{"id":11925,"date":"2023-01-29T12:12:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T11:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/?p=11925"},"modified":"2024-07-15T16:34:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T14:34:11","slug":"169-seconds-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/2023\/01\/169-seconds-dancing\/","title":{"rendered":"169 Seconds: Improbable Dialogisms or Dancing as an Act of Defiance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\" style=\"margin-bottom:25px\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dancing as Defiance\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/782159771?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Yorgos Lanthimos\u2019s <em>Dogtooth<\/em>, the elder daughter\u2019s awkward dance for her parents\u2019 wedding anniversary can be interpreted as a subtle form of protest, which is promptly suppressed by her mother. By linking this scene to the more overtly provocative dances in Julia Ducournau\u2019s <em>Raw<\/em> and <em>Titane<\/em>, and in Pablo Larra\u00edn\u2019s <em>Ema<\/em>, I aim to conduct a feminist intervention similar to that of my previous video essay, <a href=\"http:\/\/16-9.dk\/2022\/12\/169-seconds-thelma-louise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cImprobable Dialogisms or the Art of Flying\u201d<\/a>, also published here in <em>16:9<\/em><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through techniques such as fragmentation, repetition, comparison, cacophony, and replay, the present video essay explores the unlikely intertextual connections between these dance scenes and reconstructs a performance in which the dancers support and empower each other in defiance of patriarchal norms. By breaking down barriers (graphically represented by the purple grid), their movements subvert traditional perceptions of the female ballerina dancer as fragile and pure. Moreover, the elder daughter in Lanthimos\u2019s film is in a sense saved by the collective power of these other bodies and their ability to challenge traditional gender roles and expectations through dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Facts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Concept, Design, and Editing by Barbara Zecchi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Images and Sound (cited according to fair use policies):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Yorgos Lanthimos <em>Kynodontas<\/em> (<em>Dogtooth<\/em>), Greece, 2009<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Julia Ducournau <em>Grave<\/em> (<em>Raw<\/em>), France, 2016<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Julia Ducournau <em>Titane<\/em> (<em>Titanium<\/em>), France, 2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pablo Larra\u00edn <em>Ema<\/em>, Chile, 2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>169 Jingle by Mathias Bonde Korsgaard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>169 SECONDS. At <em>16:9<\/em> we are celebrating our 20th anniversary this year with a series of 169 Seconds video essays about films, series, documentaries, etc. made since the journal was launched in 2003. In this first installment, Barbara Zecchi traces unlikely intertextual connections between four notable dance scenes in <em>Dogtooth<\/em>, <em>Raw<\/em>, <em>Titane<\/em> and <em>Ema<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":11926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[330,417,418],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11925"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11930,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11925\/revisions\/11930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}