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Dancing Transnational Feminisms : Ananya Dance Theatre and the Art of Social Justice /

"Dancing Transnational Feminisms brings together reflections and critical responses about the embodied creative practices that have been part of the work of Ananya Dance Theatre (ADT), a Twin Cities-based dance company of women of color who work at the intersections of artistic excellence and s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Williams, Alessandra Lebea (Editor ), Wilcox, Hui Niu (Editor ), Chatterjea, Ananya (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Dancing Transnational Feminisms brings together reflections and critical responses about the embodied creative practices that have been part of the work of Ananya Dance Theatre (ADT), a Twin Cities-based dance company of women of color who work at the intersections of artistic excellence and social justice. Focusing on ADT's creative processes and organizational strategies, the book highlights how women and femme artists of color, working with a marginalized movement aesthetic, claim and transform the spaces of contemporary concert dance into sites of empowerment, resistance, and knowledge production. Blending essays with epistolary texts, interviews and poems, the collection's contributors offer up a multigenre exploration of how dance and other artistic undertakings can be intersectionally reimagined. Building on more than fifteen years of collaborative dance-making and sustained dialogues, Dancing Transnational Feminisms delves into timely questions surrounding race and performance, art and politics, global and local inequities and the responsibilities of artists towards the communities they come from"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource: illustrations (black and white) ;
ISBN:9780295749563