Storyboard Towards Critical Autoethnographic Dance Film

• In Event: Popular Communication, Everyday Imaginaries, and Transnationality

Abstract

The author will discuss the potential and the challenges of creating dance film as critical autoethnography. The author will present the rough-cut of a six-minute autoethnographic dance film entitled “ICA MEMBER.” The author also discusses the implications of presenting scholarship given the author’s cultural identity and social identity, in the format of autoethnographic dance film. The author collaboratively produced and directed the film. The film features in it with other dancers. It film addresses the social, political and economic landscape of the United States in a globalized context, through the lived experiences of the author during childhood, tertiary academic studies, an international career, and now a return to the academy. The film currently serves as a storyboard for refining and completing a final cut of the film.

Author

• Vernita Pearl Fort, U of Illinois