By SanSan Kwan
In Kinesthetic City, writer SanSan Kwan explores the contentious nature of Chineseness in diaspora during the lens of relocating our bodies as they relate to put, time, and id. She locates her research in 5 chinese language city sites--Shanghai, Taipei, Hong Kong, New York's Chinatown, and the San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles--at momentous old turning issues to parse out key similarities and variations within the development of Chineseness. The relocating our bodies she considers will not be in simple terms these in performances through probably the most famous chinese language dance businesses in those towns, but additionally her personal as she navigates city chinese language areas.
By focusing totally on kinesthesia--the body's wisdom of motion--to assemble details instead of extra conventional modes of sight, sound, odor, contact, and style, she highlights the significance of movement within the selection of area. In analyzing in those particular locations at those exact ancient moments, Kwan illuminates how relocating our bodies give a contribution to the construction of these locations and people moments. For Kwan, chinese language groups in diaspora offer really salient examples of the way while and the place bodies are aid to figure out who we're. no matter if engaged in another way unremarkable jogging or in hugely choreographed acts of political protest, human circulate exists in discussion with the kinesthetic of those urban areas, aiding chinese language groups make that means of themselves clear of mainland China.
As an entire, Kinesthetic City bargains dance reviews how you can expand move research to review not just live performance, folks or social dance, but additionally quotidian move and concrete movement.
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In this way, neither cities nor bodies are [18] Kinesthetic City viewed as natural essences; rather, both are understood as producing each other—and thereby producing certain meanings—about Chineseness, or Shanghai-ness, Taipei-ness, Hong Kong-ness, Chinatown-ness, Los Angeles-ness—that Kinesthetic City aims to explore. DANCE I have not yet addressed one of the main objects of study in this book: concert dance. Kinesthetic City argues for dance as a new analytic for understanding city space as a process in the making of Chineseness.
Still later, though, I note how in Taipei the phenomenon of women taking to the streets invites not empowerment but sexual aggression. A feminist approach threads its way throughout Kinesthetic City. 24 Even as I argue above that Jin is an emblem of Shanghai, I want to nuance this claim. ” I see the parallel between Jin and Shanghai somewhat differently. Jin’s transgender identity is not a case of either total transformation or complete concealment but instead incites a messy dance among tropes of revelation versus “mere” performance, masking versus realization, that “disidentify”25 with either/ or logics of gender.
Another documentary film titled Dancing From the Communist Cocoon—China juxtaposes the life and work of classical ballet dancer Xin Lili, from the state-run Shanghai Ballet, with Jin’s life and work and argues, rather two dimensionally, that Jin represents the flashy, new, capitalist China while Xin represents the old, Communist-run China. Of course, both ballet and modern dance are Western imports, and both in their own way serve a nationalist project. Nevertheless, the juxtaposition established here echoes the dichotomies made of the city these two dancers inhabit: a city with a colonial past and a global present, a national iconic status and a transnational outlook.