Flowing between polarities

Oppositional binaries undergird our present society: one can find them in the ones and zeros of computers, the true or false of logic, the yes or no of a simple question. Though binaries are useful in that they serve to simplify a complex and everchanging world, they also impose distance between the categories they create. Moreover, describing the difference between two concepts, two people, or two objects as polarity implies a hierarchy between the two: a positive and negative end. Flowing Between Polarities is a choreographic research process that questions the false binaries that exist within Western thought: mind and body, self and other, and individual and society. By using mind, body, and their interplay as entry points for investigation, Flowing Between Polarities explores how conflicting impulses can be contended with in an individual as well as negotiated through a group.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.25820/bk4s-9459