Paper short abstract:

Written during a global pandemic while searching for ways to radically question white heterosexist norms, this essay is an invitation to consider a multi-sited, multi-sensorial and multi-ethnographical research.

Paper long abstract:

Written during a global pandemic while searching for ways to radically question white heterosexist norms, this essay is an invitation to consider a multi-sited, multi-sensorial and multi-ethnographical research. Also I will deconstruct and interrupt the white heteronormative framework that is dominant in the Western world. The bigotry and oppression sexual and racial minorities currently face are due to professional installations of sexologists and physicians’ scientific research on the nature of humankind. They found ways to meticulously place skin colors, sexualities and gender performances in a violent binary hierarchical structure. In my film Dancing in Captivity the viewers are moved to viscerally engage with me in the interrogation of the concepts of race, queerness and gender norms. It’s a film that queers, or rather dances, creatively juxtaposes and merges various media, allowing viewers to refuse entrapment. With their entire being viewers, which become co-makers, are invited to reason with poetry, dance, music, the visual and text. The bringing together of these various media in film, interrupting the realist fallacy of film, promotes multisensorial becoming, queer becoming and the queering of anthropology. I did not stop grooving as I danced making this film, which is truly made when viewed. I keep dancing in this essay and invite the reader to reason from the dancing humans perspective. When you dance along, you participate. When you participate you relate. Let’s question and engage in movement. Get ready to dance!