2834-6823 Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies 2834-6823 Michigan Publishing 10.3998/conversations.5945 Article Table of Contents Gómez-García Juan Sebastián juansebastiangoga@gmail.com 1 Timina Polina polina.timina@gmail.com Centro de Pensamiento Pluralizar la Paz / Institut pour la Paix 19 07 2024 2024 43 i v CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

We have decided to organize the contributions into pairs to emphasize our wish and strength: creating conversation. We have grouped them for various reasons: to highlight how similar situations can be navigated differently, to make connections between disparate places, and to show how distinctive identities and processes can lead to similar struggles or come to a shared liberation. The keywords indicate and suggest the “why” of pairing, the themes we find they pull at. The first contribution serves as the entry point into this journal, sets the tone. The last one—our final note, a ringing in our ears.

Enjoy,

Juan and Polina

Introduction: Approximations and Findings on Ethics, Risk, Safety, and Care in the Fields of Dance Research By Juan Sebastián Gómez-García and Polina Timina 1

Keywords: ethics, risk, safety, field, care, violence, experience, anthropology, academic institutions, Euro-American centrism
1. Against Discovery By Sarah Lass 23

Keywords: phenomenology, discovery, contemporary dance, settler colonialism, indigenization, relations, coordination
2. & 3. Party Girls Don’t Get Hurt (?) Loving and Fearing the Party Scene and Nightlife in Kingston, Jamaica By Daniela Rodríguez Neira and From Sevilla to Brussels: a Description of the Decision-Making Process from the Researcher’s Bodily Experience While Navigating Risks in the Field By Ana Gabriela Hernandez Hernandez 4363

Keywords: fear, sexualizations of bodies, support systems, dance in precarity, nightlife, social dance, community strategies of protection, panic, performance in diaspora, women researchers, (dis)comfort, activism, dancehall, rap
4. & 5. Exploring Ubuntu-Based Research Methodologies in Southern African Bantu People’s Embodied Movements: Ethical Considerations, Community-Based Strategies, and Philosophy By Alois Maluleke and Responding to the Call of Compromisso: Reflections on Research Ethics from the Ground of Capoeira Angola By Esther Viola Kurtz 87110

Keywords: Ubuntu, ethics, community, ethnochoreomusicology, ritual, decolonization, cultural attunement, ecological sustainability, empowerment, capoeira, positionality, compromisso, embodied ethics, intersubjectivity, responsibility
6. & 7. Contemporary Dangers in Researching the Field in the Republic of Srpska in Retrospect to the Yugoslav War in Bosnia and Herzegovina: An Experience from the Field in the Kozara- and Potkozarje-Area By Nikola Petrović and I Came Out to My Father Through My Positionality Chapter: Reflections on Ethics and Risk By A. A. 137154

Keywords: identity of researcher, Eastern Europe, folk dance spaces, nationalism, diaspora, perception by interlocutors, classroom, authenticity, traditional dance, dance scene, research anxiety, danger, risk, ethnochoreology, queerness
8. & 9. Becoming-With Risk in Autoethnographic Creative Practice By Alesha Mehta and A Society to Me: On Conflict and Intimacy Training By Sam Wentz and his team of movement researchers 176189

Keywords: artistic practice, transgression, autoethnography, boundaries, objects making space, ritual as method, conflict, intimacy, risk, dance improvisation, play, responsibility, cooperation, non-verbal exploration, bodily experience
10. & 11. Drilled Choreographies: Interventions on Preparing for the Active Shooter By Shannon Woods and Community care in Palestine: When Grief and Politics Meet in the Body By Annie Wren 195212

Keywords: performance as research, rehearsal, disciplined bodies, choreography in/of violence, grief work, community, intervention, emotions, embodied experience, vulnerability, improvisation, movement, vocabulary, law enforcement, resistance
12. & 13. Armenian Women’s Embodiment in a Phenomenon of War By Sona Pogossian and “We Can’t Let Go”: Navigating Dance in a (Post-)Conflict Society By Debanjali Biswas and Babina Devi 231249

Keywords: sensibilities or resistance, ongoing violence, traditional dance, women in dance, insider-outsider dynamics, everyday life, ritual, suspicion, militarization, gender, cultural identity, conflict, Manipur, war phenomenon, Armenia
14. & 15. Psychological Safety in the Western Concert Dance Technique Class By Nicole Perry, Halie Barr, Cat Kamrath-Monson and Ethical Relationality in Rehearsal Spaces: a Case Study of Mizu no Eki By Mélanie Stuckey and Peter Fairbridge 268295

Keywords: care, ethics, psychological safety, agency, creative process, horizontality, collectivity, colonial and western structures, dance representation, ethical relationality, inclusivity, ecology, non-dominant narratives, dance technique
16. Le Dernier Jour d’un Condamné—My Auto-Condemnation By Marita Matar 313

Keywords: auto-condemnation, plea, colonial methodologies, violence, inclusive care