“Activating Whiteness: Racializing the Ordinary in US American Postmodern Dance” explores how the choreographic turn to postmodernism twisted the trope of racial exclusion from a focus on trained bodies to a focus on ordinary bodies. Analyses of Yvonne Rainer'sTrio A(1966) and Trisha Brown'sLocus(1975) demonstrate how ordinary bodies shape racially exclusive spaces and activate the biopolitical mechanisms of normalization that their choreography allegedly contests. This essay argues that the spaces activated by the bodies that shaped them carry the physical trace of the performers’ race through the enduring invisibility of whiteness.

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激活白度：美国后现代舞蹈中的普通人种族化

“激活白人：美国后现代舞蹈中的普通人种族化”探讨了舞蹈转向后现代主义如何将种族排斥的比喻从关注受过训练的身体转向关注普通身体。Yvonne Rainer 的分析三重奏A（1966）和特丽莎布朗的轨迹(1975) 展示了普通的身体如何塑造种族排斥的空间并激活他们的舞蹈编排据称与之抗衡的正常化的生命政治机制。本文认为，由塑造它们的身体激活的空间通过持久的白色不可见性承载着表演者种族的物理痕迹。