Dance your PhD: Truth, Justice and Reparation processes to Sahrawi victims of enforced disappearance

Abstract

Dance your PhD is a initiative to promote the innovative scientific knowledge transfer through dance. In this video, we have use choreograpy a powerful social tool where dancers embody critical human rights uses and provide movement to the victims claims.Dance is able to coexist during hardships and violence, a way to connect individuals with people suffering and feelings. We have used movement to portray inequities and as an instrument to reveal the process of truth, justice, and reconciliation for sahrawi victims. The thesis (https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handl…​), that recived the Brunet Award in 2017, delves into the answer provided by the IER to Sahrawi victims.

The curtain behind which the dissapeared dance, that is made with Melhfas (traditional women dresses), represents the silence and opposition that surrounds human rights violations in Western Sahara.

Recorded in January 2021 following all the security measures related to covid-19.