 Butting out: reading resistive choreographies through works by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Chandralekha.
Author: Chatterjea, Ananya Published: 2004 Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Chandralekha are major choreographers of the 20th century, whose work will leave the dance field with a legacy as important and strong as that of Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey. Zollar is artistic director of the New York company The Urban Bush Women and Chandralekha is an Indian choreographer who has performed internationally and is known for her radical mixing of postmodern and traditional dance forms. In this nuanced and in-depth study, Ananya Chatterjea shows how each of these choreographers has positioned herself through performance in terms of gender, race, and nationality. Reading each dancer's major works in order to assess their unique contributions to the development of global culture, Butting Out does important theoretical work to identify common threads in the history of cultural production and the aesthetic philosophies of the artists. | 
