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Heat and Alterity in Contemporary Dance: South-South Choreographies

✍ Scribed by Ananya Chatterjea

Publisher
Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2020
Tongue
English
Leaves
305
Series
New World Choreographies
Edition
1st ed.
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

This book argues that contemporary dance, imagined to have a global belonging, is vitiated by euro-white constructions of risk and currency that remain at its core. Differently, the book reimagines contemporary dance along a “South-South” axis, as a poly-centric, justice-oriented, aesthetic-temporal category, with intersectional understandings of difference as a central organizing principle. Placing alterity and heat, generated via multiple pathways, at its center, it foregrounds the work of South-South artists, who push against constructions of “tradition” and white-centered aesthetic imperatives, to reinvent their choreographic toolkit and respond to urgent questions of their times. In recasting the grounds for a different “global stage,” the argument widens its scope to indicate how dance-making both indexes current contextual inequities and broader relations of social, economic, political, and cultural power, and inaugurates future dimensions of justice.



✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii
Introduction (Ananya Chatterjea)....Pages 1-37
States of Contemporary Dance (Ananya Chatterjea)....Pages 39-88
Choreographies of Difference-Making (Ananya Chatterjea)....Pages 89-132
Germaine Acogny: Convective Heat and Ground-Shift in Contemporary African Dance (Ananya Chatterjea)....Pages 133-155
Sardono Kusumo: Vibratory Heat, Juxtapositional Disruptions, and Danced Rupture (Ananya Chatterjea)....Pages 157-183
Nora Chipaumire: Rewriting as Decolonizing Heat (Ananya Chatterjea)....Pages 185-210
Rulan Tangen: Entangling Memory, Relationality, and Repetition to Heat up Contemporary Indigenous Dance (Ananya Chatterjea)....Pages 211-233
Lemi Ponifasio, Camille Brown, Prumsodun Ok, Alice Sheppard: Constellatory Heat and Light on Alterity (Ananya Chatterjea)....Pages 235-254
Heat: An Entropic Practice of Contemporary Dancing (Ananya Chatterjea)....Pages 255-273
Back Matter ....Pages 275-289

✦ Subjects

Cultural and Media Studies; Dance; Performing Arts; Theatre Direction and Production; Theatre Industry

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