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Layla Zami's concept of perforMemory applied to dance creates a fascinating intricate network among historical trauma, diaspora, resistance, and empowerment, moving from embodying the past to representing the present with a vision of the future--expressed so well in Oxana Chi's choreographic work. I love the book's poetic language, and I dove into its linguistic paintings, most new to me and challenging in an intriguing way.--Dr. Dagmar Schulz, Prof. emerita, Alice-Salomon University of Applied Sciences / John F. Kennedy Institute of North American Studies, Freie Universitat Berlin 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.--Prof. Nadine George-Graves, Chair of Dance, Ohio State University 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.--Prof. Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University

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.--Prof. Nadine George-Graves, Chair of Dance, Ohio State University 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.--Prof. Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University

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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).

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