Labs/Theory 

Border-Dancing Across Time

Contemporary Reflections on Nyota Inyoka

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Participants 
The team of Border-Dancing Across Time (Franz Anton Cramer, Sandra Chatterjee, Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar, Nicole Haitzinger), Amanda Piña, Linda Samaraweerová, Lina Venegas, Eike Wittrock  


This lab is a cooperation between the Centre National de la Danse paris (Aide à la recherche et au patrimoine en danse 2020) and the FWF project Border-Dancing Across Time (P 31958) by the Department of Music and Dance Studies at the Paris Lodron University Salzburg. 

Border-Dancing Across Time

Contemporary Reflections on Nyota Inyoka

Based on the biography and work of French dancer and choreographer Nyota Inyoka (1896–1971), we will discuss the authorial position of Women of Colour in dance historiographies. Through re-enactments, using notes, sketches, photographs and texts, we will study and explore Inyoka’s choreographic oeuvre. In response to this and in conversation with theoretical positions, we will investigate to what extent ‘contemporary dance’ can be situated within a matrix of colonial modernism even today, because dancers, movement and composition systems and aesthetic principles deemed culturally or ethnically ‘other’ are still being excluded. We will therefore also address the urgent need to decolonise historiographies and archives.

This lab is the second instalment in our research series Imaging otherwise – Invention of the present, which started with Tonica Hunter’s Aesthetics of Resistance in November 2020. Ligia Lewis will contribute to this series in April. Imaging otherwise creates a space for choreographic research and performance, with its eyes set on a political goal and dedicated to the fight against social inequality.

Credits

Participants 
The team of Border-Dancing Across Time (Franz Anton Cramer, Sandra Chatterjee, Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar, Nicole Haitzinger), Amanda Piña, Linda Samaraweerová, Lina Venegas, Eike Wittrock  


This lab is a cooperation between the Centre National de la Danse paris (Aide à la recherche et au patrimoine en danse 2020) and the FWF project Border-Dancing Across Time (P 31958) by the Department of Music and Dance Studies at the Paris Lodron University Salzburg. 
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