Joker: Dancing Otherness, Perspectives from the Global South

"Why does the Joker dance? As two dancers from two different parts of the world – New Delhi and Guatemala City – we started a dialogue, not about the dance itself but about the meaning of dance in the film, which is not only a tool in the movie but an immanent characteristic of the Joker as a character. For this exchange of ideas expressed through a social media platform (without a proper start or ending), the internet became our "site"2 for an intersubjective appreciation of the film to emerge through trans-local dialogue."

A text by Beatriz Herrera and Sumedha Bhattacharyya

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