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Dancing Transnational Feminisms: Ananya Dance Theatre and the Art of Social Justice
Contributor(s): Chatterjea, Ananya (Editor), Wilcox, Hui Niu (Editor), Williams, Alessandra Lebea (Editor)
ISBN: 0295749547     ISBN-13: 9780295749549
Publisher: University of Washington Press
OUR PRICE:   $108.90  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: January 2022
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Performing Arts | Dance - Regional & Ethnic
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies
Dewey: 305.42
LCCN: 2021010546
Physical Information: 1.02" H x 6.06" W x 9.13" (1.20 lbs) 306 pages
 
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Through empowered movement that centers the lives, stories, and dreams of marginalized women, Ananya Dance Theatre has revealed how the practice of and commitment to artistic excellence can catalyze social justice. With each performance, this professional dance company of Black, Brown, and Indigenous gender non-conforming women and femmes of color challenges heteronormative patriarchies, white supremacist paradigms, and predatory global capitalism. Their creative artistic processes and vital interventions have transformed the spaces of contemporary concert dance into sites of empowerment, resistance, and knowledge production.

Drawing from more than fifteen years of collaborative dance-making and sustained dialogues based on deep alliances across communities of color, Dancing Transnational Feminisms offers a multigenre exploration of how dance can be intersectionally reimagined as practice, methodology, and metaphor for feminist solidarity. Blending essays with stories, interviews, and poems, this collection explores timely questions surrounding race and performance, gender and sexuality, art and politics, global and local inequities, and the responsibilities of artists toward their communities.