Contemporary PerforMemory
Dancing through Spacetime, Historical Trauma, and Diaspora in the 21st Century
1st Edition
Published on 7. December 2020
292 pages
978-3-8394-5525-8 (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.
Reviews / Votes
»An immense and deeply moving contribution. Zami's unwavering attention to transparency in her approach and the honesty in her writing shines through. This work is rigorous, nuanced, and poetic - reaching beyond the confines of disciplinarity to illuminate the power of bodies in motion to recall, resist, and rewrite.«More details
Series
Thesis
Doctoral thesis
2017
Humboldt-Universität Berlin
Language
English
Place of publication
Bielefeld
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
16
8 s/w Abbildungen, 8 farbige Abbildungen
7 SW-Abbildungen, 14 Farbabbildungen
File size
6,37 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-8394-5525-8 (9783839455258)
DOI
10.14361/9783839455258
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Layla Zami
Contemporary PerforMemory
Dancing through Spacetime, Historical Trauma, and Diaspora in the 21st Century
Book
12/2020
1st Edition
transcript
€39.00
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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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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- PREFACE
- TUNING IN
- 1 MEMORY DANCESCAPES
- 2 DIASPORIC MOVES
- 3 DANCING THE PAST IN THE PRESENT TENSE
- 4 DANCE DIALOGUES
- TU(R)NING OUT
- Bibliography
