Name: Contemporary Performemory: Dancing Through Spacetime, Historical Trauma, and Diaspora in the 21St Century (Critical Dance Studies)
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Author: Layla Zami
ISBN: 9783837655254

portada Contemporary Performemory: Dancing Through Spacetime, Historical Trauma, and Diaspora in the 21St Century (Critical Dance Studies)

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Transcript Verlag

Author

Layla Zami

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9783837655254

Synopsis "Contemporary Performemory: Dancing Through Spacetime, Historical Trauma, and Diaspora in the 21St Century (Critical Dance Studies)"

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, histories, and geographies. Featuring insightful interviews with seven international artists: Oxana Chi, Zufit Simon, André M. Zachery, Chantal Loïal, Wan-Chao Chang, Farah Saleh, and Christiane Emmanuel.