Hybridity


Katherine Profeta defines the word hybridity in reference to Ralph’s attraction. Ralph is a choreographer Profeta uses throughout her book.  In her book, Dramaturgy in Motion, Profeta refers to it as a mixture of people. She speaks of (169). Ralph had many dancers present, all different from each other. This difference ranged from gender, culture […]

Hybridity


Defined as  the term “hybridity” has become even more significant in the contexts of cultural and postcolonial studies. The possibility of establishing/dismantling paradigms and social conjectures based on mixtures and interchanges between cultures has sparked the interest of scholars, who have developed different theories to explain how hybridity occurs, what it entails and what its consequences […]

Hybridity


“Hybridity”, as a noun, usually has the same meaning as “hybrid”. It refers to . In the text of the “Interculturalism” of the book Dramaturgy in Motion by Katherine Profeta, “hybridity” refers to While the resistance against power structures and the same structures’ dominance are usually contradictory and cannot coexist, hybridity allows that to happen. […]

Hybridity


. .  It is strongly related to themes of interculturalism, and post-colonial theory. In performance, cultural hybridity is present when the piece is a merger of elements from contrasting cultures and ideals. Since dance is an expression identity, and we live in a highly globalized world, hybridity is very relevant to dance today. In Dramaturgy […]

Hybridity


Hybridity Hybridity refers to mixture. It implies an action of combining two or more different elements together and come up with on one unit, a fusion. In Katherine Profeta’s book hybridity is used in the realm of dance style formation out of distinct varieties. Its production comes through a process of recursive translation. Katherine recounts […]