This book addresses a gap in our understanding of the cultural and artistic contributions of Europeans of color. Histories of 20th-century European dance have often excluded artists working outside dominant aesthetic traditions, while dancers of color have frequently been confined to notions of the "exotic" and relegated to the margins of scholarship. Focusing on the French dancer and choreographer Nyota Inyoka (1896-1971), this study draws on her archive to examine the concept of créolité as an important yet overlooked force in artistic and discursive innovation within the performing arts.
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Language
Place of publication
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Approx. 305 p. 30 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
ISBN-13
978-3-032-33160-1 (9783032331601)
Schweitzer Classification
Sandra Chatterjee
is a choreographer and scholar in Culture & Performance and Dance Studies based between Munich and Kolkata. Her work explores audience participation and the sensory dimensions of performance. Her recent project
Dance with the Stars #1
activates Nyota Inyoka's
La Clef des attitudes et du geste esthétique
(CdA) choreographically. Her publications address collectivity, migration, postcoloniality, queerness, and performance.
Franz Anton Cramer
is a dance scholar specialising in archival research and research on archives. He has realised projects in Leipzig (Dance Archives), Paris (media library Centre national de la danse), Berlin (Tanzplan Deutschland / Dance Heritage), Salzburg (University), Hamburg (Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures), Berlin (Bureau Ritter), and currently Leipzig (HMT, 2025/27).
Nicole Haitzinger
is Professor in the Department of Art History, Musicology and Dance Studies at the University of Salzburg, Austria. She is a former member of the DFG-funded research group on 'The Staging of Otherness in the 'Long' Nineteenth Century', and since 2019 has been part of the leading team of the FWF-funded project 'Border Dancing Across Time'. Nicole lives and works in both Salzburg and Paris.
