Contemporary PerforMemory – Dancing through Spacetime, Historical Trauma, and Diaspora in the 21st Century

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

Contemporary PerforMemory looks at dance works created in the 21st century by choreographers identifying as Afro-European, Jewish, Black, Palestinian, and Taiwanese-Chinese-American. It explores how contemporary dance-makers engage with historical traumas such as the Shoah and the Maafa to reimagine how the past is remembered and how the future is anticipated. The new idea of perforMemory arises within a lively blend of interdisciplinary theory, interviews, performance analysis, and personal storytelling. Scholar and artist Layla Zami traces unexpected pathways, inviting the reader to move gracefully across disciplines, geographies, and histories.Featuring insightful interviews with seven international artists: Oxana Chi, Zufit Simon, André M. Zachery, Chantal Loïal, Wan-Chao Chang, Farah Saleh, and Christiane Emmanuel.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-12-07
Mått:147 x 226 x 15 mm
Vikt:666 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Dance Studies
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Transcript Verlag
ISBN:9783837655254

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Kolonialism och imperialism inom Historia och arkeologi
Dansböcker inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Layla Zami (Dr. phil., Dipl.-Pol.) ist wiss. Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Theaterwissenschaft der Freien Universität Berlin (SFB1512 Intervenierende Künste). Sie war Visiting Assistant Professor und dann Adj. Associate Professor of Humanities and Media Studies am Pratt Institute in New York, und lehrt bei Pratt Berlin. Als interdisziplinäre Künstlerin (Musik, Sounds, Spoken Words, Theater) tourte sie international mit Oxana Chi Dance & Art. Sie promovierte an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (ZtG), wo sie den Fakultätspreis für gute Lehre (1. Platz) erhielt. Sie ist Redaktionsvorstandsmitglied bei *Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies*.

Recensioner i media

»An immense and deeply moving contribution. Zami's unwavering attention to transparency in her approach and the honesty in her writing shines through. This work is rigorous, nuanced, and poetic – reaching beyond the confines of disciplinarity to illuminate the power of bodies in motion to recall, resist, and rewrite.«