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 A choreographic video project on the topic of colonialism in the context of a critical perspective on the performance of the term "culture" and its postcolonial implications.

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 As my choice, “Memoirs of a Geisha”, for the research was influenced in the fact that I realized that it’s a movie about Japanese tradition produced by american creating team that made me questioning how one culture that doesn't have any similarities in traditions or history to the other culture, can create something about the unknown, far away culture. During the researching process I came to a point of how certain information in an object (movie) can create a misunderstanding by lacking real facts and using just some elements of a certain culture as it was happening during the colonialism when colonialists were spreading a picture about the colonized culture as poor country without knowledge. The picture of primitive culture, that is easy to manipulate brain and conscience of their own people, is used by the colonizers to affect their people thinking towards other culture to make them feel that they are helping the colonized cultures by offering them a work as a slave because they are underneath their education and understanding of the world. In the movie you can see how pictures of traditions are exaggerated symbols to evoke an emotion in people, audience. I was transforming this situation of transporting and applying the use of historical and traditional base with shallow knowledge and understanding of the information but without intention to evoke anything direct to the audience.