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Surreal Black Beauty: Risk, Difficulty, and Alterity in Contemporary Black Feminist Performance

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Black women performers have made, and continue to make, contributions to the U.S.-avant-garde performance canon and Black performance traditions that go largely unaccounted for in academic studies. Research has shown that across temporalities, Black women performers have mobilized experimental avant-garde aesthetics to disrupt and refuse essentialized notions of Blackness in...

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Avant-garde performance, Performance studies, and Black feminism

Subject:

African American studies, Gender studies, and Performing arts

Creator:

Webb, Chaunesti Nichelle

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

06/22/2022

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2022-01-01

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Dissertation

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etdadmin_upload_903678 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16104
(Il)legible Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Contemporary Dance in Senegal

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This dissertation elucidates the contemporary dance studio and stage in twenty-first century Senegal as privileged sites of knowledge production about gender and sexuality. Entangled within local and global dance lineages, funding structures, and modes of circulation, contemporary choreographers perform their bodies in ways that challenge predominant narratives, both those imagined...

Keyword:

Sexuality, Gender, Contemporary dance, Performance studies, Senegal, and Germaine Acogny

Subject:

Gender studies, Dance, and African studies

Creator:

Swanson, Amy Elizabeth

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/12/2020

Date Created:

2019-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_662490 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14644

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