Two Essays About Consent in Contemporary Dance

Below is a twofold essay about consent discourses, especially in relation to improvisatory touch practices. On the one hand, it lists concrete tools for enabling consent seeking cultures in the professionalized dance sphere. On the other hand, it establishes a critical perspective on the underlying ideas of rational subjecthood that haunt consent discourses. The essay thus aims to give literary form to the complex and at times contradictory processes of agreeing to something.