Through empowered movement that centers the lives, stories, and dreams
of marginalized women, Ananya Dance Theatre has revealed how the
practice of and commitment to artistic excellence can catalyze social
justice. With each performance, this professional dance company of
Black, Brown, and Indigenous gender non-conforming women and femmes of
color challenges heteronormative patriarchies, white supremacist
paradigms, and predatory global capitalism. Their creative artistic
processes and vital interventions have transformed the spaces of
contemporary concert dance into sites of empowerment, resistance, and
knowledge production.
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.