Heat and Alterity in Contemporary Dance

Ananya Chatterjea is Professor of Dance at the University of Minnesota, USA, where she teaches courses in Critical Dance Studies and Contemporary Technique. Her work as choreographer, dancer, and thinker brings together contemporary Dance, social justice choreography, and a philosophy of #OccupyDance. She is artistic director of Ananya Dance Theatre, a Twin Cities-based professional dance company of Black and brown women and femmes, and Co-director of the St. Paul-based Shawngrām Institute for Performance and Social Justice.

• 1. Introduction: Speaking from the “waiting rooms of History”.- 2. States of contemporary concert dance: The tyranny of the pointed foot.- 3. Sardono Kusumo/ Growing contemporary movement from vibration.- 4. Germaine Acogny/The technical strategies of pollution and Rulan Tangen/The entanglement of memory and imagination in technique.- 5. Rosy Simas: Deflating conventions of indigeneity differently.- 6. Nora Chipaumire: The politics of continuous re-writing.- 7. Conversations that raise the roof: In dialogue with Hari Krishnan, Marcus Young, and the dancers of Ananya Dance Theatre.