»An immense and deeply moving contribution. Zami's unwavering attention to transparency in her approach and the honesty in her writing shines through. This work is rigorous, nuanced, and poetic – reaching beyond the confines of disciplinarity to illuminate the power of bodies in motion to recall, resist, and rewrite.«

»Das Buch von Layla Zami ist eine wertvolle Erweiterung sowie Verbindung tanzwissenschaftlichen Wissens mit kulturellen Forschungen zu Diaspora, Erinnerung und Trauma.«

»Layla Zami's book is a valuable expansion of dance studies with cultural research on diaspora, memory and trauma.«

»Carefully thought out and clearly written and presented, ›Contemporary PerforMemory‹ makes a significant contribution to several fields: memory studies, dance studies, postcolonial studies, diaspora studies, affect studies, as well as scholarly reflections on the archive, on embodiment, the emotions and movement, all from an informed, critical feminist perspective. Zami makes surprising connections that reveal important resonances between shared histories of remembrance.«

»Zami is committed to a rigorous methodology in order to think through and theorize contemporary dance in diaspora. Her book is intercultural and cross-cultural and demonstrates an understanding of race and gender from the perspective of someone who can think globally. This, combined with a discerning critical eye for reading unique contemporary performance, has yielded a remarkable body of research.«

Layla Zami (Dr. phil., Dipl.-Pol.) is Postdoctoral Researcher in Performance Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, where she works in the Collaborative Research Center on Intervening Arts. Zami spent several years as a Visiting Assistant and later Adj. Associate Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute in New York, and teaches at Pratt Berlin. As an Interdisciplinary Artist-in-Residence with Oxana Chi Dance & Art, Zami creates and performs music/sounds, spoken words, and physical theater in dialogue with the choreography. She holds a PhD from the Center for Trandisciplinary Gender Studies at Humboldt-University in Berlin, where she was awarded a Teaching Quality Prize for her seminar Performing Memory. She serves on the Editorial Board of *Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies* (DSA).

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
PREFACE 7
TUNING IN: OF STORY-HUNTERS AND DANCING LIONS 11
1 MEMORY DANCESCAPES 53
2 DIASPORIC MOVES 101
3 DANCING THE PAST IN THE PRESENT TENSE 143
4 DANCE DIALOGUES: IN CONVERSATION WITH 195
TU(R)NING OUT: TRANSFORMING THE BODY INTO A SPACETIME OF RESIST(D)ANCE 265
Bibliography 273