Contemporary PerforMemory Dancing through Spacetime, Historical Trauma, and Diaspora in the 21st Century Layla Zami

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Zami, Layla <p>Layla Zami, Pratt Institute NY, USA</p>, Author.

Contributor:

Pratt Institute, History of Art & Design Department, Funder.

Series:

TanzScripte ; Band 58.

TanzScripte

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance.

Memory.

Diaspora.

Postcolonial.

Feminism.

Historical Trauma.

Postcolonialism.

Memory Culture.

Body.

Local Subjects:

Dance.

Memory.

Diaspora.

Postcolonial.

Feminism.

Historical Trauma.

Postcolonialism.

Memory Culture.

Body.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Zami, Contemporary PerfoMemory Dancing through Spacetime, Historical Trauma, and Diaspora in the 21st Century

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2020

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

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.

Summary:

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.

»Das Buch von Layla Zami ist eine wertvolle Erweiterung sowie Verbindung tanzwissenschaftlichen Wissens mit kulturellen Forschungen zu Diaspora, Erinnerung und Trauma.«

»An immense and deeply moving contribution. Zami's unwavering attention to transparency in her approach and the honesty in her writing shines through. This work is rigorous, nuanced, and poetic – reaching beyond the confines of disciplinarity to illuminate the power of bodies in motion to recall, resist, and rewrite.«

»Layla Zami's book is a valuable expansion of dance studies with cultural research on diaspora, memory and trauma.«

Contents:

Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 PREFACE 7 TUNING IN: OF STORY-HUNTERS AND DANCING LIONS 11 1 MEMORY DANCESCAPES 53 2 DIASPORIC MOVES 101 3 DANCING THE PAST IN THE PRESENT TENSE 143 4 DANCE DIALOGUES: IN CONVERSATION WITH 195 TU(R)NING OUT: TRANSFORMING THE BODY INTO A SPACETIME OF RESIST(D)ANCE 265 Bibliography 273

Notes:

Doctoral Thesis Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2017

ISBN:

9783839455258

3839455251

OCLC:

1233041053