cities, through an analysis of the case of Cape Town.
In this city, as in others, social and popular dances create spaces where citizens can assert, transform, and play with identity categories and social norms related to race, class, and gender.
In that sense, they represent what Michel Foucault called “heterotopias”, i.e. spaces that disrupt ordinary…
UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE
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South Africa, Rondebosch
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Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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