"Don't Tell Me How to-Dance!": Negotiating Collaboration, Empowerment and Politicization in the Ethnographic Theatre Project "Hope"
Keywords:
performance-centred research, collaboration, politicization, Roma, ethics, improvisationAbstract
This article contributes to the experimental ethnog-
raphy literature by providing a critique of ethnographic col-
laboration, empowerment and politicization. Focusing on my
ethnographic theatre project "Hope" - developed in collabora-
tion with Roma women and local actors in Poland in 2003 - I
discuss the power struggles over representation that defined
my project and that arose from our multifarious understand-
ings of theatre as an art form, differences in what the project
meant to us and in what we hoped to accomplish through it. I
reveal the problematic moral, ethical and political decisions I
had to make that forced me to rethink both my methodology
and my role as ethnographer.
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