Contemporary PerforMemory : Dancing Through Spacetime, Historical Trauma, and Diaspora in the 21st Century
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| Title: | Contemporary PerforMemory : Dancing Through Spacetime, Historical Trauma, and Diaspora in the 21st Century |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Layla Zami |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Choreography, Modern dance--Philosophy, Modern dance |
| Categories: | PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Choreography & Dance Notation, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Regional & Cultural |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9783837655254 9783839455258 |
