Entrer dans la peau de l’altérité par la danse contemporaine

This article highlights the benefits of the dialogue between art and anthropology through a practice-led research co-created between the author and a Senegalese dancer. What is the value for knowledge (both anthropological and artistic) when choreographic creation and ethnology meet? By questioning the differences and convergences in creative processes, and performance representations, the author sheds light on the intercultural issues within creation, reflecting social logics. The mechanisms of exclusion and structural racism within the choreographic field (in Switzerland) as well as in society are made visible. Aiming to contribute to knowledge about creativity, the genesis of gestures, and the transmission of movement through an example from elsewhere, the paper accounts for an ethical collaborative ethnography, highlighting the potential of practice-led research to reduce the epistemic violence inherent in the ethnographic encounter, particularly in the relationship between the researcher and the researched.