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(Il)legible Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Contemporary Dance in Senegal
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| 자료유형 | 학위논문 |
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| 서명/저자사항 | (Il)legible Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Contemporary Dance in Senegal. |
| 개인저자 | Swanson, Amy Elizabeth. |
| 단체저자명 | Northwestern University. Theatre and Drama. |
| 발행사항 | [S.l.]: Northwestern University., 2019. |
| 발행사항 | Ann Arbor: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019. |
| 형태사항 | 313 p. |
| 기본자료 저록 | Dissertations Abstracts International 81-02A. Dissertation Abstract International |
| ISBN | 9781085603423 |
| 학위논문주기 | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2019. |
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Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-02, Section: A.
Advisor: Manning, Susan. |
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| 요약 | 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 globally and those locally accepted, about gender and sexuality as they intersect with blackness, Africanness, and Islam. This project examines pedagogical models and select performances by a number of artists at the forefront of contemporary dance in Senegal, including Germaine Acogny and her Ecole des Sables, Andreya Ouamba, and Fatou Cisse among others. It follows a recent trend by contemporary choreographers to center women, gender fluidity, and dissident sexuality in their work against a backdrop of increasing sexual regulation in the public sphere. The project draws connections between the artists' present-day pedagogy and choreography and a broad reorientation away from ethnocentric dance models and towards new forms of internationalization in the 1970s-1980s. I argue that the local-global entanglement and experimentations with gender and sexuality are mutually constitutive characteristics of contemporary dance in Senegal. Contemporary choreographers adhere to a philosophy of danser autrement, or dancing otherwise, as they offer performances that play with the boundaries of gender and sexual legibility. Choreographers tactfully negotiate the realities of increased sexual regulation and neoliberalism in Senegal just as they negotiate the demands placed upon their racially marked bodies on international stages to create space for alternative ways of being on the stage and in the world.Primarily based on ethnographic research, my findings draw from approximately eighty interviews with artists and arts administrators, participant-observation in workshops, observations during rehearsals and performances, and performance reviews, programs, and other materials collected from public and private archives in Senegal and France. This project deploys theories of African postcolonial cultural production and theories of gender and sexuality deriving from the African continent to understand the potentiality of performances that challenge existing gender and sexual frameworks, recuperate indigenous performatives, and imagine alternatives. This project seeks to expand understandings of the transnational circulation of concert dance, the significance of the multiple meaning-making capacity of contemporary dance, and the ways in which gender and sexuality are imagined in Senegal outside of dominant culture. |
| 일반주제명 | Dance. African studies. Gender studies. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
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