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Native Girl Syndrome: Lilian Mengesha, ‘Deceleration as Decolonial Intervention in Lara Kramer’s NGS: Native Girl Syndrome’, ASAP/Journal, 4, 3, 2019, pp. 575-600

31Jan20

Excerpt: Native Girl Syndrome (2013), a one-hour dance piece that embodies the intimate haze and afterlife of drug use, sex work, and poverty through a dissociative and slow movement score. Kramer, a choreographer of mixed Oji-Cree and settler heritage, creates movement that confronts dispossession through aggravated and slow actions. Waste, found objects, and the detritus of self-medication litter the set of NGS. Sharing temporalities of decay, the choreography and the very nature of these discarded objects stage an embodied decomposition, a peeling away of the elements that constitute the performance as a whole. In the unraveling of embodied action, we see how trash transforms into possessions and how women’s bodies become discarded within the structural violence of settler-colonial societies.


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