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0.0 AbstractThis paper investigates the relation between knowledge, language, and power through collaborative auto-ethnographic analyses of a dance workshop, all researchers participated in. The purpose is to illustrate an alternative method of acquiring academic knowledge in an attempt of decolonizing our thinking. As knowledge is presented in the Western world as a concept of the mind, this project takes its point of departure in a bodily experience. Further, as this project argues that dance is a semiotic language that works through bodily expression and visual interpretation, it includes a discussion of six different impressions of a dance performance.With six different voices, six different topics and ‘sides’ to the topic will be presented and analyzed through a palette of theory, interviews, reflections, poetics, and writing styles. Finally, the structure of this paper is a symbol of the chaotic nature of this inquiry of constantly evaluating and critiquing the kind of knowledge production one ultimately has to produce within the frames of an academic paper. <br/

How Can Dance Help Us Learn?

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