ABSTRACT

Though law in/and/as performance is a burgeoning area of scholarship, with scholars exploring the relation between theatre, music and law, there is substantially less attention paid to the possibilities of dancing the law. In this article, the author identifies three styles of legal dance – (1) dance as legal practice, (2) dance as legal resolution, and (3) dance as legal research – providing case studies of each from amongst contemporary dance practice. Drawing from this legal dance practice and a survey of the existing field of dance and law research, the author asserts then challenges some common dichotomies between dance and law, most predominant of which is the claim that dance is body oriented whereas law is word oriented. Arguing against this common dichotomy, as the curtains close, the author choreographs the beginnings of dance as an embodied jurisprudence – one that moves the discussion of dance and law from metaphor to methodology.

摘要

尽管法律在/和/作为表演是一个新兴的学术领域，学者们正在探索戏剧、音乐和法律之间的关系，但对法律舞蹈的可能性的关注却很少。在本文中，作者确定了三种合法舞蹈风格——（1）作为法律实践的舞蹈，（2）作为法律解决的舞蹈，以及（3）作为法律研究的舞蹈——提供了当代舞蹈实践中每一种的案例研究。基于这种合法的舞蹈实践以及对现有舞蹈和法律研究领域的调查，作者断言挑战了舞蹈与法律之间的一些常见二分法，其中最主要的是舞蹈以身体为导向而法律以文字为导向的说法。反对这种常见的二分法，随着窗帘的关闭，