Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan
Book cover

Heat and Alterity in Contemporary Dance

South-South Choreographies

  • Book
  • © 2020

Overview

Authors:
  1. Ananya Chatterjea

    1. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Reveals the relations of political and economic power that underlie the artistic arrangement of bodies in choreography
  • Brings together ethnographic and discursive approaches to the study of concert dance practices
  • Engages broader debates about art-making and cultural production

Part of the book series: New World Choreographies (NWC)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 79.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 99.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 99.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction

    • Ananya Chatterjea
    Pages 1-37

  3. States of Contemporary Dance

    • Ananya Chatterjea
    Pages 39-88

  4. Choreographies of Difference-Making

    • Ananya Chatterjea
    Pages 89-132

  5. Germaine Acogny: Convective Heat and Ground-Shift in Contemporary African Dance

    • Ananya Chatterjea
    Pages 133-155

  6. Sardono Kusumo: Vibratory Heat, Juxtapositional Disruptions, and Danced Rupture

    • Ananya Chatterjea
    Pages 157-183

  7. Nora Chipaumire: Rewriting as Decolonizing Heat

    • Ananya Chatterjea
    Pages 185-210

  8. Rulan Tangen: Entangling Memory, Relationality, and Repetition to Heat up Contemporary Indigenous Dance

    • Ananya Chatterjea
    Pages 211-233

  9. Lemi Ponifasio, Camille Brown, Prumsodun Ok, Alice Sheppard: Constellatory Heat and Light on Alterity

    • Ananya Chatterjea
    Pages 235-254

  10. Heat: An Entropic Practice of Contemporary Dancing

    • Ananya Chatterjea
    Pages 255-273

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 275-289
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

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






Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

    Ananya Chatterjea

About the author

Ananya Chatterjea is Professor of Dance at the University of Minnesota, USA, where she teaches courses in Critical Dance Studies and Contemporary Technique. Her work as choreographer, dancer, and thinker brings together contemporary Dance, social justice choreography, and a philosophy of #OccupyDance. She is artistic director of Ananya Dance Theatre, a Twin Cities-based professional dance company of Black and brown women and femmes, and Co-director of the St. Paul-based Shawngrām Institute for Performance and Social Justice.

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation