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AUTOR(ES) Abigail Swanson
ANO 2024
TIPO Artigo
PERIÓDICO African Studies Review
ISSN 0002-0206
E-ISSN 1752-9016
EDITORA Cambridge University Press
DOI 10.1017/asr.2024.69
ADICIONADO EM 2025-08-18

Resumo

African contemporary choreographers increasingly delink from Eurocentric performance conventions and work toward establishing local conditions of production and consumption by performing in public spaces. Although the labor undertaken to shift power asymmetries does not always result in structural changes, their art may be considered decolonial creative expression. Based on ethnographic research at the third and fourth editions (2022 and 2023) of Fatou Cissé's street performance festival, La ville en mouv'ment (The City in Movement), in Dakar, Senegal, the author argues that decolonial potentiality extends beyond the precarious economic conditions to encapsulate the artists' return to public space and futurist aesthetics.

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