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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Art and Architecture eBook-Package 2020
• Funder: Pratt Institute, History of Art & Design Department
• VerfasserIn: Zami, Layla,
• Author: Pratt Institute, History of Art & Design Department
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: TanzScripte ; 58
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; PREFACE --; TUNING IN: OF STORY-HUNTERS AND DANCING LIONS --; 1 MEMORY DANCESCAPES --; 2 DIASPORIC MOVES --; 3 DANCING THE PAST IN THE PRESENT TENSE --; 4 DANCE DIALOGUES: IN CONVERSATION WITH --; TU(R)NING OUT: TRANSFORMING THE BODY INTO A SPACETIME OF RESIST(D)ANCE --; Bibliography
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839455258; 9783110738230; 9783110696295; 9783110696301; 9783111025124; 9783110689617
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839455258?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Layla Zami.

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, histories, and geographies.