Dancing Transnational Feminisms: Ananya Dance Theatre and the Art of Social Justice

Ananya Dance Theatre uses artistic excellence to catalyze social justice, challenging heteronormative patriarchies, white supremacist paradigms, and predatory global capitalism. Dancing Transnational Feminisms explores how dance can be intersectionally reimagined as practice, methodology, and metaphor for feminist solidarity.

Format: Hardback
Length: 296 pages
Publication date: 07 March 2022
Publisher: University of Washington Press

Ananya Dance Theatre has illuminated the transformative power of artistic excellence in driving social justice through its empowering movement that centers the lives, stories, and dreams of marginalized women. This professional dance company, comprised of Black, Brown, and Indigenous gender non-conforming women and femmes of color, challenges heteronormative patriarchies, white supremacist paradigms, and predatory global capitalism with each mesmerizing performance. Through their innovative artistic processes and impactful interventions, they have transformed contemporary concert dance spaces into vibrant sites of empowerment, resistance, and knowledge production.

Dancing Transnational Feminisms, a groundbreaking multigenre exploration, delves into the intersectional reimagining of dance as a practice, methodology, and metaphor for feminist solidarity. Drawing from over fifteen years of collaborative dance-making and deep alliances across communities of color, this collection offers a rich tapestry of essays, stories, interviews, and poems that address pressing issues surrounding race and performance, gender and sexuality, art and politics, global and local inequities, and the responsibilities of artists toward their communities.

Ananya Dance Theatre's unwavering commitment to artistic excellence and their dedication to centering the voices and experiences of marginalized women have sparked a transformative movement that continues to inspire and empower communities worldwide. Through their powerful performances and thought-provoking works, they have demonstrated the profound impact that art can have on shaping a more just and equitable society.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780295749549