Heat and Alterity in Contemporary Dance - South-South Choreographies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)

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. Winner of the 2022 Oscar G. Brockett Prize for Dance Research

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	New World Choreographies
Release date:	October 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Ananya Chatterjea
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	289
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-043911-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Dance > General
LSN:	3-03-043911-9
Barcode:	9783030439118

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