With \u201cD\u00e9coloniser le dancefloor\u201d, performer, activist and voguer Habibitch turns the club and the stage into a space of critical reflection. Blending theory, personal testimony and dance, this lecture\u2011performance reveals how power, privilege and resistance play out on the dancefloor \u2013 and invites us to imagine nightlife as a decolonial, feminist and queer space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this performance\u2011talk, Habibitch starts from a simple observation: the dancefloor is never \u201cjust a party\u201d. Who gets in, who feels safe enough to take space, whose bodies and dances are celebrated or exoticised \u2013 all of this is shaped by histories of racism, colonialism, sexism, queerphobia and class. Drawing on club cultures, ballroom, waacking and feminist of colour theory, she shows how nightlife can both reproduce domination and offer tools to resist it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n