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.
Price: $45.00
Pages: 292
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
27 December 2020
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837655254
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
»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.«
Layla Zami (Dr. phil., Dipl.-Pol.) is Postdoctoral Researcher in Performance Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, where she works in the Collaborative Research Center on Intervening Arts. Zami spent several years as a Visiting Assistant and later Adj. Associate Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute in New York, and teaches at Pratt Berlin. As an Interdisciplinary Artist-in-Residence with Oxana Chi Dance & Art, Zami creates and performs music/sounds, spoken words, and physical theater in dialogue with the choreography. She holds a PhD from the Center for Trandisciplinary Gender Studies at Humboldt-University in Berlin, where she was awarded a Teaching Quality Prize for her seminar Performing Memory. She serves on the Editorial Board of *Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies* (DSA).
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
PREFACE 7
TUNING IN: OF STORY-HUNTERS AND DANCING LIONS 11
1 MEMORY DANCESCAPES 53
2 DIASPORIC MOVES 101
3 DANCING THE PAST IN THE PRESENT TENSE 143
4 DANCE DIALOGUES: IN CONVERSATION WITH 195
TU(R)NING OUT: TRANSFORMING THE BODY INTO A SPACETIME OF RESIST(D)ANCE 265
Bibliography 273
