1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 [Music plays throughout] 2 00:00:02,300 --> 00:00:09,960 Female narrator: Rhetoric is the body. 3 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:19,380 The body is rhetorical in that it speaks, listens, and 4 00:00:19,380 --> 00:00:22,100 is written on. 5 00:00:22,100 --> 00:00:26,100 Digital voice: Body play body play body play... 6 00:00:49,100 --> 00:00:51,790 Male interviewee: He is thinking about, what does it mean 7 00:00:51,790 --> 00:00:58,530 to be a white heterosexual male who 8 00:00:54,790 --> 00:01:02,739 doesn't really identify? It doesn't feel-- 9 00:00:58,530 --> 00:01:06,700 it feels awkward being in that paradigm or 10 00:01:02,739 --> 00:01:10,530 amongst those spaces, and yet when I go 11 00:01:06,700 --> 00:01:15,369 into spaces that are non-white, non-heterosexual, or 12 00:01:10,530 --> 00:01:16,869 non-male spaces, then I also don't 13 00:01:15,369 --> 00:01:18,490 really fit over there because I'm still 14 00:01:16,869 --> 00:01:20,619 in this body. So there's been a lot of 15 00:01:20,619 --> 00:01:23,500 thinking about my literacy of my own body. 16 00:01:23,500 --> 00:01:25,509 Female narrator: From the spatial intermingling of 17 00:01:25,509 --> 00:01:27,800 practices there emerged a specific 18 00:01:27,820 --> 00:01:30,000 centrism between athletics and rhetoric 19 00:01:30,039 --> 00:01:33,700 a particular crossover of pedagogical 20 00:01:33,700 --> 00:01:35,710 practices and learning styles, a crossover 21 00:01:35,710 --> 00:01:37,840 that contributed to the development 22 00:01:38,060 --> 00:01:40,700 of rhetoric as body art, an art learned, 23 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:42,840 practiced, and performed by and with the 24 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:45,540 body as well as the mind. 25 00:01:45,540 --> 00:01:57,960 [musical transition] 26 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:01,640 Female narrator: I think my biggest literacy is being 27 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:04,100 able to read the body, my main job as a 28 00:02:04,300 --> 00:02:08,960 teacher, choreographer, and dancer is to be able 29 00:02:09,140 --> 00:02:12,920 to read and interpret movement 30 00:02:12,920 --> 00:02:18,780 [musical transition] 31 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:23,130 There is power, fragility, beauty, and 32 00:02:23,130 --> 00:02:27,620 monstrosity in the rhetorical body. 33 00:02:27,620 --> 00:02:29,620 [musical transition] 34 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,760 There is determination, strength in 35 00:02:33,940 --> 00:02:37,700 the rhetorical body. 36 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:49,180 There is a peace and a 37 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:51,560 knowledge in listening to the rhetoric 38 00:02:51,640 --> 00:02:54,620 of one's body. 39 00:02:54,620 --> 00:03:17,900 [musical transition] 40 00:03:19,980 --> 00:03:22,819 There is a violence in having the rhetoric 41 00:03:22,819 --> 00:03:29,420 of our bodies stolen from us, and social, 42 00:03:26,299 --> 00:03:38,420 cultural, and political narratives not 43 00:03:38,420 --> 00:03:38,420 our own are written and re-encoded on our body. 44 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:40,960 It is through our bodies that violence occurs--yes. 45 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:44,200 Our bodies are battlegrounds--yes. But it 46 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,060 is also through our bodies that we live, 47 00:03:47,260 --> 00:03:49,820 breathe, and die. It is through our bodies 48 00:03:50,020 --> 00:03:51,600 that we are born and give birth. It is 49 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:53,980 through our bodies that we feel and express 50 00:03:53,980 --> 00:03:57,160 passion, despair, desire, and devotion, dialectically. 51 00:03:57,380 --> 00:04:00,140 It is our bodies that are 52 00:04:00,340 --> 00:04:03,120 fragmented and whole. It is our bodies 53 00:04:03,180 --> 00:04:05,260 that time stops and continues on. 54 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:07,540 It is our bodies that speak, it is our bodies 55 00:04:07,549 --> 00:04:10,459 that we listen to 56 00:04:10,460 --> 00:04:11,760 there's our bodies that are written on. 57 00:04:11,860 --> 00:04:15,540 It is our bodies that are rhetorical. 58 00:04:15,540 --> 00:04:17,540 [musical transition] 59 00:04:20,060 --> 00:04:24,580 Singer: what a wicked thing to say, 60 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:32,520 you never felt that way. What a wicked thing to do, to 61 00:04:33,020 --> 00:04:37,210 make me dream of you 62 00:05:01,979 --> 00:05:04,979 I don't want to fall in love...