| Contemporary Performemory: Dancing Through Spacetime, Historical Trauma, and Diaspora in the 21st Century Contributor(s): Zami, Layla (Author) |
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ISBN: 3837655253 ISBN-13: 9783837655254 Publisher: Transcript Publishing OUR PRICE: $44.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Dance - General - Social Science | Popular Culture - Political Science | Colonialism & Post-colonialism |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 6" W x 9" (0.87 lbs) 280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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 "perforMemor"y 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, histories, and geographies. Featuring insightful interviews with seven international artists: Oxana Chi, Zufit Simon, André M. Zachery, Chantal Loļal, Wan-Chao Chang, Farah Saleh, and Christiane Emmanuel. |
