Choreographic Disseminations

Mariano Cinque

doi:10.6093/978-88-6719-275-5

Choreographic Disseminations: Women’s Postcolonial Body Writings

Authors

Mariano Cinque

University of Naples L'Orientale

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6719-275-5

Keywords:

Choreography, Feminism, Postcolonial, Body-archive, Decontruction

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Postcolonial Matters

Pages: 290

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-29178

Abstract: Choreographic Disseminations. Women’s Postcolonial Body Writings gathers some reflections around the study of female and postcolonial dance and cultural memory. The volume chooses to observe and transcribe the poethics of women’s dances, multiplied in the genres and in the differences of their identities and languages. More specifically, the volume studies the works of the Anglo-Indian choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh, as well as those of the South African performer Nelisiwe Xaba, the sens-able dances that Celeste Dandeker initiates, and the visual creations of the Anglo-Spanish director and moving image artist Isabel Rocamora. Their arts intertwine with the choreographic scheme of my thoughts on the body that dances and scripturally archives the experimental memory of female agency; in doing so, their works also resonate with the critical and theoretical movements of Cultural and Postcolonial Studies. The book envisages and imagines the creation of a matri-archive of dance, a different way of preserving and transmitting this art otherwise, that is through the history of the women who hold its memory.

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Author Biography

Mariano Cinque, University of Naples L'Orientale

Annalisa Piccirillo holds a PhD in “Cultural and Postcolonial Studies of the Anglophone World” (UniOr). She is a member of the Centre for Postcolonial and Gender Studies and of the Research Unit M.A.M. Matriarchivio del Mediterraneo. Thanks to two Post-docs obtained in 2012 and 2014, she led the research project “New practices of memory: Mediterranean matri-archives”, dedicating herself to the investigation of archiving practices of female performances in circulation in the Euro-Mediterranean area. From 2018 to 2021, she has been Research Fellow for the project “Archives of difference: archaeological and architectural performance in the Mediterranean” (UniOr). She has been Friedrich Hölderlin Guest Professor at the Institute of Theatre, Film and Media of the Goethe University (Frankfurt, Germany), Lecturer in “History of Dance” (UniSa, Salerno), and in “English Literature” (UniBas, Potenza). She conducts curatorial projects and collaborates as dramaturg with international artists and choreographers.