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This book is a critical study of Iranian dance and the works of Iranian-American female dancers in exile. Focusing on the study of contemporary Iranian dance through analysis of the choreographies of three female dancers in diaspora (namely Aisan Hoss, Shahrzad Khorsandi, and Banafsheh Sayyad), this research is among the first of its kind. Elaheh Hatami investigates the transformation of professional Iranian dance and discusses the role of relocation and displacement in its performance. She argues that Iranian dance and Iranian female dancers have always been in exile – not only in a physical sense, but also in the metaphorical sense of ›exile‹ implying foreignness, exclusion, and marginalization.
Price: $50.00
Pages: 202
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
27 October 2022
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837660807
Format: Paperback
Elaheh Hatami (Dr. phil.), born in 1979, studied dance studies at Freie Universität Berlin, where she also received her doctorate. For her Ph.D she was awarded with a scholarship from the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation. Her research focuses on the contemporaneity and transformation of dance forms at the time of digitalization.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgements 7
Introduction: Background, Objective, and Methodology 11
Chapter 1. Dance: A Dilemma in Iranian Art 23
Chapter 2. Exile at Home: The Imposition of Outsider Status on Dancers and Dance within Iran 45
Chapter 3. Moving toward External Exile: Iranian Dance and Dancers Cast out of their Homeland 87
Chapter 4. Change of Perspective: Becoming Contemporary through Tradition and Experiment 113
Chapter 5. Transformation and Reconnection to Home 133
Conclusion 183
List of Figures 191
Works Cited 193
Online Resources 201