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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Foreword by D. Soyini Madison
Acknowledgments

Dancing and Writing Together
Feminist Embodiments, Transnational Solidarities
Ananya Chatterjea, Hui Niu Wilcox, and Alessandra Lebea Williams

PART I. MULTIPLE IDENTITIES: SHARED DREAMS OF COLLECTIVE DANCING
1. Historical Ruminations: Breath, Heat, and Movement-Building
Ananya Chatterjea

2. "It's Been My Community": Interview with Gina Lynn Kaur Kundan
Alessandra Lebea Williams

3. Ananya Dance Theatre as Social Justice Experiment: Where We Were in 2005, Where We Are Now
Shannon Gibney

4. The Gone Bird Song
Chitra Vairavan

5. Dance of the Spiraling Generations: On Love and Healing with Ananya Dance Theatre
Hui Niu Wilcox

PART II. EMBODYING SOLIDARITIES AND INTERSECTIONS: BLACK AND BROWN DANCING

6. Femininity, Breaking That Boundary: Interview with Orlando Zane Hunter Jr.
Alessandra Lebea Williams

7. Loving Deeply: Black and Brown Women and Femmes in the Theatrical Jazz Aesthetic of Laurie Carlos and the Yorchhā Practice of Ananya Dance Theatre
Alessandra Lebea Williams

8. Emerald City
Renée Copeland

9. Dancing Black Militancies: Written Meditation on Performance, Black(female)ness, and Dance as Ecological Resistance in Ananya Dance Theatre
Zenzele Isoke, with Naimah Petigny

PART III. TRANSGRESSING SPACE AND BORDERS: LOCAL POLITICS, TRANSNATIONAL EPISTEMES

10. Mindful Space-Making: Crossing Boundaries with Ananya Dance Theatre
Surafel Wondimu Abebe

11. Speculative Choreography: Futures of Feminist Food Justice and Sovereignty
Jigna Desai

12. Musings on Crossing: Ananya Dance Theatre in Addis Ababa
Hui Niu Wilcox

13. Ananya Dance Theatre and the Twin Cities: Community and Dance
David Mura

14. Forecast
Mankwe Ndosi

PART IV. AGAINST CATEGORIES OF TIME: HISTORY, TRADITION, CONTEMPORARY DANCE

15. This Stage Is Not a Safe Space
Thomas F. DeFrantz

16. My Work Is Worth the Struggle
Sherie C. M. Apungu

17. Ananya Dance Theatre in the Genealogy of Women of Color Feminism
Roderick A. Ferguson

18. Absence/Presence/Silence/Noise
Toni Shapiro-Phim

PART V. IMAGINING RESISTANCE AND HOPE

19. A Politics of Hope: Letters, Dance, and Dreams
Patricia DeRocher, Simi Kang, and Richa Nagar

20. A Personal Reckoning: Reflections from Duurbaar to Mohona
Brenda Dixon-Gottschild

21. Fire from Dry Grass
Nimo Hussein Farah

22. Affirmation
Ananya Chatterjea

List of Contributors
Index

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      Publisher: University of Washington Press
      Publication Date: 21/01/2022
      ISBN13: 9780295749549, 978-0295749549
      ISBN10: 0295749547
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      List of Illustrations
      Foreword by D. Soyini Madison
      Acknowledgments

      Dancing and Writing Together
      Feminist Embodiments, Transnational Solidarities
      Ananya Chatterjea, Hui Niu Wilcox, and Alessandra Lebea Williams

      PART I. MULTIPLE IDENTITIES: SHARED DREAMS OF COLLECTIVE DANCING
      1. Historical Ruminations: Breath, Heat, and Movement-Building
      Ananya Chatterjea

      2. "It's Been My Community": Interview with Gina Lynn Kaur Kundan
      Alessandra Lebea Williams

      3. Ananya Dance Theatre as Social Justice Experiment: Where We Were in 2005, Where We Are Now
      Shannon Gibney

      4. The Gone Bird Song
      Chitra Vairavan

      5. Dance of the Spiraling Generations: On Love and Healing with Ananya Dance Theatre
      Hui Niu Wilcox

      PART II. EMBODYING SOLIDARITIES AND INTERSECTIONS: BLACK AND BROWN DANCING

      6. Femininity, Breaking That Boundary: Interview with Orlando Zane Hunter Jr.
      Alessandra Lebea Williams

      7. Loving Deeply: Black and Brown Women and Femmes in the Theatrical Jazz Aesthetic of Laurie Carlos and the Yorchhā Practice of Ananya Dance Theatre
      Alessandra Lebea Williams

      8. Emerald City
      Renée Copeland

      9. Dancing Black Militancies: Written Meditation on Performance, Black(female)ness, and Dance as Ecological Resistance in Ananya Dance Theatre
      Zenzele Isoke, with Naimah Petigny

      PART III. TRANSGRESSING SPACE AND BORDERS: LOCAL POLITICS, TRANSNATIONAL EPISTEMES

      10. Mindful Space-Making: Crossing Boundaries with Ananya Dance Theatre
      Surafel Wondimu Abebe

      11. Speculative Choreography: Futures of Feminist Food Justice and Sovereignty
      Jigna Desai

      12. Musings on Crossing: Ananya Dance Theatre in Addis Ababa
      Hui Niu Wilcox

      13. Ananya Dance Theatre and the Twin Cities: Community and Dance
      David Mura

      14. Forecast
      Mankwe Ndosi

      PART IV. AGAINST CATEGORIES OF TIME: HISTORY, TRADITION, CONTEMPORARY DANCE

      15. This Stage Is Not a Safe Space
      Thomas F. DeFrantz

      16. My Work Is Worth the Struggle
      Sherie C. M. Apungu

      17. Ananya Dance Theatre in the Genealogy of Women of Color Feminism
      Roderick A. Ferguson

      18. Absence/Presence/Silence/Noise
      Toni Shapiro-Phim

      PART V. IMAGINING RESISTANCE AND HOPE

      19. A Politics of Hope: Letters, Dance, and Dreams
      Patricia DeRocher, Simi Kang, and Richa Nagar

      20. A Personal Reckoning: Reflections from Duurbaar to Mohona
      Brenda Dixon-Gottschild

      21. Fire from Dry Grass
      Nimo Hussein Farah

      22. Affirmation
      Ananya Chatterjea

      List of Contributors
      Index

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