Décentralisation
The most subversive and urgent strategy choreography making can adopt nowadays, is décentralisation.
If there’s any sense whatsoever in looking outside the studio and choreographic process, for any sort of substance worth relating to, it’s this.
Decentralizing the conventional structure of hierarchies between choreographer and dancers, rethinking the distribution of power and responsibilities, coming up with new ways of defining what choreography/dance making can actually be, is the most valuable manner in which dance can become a relèvent force in pointing out societal anomalies and proposing alternatives.
Luckily, it’s also the surest way to avoid making bad choreography, repeat/copy others, ensure originality, make for happy, empowered and engaged dancers, bring forth a sense of meaning, change the established paradigms and rescue dance from its current free fall into all effect / zero structure default mode. Effect is always the result of centralized power, while structure emerges organically only when centralized control is being dismantled.
Centralized power, be it in politics, economics, art making, education and whichever other form of ‘humans organizing themselves’, is always the lesser choice. Benefiting the few in perverted ways and harming the many. Down spiraling rather then uplifting. Limiting, dumbing, numbing, oppressing, confusing.
#decentrlize
