Contemporary PerforMemory

Dancing through Spacetime, Historical Trauma, and Diaspora in the 21st Century
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-8376-5525-4
Verlag: transcript

Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Kartoniert, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 456 g

Reihe: Critical dance studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zami, Layla

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz

Über Autor(innen)

Zami, Layla
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*.

Layla Zami (Dr. phil., Dipl.-Pol.) is Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, where she teaches in the fields of humanities, performance studies, and art history. She also works as Interdisciplinary Artist-in-Residence (music, spoken words, physical theater) with Oxana Chi Dance & Art, and is Co-Curator of Dance at the International Human Rights Art Festival. Zami obtained a PhD from the Center for Trandisciplinary Gender Studies at Humboldt-University in Berlin, where she was awarded a Teaching Quality Prize for her seminar Performing Memory. She received an ELES/BMBF Doctoral Fellowship, graduated from Sciences Po Paris, and was a Visiting Research Scholar at Columbia University. Zami is also the co-director of Memory2Go, a documentary film.