"Dancing Transnational Feminisms brings together reflections and critical responses about the embodied creative practices that have been part of the work of Ananya Dance Theatre (ADT), a Twin Cities-based dance company of women of color who work at the intersections of artistic excellence and social justice. Focusing on ADT's creative processes and organizational strategies, the book highlights how women and femme artists of color, working with a marginalized movement aesthetic, claim and transform the spaces of contemporary concert dance into sites of empowerment, resistance, and knowledge…mehr
"Dancing Transnational Feminisms brings together reflections and critical responses about the embodied creative practices that have been part of the work of Ananya Dance Theatre (ADT), a Twin Cities-based dance company of women of color who work at the intersections of artistic excellence and social justice. Focusing on ADT's creative processes and organizational strategies, the book highlights how women and femme artists of color, working with a marginalized movement aesthetic, claim and transform the spaces of contemporary concert dance into sites of empowerment, resistance, and knowledge production. Blending essays with epistolary texts, interviews and poems, the collection's contributors offer up a multigenre exploration of how dance and other artistic undertakings can be intersectionally reimagined. Building on more than fifteen years of collaborative dance-making and sustained dialogues, Dancing Transnational Feminisms delves into timely questions surrounding race and performance, art and politics, global and local inequities and the responsibilities of artists towards the communities they come from"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Ananya Chatterjea is professor of dance at the University of Minnesota. Hui Niu Wilcox is professor of sociology, critical studies of race and ethnicity, and women's studies at St. Catherine University. Alessandra Lebea Williams is assistant professor of dance at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Illustrations Foreword by D. Soyini Madison Acknowledgments Dancing and Writing Together Feminist Embodiments, Transnational Solidarities Ananya Chatterjea, Hui Niu Wilcox, and Alessandra Lebea Williams PART I. MULTIPLE IDENTITIES: SHARED DREAMS OF COLLECTIVE DANCING 1. Historical Ruminations: Breath, Heat, and Movement-Building Ananya Chatterjea 2. "It's Been My Community": Interview with Gina Lynn Kaur Kundan Alessandra Lebea Williams 3. Ananya Dance Theatre as Social Justice Experiment: Where We Were in 2005, Where We Are Now Shannon Gibney 4. The Gone Bird Song Chitra Vairavan 5. Dance of the Spiraling Generations: On Love and Healing with Ananya Dance Theatre Hui Niu Wilcox PART II. EMBODYING SOLIDARITIES AND INTERSECTIONS: BLACK AND BROWN DANCING 6. Femininity, Breaking That Boundary: Interview with Orlando Zane Hunter Jr. Alessandra Lebea Williams 7. Loving Deeply: Black and Brown Women and Femmes in the Theatrical Jazz Aesthetic of Laurie Carlos and the Yorchh¿ Practice of Ananya Dance Theatre Alessandra Lebea Williams 8. Emerald City Renée Copeland 9. Dancing Black Militancies: Written Meditation on Performance, Black(female)ness, and Dance as Ecological Resistance in Ananya Dance Theatre Zenzele Isoke, with Naimah Petigny PART III. TRANSGRESSING SPACE AND BORDERS: LOCAL POLITICS, TRANSNATIONAL EPISTEMES 10. Mindful Space-Making: Crossing Boundaries with Ananya Dance Theatre Surafel Wondimu Abebe 11. Speculative Choreography: Futures of Feminist Food Justice and Sovereignty Jigna Desai 12. Musings on Crossing: Ananya Dance Theatre in Addis Ababa Hui Niu Wilcox 13. Ananya Dance Theatre and the Twin Cities: Community and Dance David Mura 14. Forecast Mankwe Ndosi PART IV. AGAINST CATEGORIES OF TIME: HISTORY, TRADITION, CONTEMPORARY DANCE 15. This Stage Is Not a Safe Space Thomas F. DeFrantz 16. My Work Is Worth the Struggle Sherie C. M. Apungu 17. Ananya Dance Theatre in the Genealogy of Women of Color Feminism Roderick A. Ferguson 18. Absence/Presence/Silence/Noise Toni Shapiro-Phim PART V. IMAGINING RESISTANCE AND HOPE 19. A Politics of Hope: Letters, Dance, and Dreams Patricia DeRocher, Simi Kang, and Richa Nagar 20. A Personal Reckoning: Reflections from Duurbaar to Mohona Brenda Dixon-Gottschild 21. Fire from Dry Grass Nimo Hussein Farah 22. Affirmation Ananya Chatterjea List of Contributors Index
List of Illustrations Foreword by D. Soyini Madison Acknowledgments Dancing and Writing Together Feminist Embodiments, Transnational Solidarities Ananya Chatterjea, Hui Niu Wilcox, and Alessandra Lebea Williams PART I. MULTIPLE IDENTITIES: SHARED DREAMS OF COLLECTIVE DANCING 1. Historical Ruminations: Breath, Heat, and Movement-Building Ananya Chatterjea 2. "It's Been My Community": Interview with Gina Lynn Kaur Kundan Alessandra Lebea Williams 3. Ananya Dance Theatre as Social Justice Experiment: Where We Were in 2005, Where We Are Now Shannon Gibney 4. The Gone Bird Song Chitra Vairavan 5. Dance of the Spiraling Generations: On Love and Healing with Ananya Dance Theatre Hui Niu Wilcox PART II. EMBODYING SOLIDARITIES AND INTERSECTIONS: BLACK AND BROWN DANCING 6. Femininity, Breaking That Boundary: Interview with Orlando Zane Hunter Jr. Alessandra Lebea Williams 7. Loving Deeply: Black and Brown Women and Femmes in the Theatrical Jazz Aesthetic of Laurie Carlos and the Yorchh¿ Practice of Ananya Dance Theatre Alessandra Lebea Williams 8. Emerald City Renée Copeland 9. Dancing Black Militancies: Written Meditation on Performance, Black(female)ness, and Dance as Ecological Resistance in Ananya Dance Theatre Zenzele Isoke, with Naimah Petigny PART III. TRANSGRESSING SPACE AND BORDERS: LOCAL POLITICS, TRANSNATIONAL EPISTEMES 10. Mindful Space-Making: Crossing Boundaries with Ananya Dance Theatre Surafel Wondimu Abebe 11. Speculative Choreography: Futures of Feminist Food Justice and Sovereignty Jigna Desai 12. Musings on Crossing: Ananya Dance Theatre in Addis Ababa Hui Niu Wilcox 13. Ananya Dance Theatre and the Twin Cities: Community and Dance David Mura 14. Forecast Mankwe Ndosi PART IV. AGAINST CATEGORIES OF TIME: HISTORY, TRADITION, CONTEMPORARY DANCE 15. This Stage Is Not a Safe Space Thomas F. DeFrantz 16. My Work Is Worth the Struggle Sherie C. M. Apungu 17. Ananya Dance Theatre in the Genealogy of Women of Color Feminism Roderick A. Ferguson 18. Absence/Presence/Silence/Noise Toni Shapiro-Phim PART V. IMAGINING RESISTANCE AND HOPE 19. A Politics of Hope: Letters, Dance, and Dreams Patricia DeRocher, Simi Kang, and Richa Nagar 20. A Personal Reckoning: Reflections from Duurbaar to Mohona Brenda Dixon-Gottschild 21. Fire from Dry Grass Nimo Hussein Farah 22. Affirmation Ananya Chatterjea List of Contributors Index
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