Layla Zami

Contemporary PerforMemory (eBook, PDF)

Dancing through Spacetime, Historical Trauma, and Diaspora in the 21st Century

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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, geographies, and histories. Featuring insightful interviews with seven international artists: Oxana Chi, Zufit Simon, André M. Zachery, Chantal Loïal, Wan-Chao Chang, Farah Saleh, and Christiane Emmanuel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Humboldt-Universität Berlin / transcript Verlag
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783839455258
• Artikelnr.: 59906787

Autorenporträt

Layla Zami (Dr. phil., Dipl.-Pol.) is Postdoctoral Researcher in Performance Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, where she works in the Collaborative Research Center on Intervening Arts. Zami spent several years as a Visiting Assistant and later Adj. Associate Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute in New York, and teaches at Pratt Berlin. As an Interdisciplinary Artist-in-Residence with Oxana Chi Dance & Art, Zami creates and performs music/sounds, spoken words, and physical theater in dialogue with the choreography. She holds a PhD from the Center for Trandisciplinary Gender Studies at Humboldt-University in Berlin, where she was awarded a Teaching Quality Prize for her seminar Performing Memory. She serves on the Editorial Board of *Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies* (DSA).

Rezensionen

O-Ton: »How does PerforMemory engage with ideas such as multidirectional memory and remembering? « - Layla Zami in the interview at the Minor Constellation Podcast on 21.10.2021. »Das Buch von Layla Zami ist eine wertvolle Erweiterung sowie Verbindung tanzwissenschaftlichen Wissens mit kulturellen Forschungen zu Diaspora, Erinnerung und Trauma.« Karina Rocktäschel, www.tanznetz.de, 14.9.2021 »An immense and deeply moving contribution. Zami's unwavering attention to transparency in her approach and the honesty in her writing shines through. This work is rigorous, nuanced, and poetic - reaching beyond the confines of disciplinarity to illuminate the power of bodies in motion to recall, resist, and rewrite.« Cristina Tadeo, The Drama Review, 66/3 (2022)