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…mehr
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.
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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 Yorchh¿ 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
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 Yorchh¿ 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
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