Contemporary PerforMemory Dancing through Spacetime, Historical Trauma, and Diaspora in the 21st Century (Paperback)

Paperback. 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, Andre M. Zachery, Chantal Loial, Wan-Chao Chang, Farah Saleh, and Christiane Emmanuel. An interdisciplinary research journey, introducing the new idea of PerforMemory through a study of contemporary dance-making in Europe, Taiwan, the Caribbean and the USA. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…