
Contemporary PerforMemory
Dancing through Spacetime, Historical Trauma, and Diaspora in the 21st Century
Layla Zami(Author)
transcript (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 21. December 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
292 pages
978-3-8376-5525-4 (ISBN)
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.
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Series
Thesis
Doctoral thesis
2017
Humboldt-Universität Berlin
Language
English
Place of publication
Bielefeld
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Klappenbroschur
Illustrations
16
8 s/w Abbildungen, 8 farbige Abbildungen
Klebebindung, 7 SW-Abbildungen, 14 Farbabbildungen
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
457 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8376-5525-4 (9783837655254)
Schweitzer Classification
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Layla Zami
Contemporary PerforMemory
Dancing through Spacetime, Historical Trauma, and Diaspora in the 21st Century
E-Book
12/2020
1st Edition
transcript
€38.99
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Person
Author
Layla Zami, Pratt Institute NY, USA
Layla Zami (Dr. phil., Dipl.-Pol.) ist wiss. Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Theaterwissenschaft der Freien Universität Berlin (SFB1512 Intervenierende Künste). Sie war Visiting Assistant Professor und dann Adj. Associate Professor of Humanities and Media Studies am Pratt Institute in New York, und lehrt bei Pratt Berlin. Als interdisziplinäre Künstlerin (Musik, Sounds, Spoken Words, Theater) tourte sie international mit Oxana Chi Dance & Art. Sie promovierte an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (ZtG), wo sie den Fakultätspreis für gute Lehre (1. Platz) erhielt. Sie ist Redaktionsvorstandsmitglied bei *Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies*.
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