Editors’ Note

• Published in: Dance research journal Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 1 - 5
• Main Authors: Damsholt, Inger, Hoppu, Petri
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Congress on Research in Dance 01.04.2020
• Subjects: Cultural appropriation; Cultural differences; Dance; Dancers & choreographers; Focus; Genre; Globalization; Immigrants; Migration; Mobility; Pedagogy; Pointing; Racism; Regional studies; Social media; Social networks; Sociocultural factors; Trends; Web 2.0; United States > US
• ISSN: 0149-7677; 1940-509X
• DOI: 10.1017/S0149767720000017

Social Dance-Media,” identifying “viral choreographies” as specific dancing in viral videos in which social media users contribute with re-performances of specific choreography (2010). [...]focusing on ways in which technologies facilitate the circulation and transmission of movements and gestures, Bench pointed to the importance of encounters between bodies and media technologies as an important factor of a general migratory condition. Investigating patterns of reception at the arrival of dance forms from outside of Norden, as well as how dance from the Nordic countries is received in other parts of the world, the research group gradually became more and more interested in the issue of migration. [...]combining dance studies, regional studies, and migration studies, members of the Nordic group gradually began to focus on the migratory condition as it manifests itself in dance in Nordic spaces. The study shows that the practices under investigation have contributed to a focus on an embodied self-fulfillment, rather than an interest in learning about cultural and historical specificity. [...]it shows that the existing sociocultural power differences between immigrant teachers and nonimmigrant students underline the inevitable framework of cultural appropriation. Hammergren, however, suggests a potential deconstruction of cultural appropriation and structural racism, by pointing to the fact that more recent pedagogical approaches invite students’ critical reflection on the movement material while it is practiced in the dance studio. [...]new approaches may in fact result in more reflective and negotiating ways of dealing with