Dancing After Life
Flexible Spacetimes of Black Female ResistDance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11224145 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Layla Zami (0000-0003-1613-5199, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 67-87 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dance Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-7677 • E-ISSN: 1940-509X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0149767721000206 |
| OpenAlex | W3208106804 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 15 |
This essay explores the intersection of concert dance, cultural memory, Black womanhood, and non-linear spacetime from an Afro-European perspective. Inspired by Black feminist methodologies, the text interweaves performance analysis, historical context, interdisciplinary theory including my own concept of perforMemory, and auto-ethnographic experience gained through participant observation. My writing moves along three lines of inquiry tuned in the key of C: contextualizing, conjuring and contemplating. The article offers a case study of I Step on Air , a contemporary dance piece created by Nigerian-German dancer-choreographer Oxana Chi (Berlin/New York) and dedicated to Ghanian-German poet and activist May Ayim. By including an interlude with the choreographer's own creative writing about the piece, the article also provides the reader with the precious perspective of Oxana Chi on her process. The article is a reflection on/of the resonances between movement, writing, and activism. Let's celebrate the power of Black women to resistDance, step by step, move by move, breath by breath
Aesthetics · Art · Contemporary dance · Context (archaeology) · Dance · Ethnography · German · Literature · Perspective (graphical) · Power (physics) · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Gender Studies · History · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Theatre and Performance Studies
Queer Dance
Physics of Blackness
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment
Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left
Physics of Blackness
Grenzenlos und unverschamt
Memory Walking with Urban Bush Women's Batty Moves
IV. Blacking Queer Dance
Butting out
Performing Remains
Resituating the Crossroads
Black Atlantic, Queer Atlantic
As We Have Always Done
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |