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“Dancing Transnational Feminisms” Book Celebration
A celebration of Dancing Transnational Feminisms, with keynote addresses provided by Brenda Dixon-Gottschild and Thomas F. DeFrantz, and panel discussion lead by Alessandra Williams, Ananya Chatterjea, and Hui Niu Wilcox.
About the Book
Published January 2022 by University of Washington Press and drawing from more than fifteen years of collaborative dance-making and sustained dialogues based on deep alliances across communities of color, “Dancing Transnational Feminisms“ offers a multigenre exploration of how dance can be intersectionally reimagined as practice, methodology, and metaphor for feminist solidarity. Blending essays with stories, interviews, and poems, this collection explores timely questions surrounding race and performance, gender and sexuality, art and politics, global and local inequities, and the responsibilities of artists toward their communities.
Panel Guests
- Keynote Speaker: Brenda Dixon-Gottschild, Professor Emerita of dance studies, Temple University
- Keynote Speaker: Thomas F. DeFrantz, Research Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies, Duke University
- Co-Author: Ananya Chatterjea, Professor of Dance at the University of Minnesota, Artistic Director of Ananya Dance Theatre
- Co-Author: Hui Niu Wilcox, Professor of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and Critical Studies of Race/Ethnicity at St. Catherine University
- Co-Author: Alessandra Williams, Assistant Professor of Dance, Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts
Ananya Chatterjea is artistic director of Ananya Dance Theatre, Professor of Dance at the University of Minnesota, and author of her second book, Heat and Alterity in Contemporary Dance.
Hui Niu Wilcox, Ph.D. is Professor of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and Critical Studies of Race/Ethnicity at St. Catherine University, and was a dance artist with Ananya Dance Theatre from 2004-2020. Her research has been focused on sociology of dance especially in connection to immigrant identities, race/ethnicity, multiculturalism, and transnational feminisms.
Alessandra Williams is an assistant professor of dance at Rutgers University-New Brunswick who researches dance, transnational feminism and queer performance, and African American and Asian American culture. Her fellowships include the Inclusive Excellence Fellowship (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater 2018–19), Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship (University of California, Los Angeles 2010–14), and the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (Macalester College 2005–07). She has performed with the Ananya Dance Theatre company. Her current book project explores queer sexuality, gender, and race through dances and films by David Roussève/REALITY dance company.