Mariama Diagne, Prof. Dr.
Saturday 19th July
11:55 - 12:40
GMT +1
The Dancing Body as a Space of Resistance . Let's Spell R-E-S-I-S-T-A-N-C-E together!
Biography / Biografía
Prof. Dr. Mariama Diagne is a professor of dance studies and performance at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Her research involves analyses such as re-readings of the performing arts, and she develops methodical anti-colonial perspectives on the canon and the present. She shares her expertise on the editorial board of the Studies in Dance series (Dance Research Journal), as associate editor (section “dance”) of the Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene (Springer Nature), on the steering board of NFDI4C (Performing Arts), and as a jury member of the German Dance Prize.
Abstract / Resumen
In a performative talk we explore the dancing body as a site of resistance. The word 'resistance' is our starting point with each letter representing an embodied concept:
R – Ritual
E – Embodiment
S – Sensuality
I – Improvisation
S – Survival
T – Transcendence
A – Ancestry
N – Nurture
C – Care
E – Entanglement
Through an embodied alphabet, we aim to co-create knowledge that resists violent systems of fragmentation, blending academic reflection, poetry, gesture, memory, and dance to explore how resistance breathes in the moving body. We invite the audience to expand conversations around decoloniality, care, and embodied knowledge, reclaiming dance as a radical, relational, and reparative act.