Dancing Opacity
Amy Swanson’s Dancing Opacity chronicles the ways in which contemporary dancers in Senegal navigate the global contemporary dance circuit while challenging heteropatriarchal ideologies at home. A longstanding hub of African performing arts, Senegal was at the forefront of the explosion of contempora...
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2025
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| description | Amy Swanson’s Dancing Opacity chronicles the ways in which contemporary dancers in Senegal navigate the global contemporary dance circuit while challenging heteropatriarchal ideologies at home. A longstanding hub of African performing arts, Senegal was at the forefront of the explosion of contemporary dance across the continent at the turn of the twenty-first century. Drawing on ethnographic and historical research, Swanson demonstrates how Senegalese choreographers and dancers contend with entrenched racialized prejudices about Africa outside the continent, while pushing back against repressive regulations of gender and sexuality within Senegal. Swanson employs the concept of opacity, defined as a refusal to adhere to the colonial logic of transparency for dominant gazes and argues that artists create work with multiple layers of meaning that are not meant to be immediately transparent to all viewers. By doing so, these artists evade cultural norms that govern gender and sexual expression in Senegal, while challenging their international audiences to expand their perceptions of African dance. Dancing Opacity highlights the artists’ accounts of their pedagogies, performances, aesthetics, and lived realities, as well as Africanist conceptions of gender, sexuality, and queerness that have yet to be applied to contemporary dance. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1667872025-09-30T05:03:38Z Dancing Opacity Swanson, Amy E. Contemporary dance, contemporary African dance, African contemporary dance, African dance, transnationalism, queer African studies, African gender, African sexuality, Senegalese gender, Senegalese sexuality, Senegal, Senegalese dance, Germaine Acogny, École des Sables, Andréya Ouamba, Compagnie 1er Temps, Ateliers Expériences et Corps AEx Coprs, Fatou Cissé, Ousmane Noël Cissé, opacity, ambiguity, queer aesthetics, queer possibility, neoliberalism, homophobia, French Institute, Biennale de la danse en Afrique, Danse l’Afrique danse, Mudra Afrique Compagnie 1er Temps, Ousmane Noêl Cissé thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATQ Dance Amy Swanson’s Dancing Opacity chronicles the ways in which contemporary dancers in Senegal navigate the global contemporary dance circuit while challenging heteropatriarchal ideologies at home. A longstanding hub of African performing arts, Senegal was at the forefront of the explosion of contemporary dance across the continent at the turn of the twenty-first century. Drawing on ethnographic and historical research, Swanson demonstrates how Senegalese choreographers and dancers contend with entrenched racialized prejudices about Africa outside the continent, while pushing back against repressive regulations of gender and sexuality within Senegal. Swanson employs the concept of opacity, defined as a refusal to adhere to the colonial logic of transparency for dominant gazes and argues that artists create work with multiple layers of meaning that are not meant to be immediately transparent to all viewers. By doing so, these artists evade cultural norms that govern gender and sexual expression in Senegal, while challenging their international audiences to expand their perceptions of African dance. Dancing Opacity highlights the artists’ accounts of their pedagogies, performances, aesthetics, and lived realities, as well as Africanist conceptions of gender, sexuality, and queerness that have yet to be applied to contemporary dance. 2025-09-30T05:03:37Z 2025-09-30T05:03:37Z 2025-09-29T07:26:30Z 2025 book ONIX_20250929T091909_9780472905256_3 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/106135 9780472905256 9780472077663 9780472057665 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/166787 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/106135/1/9780472905256.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.14364645 10.3998/mpub.14364645 b7359529-e5f7-4510-a59f-d7dafa1d4d17 9780472905256 9780472077663 9780472057665 280 open access |
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| topic | Contemporary dance, contemporary African dance, African contemporary dance, African dance, transnationalism, queer African studies, African gender, African sexuality, Senegalese gender, Senegalese sexuality, Senegal, Senegalese dance, Germaine Acogny, École des Sables, Andréya Ouamba, Compagnie 1er Temps, Ateliers Expériences et Corps AEx Coprs, Fatou Cissé, Ousmane Noël Cissé, opacity, ambiguity, queer aesthetics, queer possibility, neoliberalism, homophobia, French Institute, Biennale de la danse en Afrique, Danse l’Afrique danse, Mudra Afrique Compagnie 1er Temps, Ousmane Noêl Cissé thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATQ Dance |
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