Dancing Transnational Feminisms
Ananya Dance Theatre and the Art of Social Justice
- 306 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Dancing Transnational Feminisms
Ananya Dance Theatre and the Art of Social Justice
About this book
Reframes dance as an intersectional practice of community-building and just world-making 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Conents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Dancing and Writing Together: Feminist Embodiments, Transnational Solidarities
- PART I. MULTIPLE IDENTITIES: SHARED DREAMS OF COLLECTIVE DANCING
- PART II. EMBODYING SOLIDARITIES AND INTERSECTIONS: BLACK AND BROWN DANCING
- PART III. TRANSGRESSING SPACE AND BORDERS: LOCAL POLITICS, TRANSNATIONAL EPISTEMES
- PART IV. AGAINST CATEGORIES OF TIME: HISTORY, TRADITION, CONTEMPORARY DANCE
- PART V. IMAGINING RESISTANCE AND HOPE
- List of Contributors
- Index