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S. Sörgel
Dance in Transnational Space
Kampnagel - K1
Duration: 16.15-17.00
The historiography of dance in the 21st century is faced with the question of the meaning of dance and identity in the postcolonial age. The choreographer Faustin Linyekula from the Democratic Republic of Congo precisely describes this balancing act of contemporary dance that seeks to elude political appropriation and representation, without being unpolitical for this reason; quite to the contrary: Cosmopolitan positions of contemporary dance stage their own body politics in a transnational space, irrevocably uniting Europe’s and Africa’s past ...
The historiography of dance in the 21st century is faced with the question of the meaning of dance and identity in the postcolonial age. The choreographer Faustin Linyekula from the Democratic Republic of Congo precisely describes this balancing act of contemporary dance that seeks to elude political appropriation and representation, without being unpolitical for this reason; quite to the contrary: Cosmopolitan positions of contemporary dance stage their own body politics in a transnational space, irrevocably uniting Europe’s and Africa’s past history and at the same time generating it anew in a performative way.
Lecture: Sabine Sörgel
Supported by: DFG
Lecture: Sabine Sörgel
Supported by: DFG
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Event location
Kampnagel - K1 Jarrestraße 20 22303 Hamburg [ Winterhude ] www.kampnagel.de Event location - (UK) dance, theatre scholar, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University
