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    612-822-4611

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

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

Chatterjea, Ananya
Wilcox, Hui Niu
Williams, Alessandra Lebea

Paperback

Series: Decolonizing Feminisms

DanceAsian American StudiesWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 0295749555
ISBN13: 9780295749556
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: Jan 21 2022
Pages: 306
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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