Glocal Bodies Dancers in Exile and Politics of Place: A Critical Study of Contemporary Iranian Dance Elaheh Hatami

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hatami, Elaheh <p>Elaheh Hatami, Freie Universität Berlin, Deutschland</p>, Author.

Series:

Critical dance studies (Bielefeld, Germany) ; Volume 62.

TanzScripte

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance.

Female Dancer.

Exile.

Gender.

Iran.

USA.

Transformation.

Displacement.

Migration.

Body.

Local Subjects:

Dance.

Female Dancer.

Exile.

Gender.

Iran.

USA.

Transformation.

Displacement.

Migration.

Body.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Hatami, Glocal Bodies Dancers in Exile and Politics of Place: A Critical Study of Contemporary Iranian Dance

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2022

Biography/History:

Elaheh Hatami (Dr. phil.), born in 1979, studied dance studies at Freie Universität Berlin, where she also received her doctorate. For her Ph.D she was awarded with a scholarship from the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation. Her research focuses on the contemporaneity and transformation of dance forms at the time of digitalization.

Summary:

This book is a critical study of Iranian dance and the works of Iranian-American female dancers in exile. Focusing on the study of contemporary Iranian dance through analysis of the choreographies of three female dancers in diaspora (namely Aisan Hoss, Shahrzad Khorsandi, and Banafsheh Sayyad), this research is among the first of its kind. Elaheh Hatami investigates the transformation of professional Iranian dance and discusses the role of relocation and displacement in its performance. She argues that Iranian dance and Iranian female dancers have always been in exile – not only in a physical sense, but also in the metaphorical sense of ›exile‹ implying foreignness, exclusion, and marginalization.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Background, Objective, and Methodology

Chapter 1. Dance: A Dilemma in Iranian Art

Chapter 2. Exile at Home: The Imposition of Outsider Status on Dancers and Dance within Iran

Chapter 3. Moving toward External Exile: Iranian Dance and Dancers Cast out of their Homeland

Chapter 4. Change of Perspective: Becoming Contemporary through Tradition and Experiment

Chapter 5. Transformation and Reconnection to Home

Conclusion

List of Figures

Works Cited

Online Resources.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Hatami, Elaheh Glocal Bodies

ISBN:

9783839460801

3839460808

OCLC:

1348489014