Performance, Dance and Political Economy

Katerina Paramana is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Theatre and Performance at Brunel University London, UK. She is co-editor of the book Art and Dance in Dialogue, author of several articles on the socio-political and ethical dimensions of contemporary performance, and co-editor of the Interdisciplinary Book Series Dance in Dialogue. Her performances have been presented internationally.Anita Gonzalez is Professor of Theatre, Chair of Dance and Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs at the University of Michigan, US. Gonzalez is co-editor of the book Black Performance Theory with Thomas DeFrantz and author of Afro-Mexico: Dancing Between Myth and Reality and Jarocho’s Soul, as well as of numerous articles and book chapters.

Anyone encountering Paramana and Gonzalez’s volume for the first time will be thrilled to find that finally here comes a book that addresses how our bodies claim back the world by rejecting abuse and commodified relations.

• Foreword: A GestureTavia Nyong’oOpening Thoughts and Introductions Katerina Paramana and Anita GonzalezProvocationsCHAPTER 1:Performance, Dance and Political Economy: A ProvocationKaterina ParamanaCHAPTER 2:Recognizing Race and Class in Dance: Gonzalez Response to ParamanaAnita GonzalezDialogue 1: Control of BodiesCHAPTER 3: A World Beyond the Captured Body Nina PowerCHAPTER 4: Choreographing Rage Marc ArthurDialogue 2: Commodification of Bodies CHAPTER 5: Honesty and the Body Nina PowerCHAPTER 6: Feeling my way through several beginnings Alexandrina HemsleyDialogue 3: Rest, Productivity, and SurvivalCHAPTER 7: Sleepwalking: Toward A New Corporeality of Dance Marc ArthurCHAPTER 8: It Only Happens In Daylight Jamila Johnson-SmallDialogue 4: Communal DisruptionsCHAPTER 9: Community, Coloniality and Convivencia in the Festival de Danza de Santa María la Antigua del Darién, Colombia Melissa Blanco BorelliCHAPTER 10:Changing Our Bodies’ Relationships to RealityUsva SereginaDialogue 5: Anarchic Inversions of Neoliberal Economies CHAPTER 11: The “End,” “Lived Time” or How to Say Goodbye to Your World, A World. Melissa Blanco-BorelliCHAPTER 12: Dance, Anarchism, Mutual Aid Elena LoizidouDialogue 6: Escaping Capitalism?CHAPTER 13: Breaking the Illusion of Reality: Exploring Reiterations of the Performance of Consumption Usva SereginaCHAPTER 14: From Exchange to Freedom and back. No guarantees. Elena LoizidouGroup ConversationCHAPTER 15: In Conversation – Bodies at the End of the World: Performance, Dance and Political EconomyKaterina Paramana, Anita Gonzalez, Nina Power, Marc Arthur, Melissa Blanco Borelli, Usva Seregina, Jamila Johnson-Small, Elena Loizidou, and Alexandrina Hemsley (in the order of speaking)References Index