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Contemporary African dance theatre : phenomenology, whiteness, and the gaze /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sörgel, Sabine
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Series:New world choreographies.
Subjects:
Dance > Social aspects > Africa.
Race relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • 1 This Is Not a Book About African Dance
  • White Spectatorship, Race, and the Violence of the Gaze
  • Material Phenomenology: Dance, Affect and the Alien
  • References
  • 2 Sources and Vocabularies of Contemporary African Dance Theatre Aesthetics
  • Drums at the Museum: Alphonse Tiérou's Alphabet of African Dance
  • Rhythm, Philosophy and the Dance of Life: Zab Maboungou's RYPADA
  • Un-suturing Whiteness I: De/Liberate Gestures
  • Dancing Inside the Frame and Outside the Box: Two Solos by Germaine Acogny
  • Un-suturing Whiteness II: Somewhere at the Beginning and My Black Chosen One
  • References
  • 3 White Supremacy, Necropolitics and Anti-Capitalist Dance
  • Faustin Linyekula and Studios Kabako (Democratic Republic of Congo)
  • Un-suturing III: More, More, More ... Future! (2009)
  • From Abidjan to Berlin: Franck Edmond Yao's Logobi (Ivory Coast/Germany)
  • Un-suturing Whiteness IV: Logobi #3 and Logobi #4
  • Gregory Maqoma and Vuyani Dance Theatre (South Africa)
  • Un-suturing Whiteness V: Exit/Exist (2011/2012)
  • References
  • 4 Mistaken Identity: Deconstructing White Beauty and Gender Politics
  • Interrogating Whiteness from Within: Robyn Orlin (South Africa)
  • Un-suturing Whiteness VII: Beauty remained for just a moment then returned gently to her starting position ...
  • Atlantic Crossings: Nora Chipaumire (Zimbabwe/US)
  • Un-suturing Whiteness VI: Miriam and portrait of myself as my father
  • Un-suturing Whiteness VIII: Alesandra Seutin's Dance of Ambivalence
  • The Un-suturing of Universal Whiteness: Beyond Identity Politics?
  • References
  • 5 Collaborative Blindness: Funding, Failure and the Ethics of Collaboration
  • Susanne Linke and Company Jant-Bi's Le Coq est mort (1999)
  • Steptext Dance Project/Vuyani Dance Theatre's Out of Joint (2017)
  • Salia Sanou and Seydou Boro (Burkina Faso)
  • Un-suturing Whiteness IX: Desire for Horizons
  • References
  • 6 This Is a Book About Whiteness and the Gaze
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • Index