Muffling Identities/Cultural Silencing: Exploring Issues in cultural diversity Through Dance

Abstract

Kathryn Ricketts is a doctoral student donning an oversized overcoat and hat and carrying a suitcase heavy with the weight of borrowed stories she tells through a methodology called a/r/tography. This paper serves as a living document of the years she has spent with the core members of the a/r/tographic team: Rita Irwin, Carl Leggo, Peter Gouzouasis, and Kit Grauer and marks the continued articulating of a practice informed by the key themes of identity and place. Her work is focused on the telling of stories of displacement through dance and how this telling impacts the agency of those who tell and those who listen. This paper is written from the personal perspective of the artist researcher and also from the perspectives of the a/r/tographic team.