Dancing Transnational Feminisms

Ananya Dance Theatre and the Art of Social Justice

Ananya Chatterjea, Hui Niu Wilcox, Alessandra Lebea Williams (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

306 Seiten

2022
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-74954-9 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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 Yorchhā 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

Erscheinungsdatum	15.12.2021
Reihe/Serie	Dancing Transnational Feminisms
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Piya Chatterjee
Vorwort	D. Soyini Madison
Zusatzinfo	10 b&w illus.
Verlagsort	Seattle
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-295-74954-7 / 0295749547
ISBN-13	978-0-295-74954-9 / 9780295749549
Zustand	Neuware