Dancing Transnational Feminisms by Ananya Chatterjea

Dancing Transnational Feminisms by Ananya Chatterjea

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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ISBN 13	9780295749556
ISBN 10	0295749555
Title	Dancing Transnational Feminisms
Author	Ananya Chatterjea
Series	Dancing Transnational Feminisms
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Washington Press
Year published	2022-01-21
Number of pages	306
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