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The article, Butterfly takes flight: The trans-local circulation of creative practice by
Amanda Rogers, provides an insight into the interpretation of the artwork. The topic focuses on
art as a discipline under social and cultural geography. Apparently, people need to understand
any connection that exists between artistic practice and mobility. Rogers provides a transparent
approach to rejecting the belief that views art as connected to specific contexts.
The main argument of the article involves exploring itinerant locations of performance
and relationship to creative practice (Amanda 664). It shows that art and performance move
through such systems, re-producing worldwide, precisely trans-local geographies. The article
inspects diverse-locational transmissions and spatiality that locates working on the talents under-
examination. The study originates from a more comprehensive research project examining
international geographies of Asian performance.
The article's scope covers a comprehensive discussion of the mobile geographies of
performance. It further exposes how they relate to the creative practice of art. Apparently,
Rogers provides a detailed view of the effects of inter-place movements on artistic traditions.
The author highlights the nuances concerning this matter thereby leaving no doubt concerning
such relationship. For example, it uses M. Butterfly's explanations of circular geographies to
underline this idea (Amanda 665). The author also relates the concept of translocation creativity
to New York City, London casting and Singapore staging (Amanda 669). Moreover, Rogers