The concept of 'Third World' unity emerged in the mid-twen tieth century as a way of forging political alliances and solidarities amon g Asian\, African\, and Latin American people\, by focusing on shared exper iences of colonial history\, racism\, and decolonial struggle and imagining possibilities for global interaction beyond the bipolar Cold War framework .
In this talk\, Wilcox explores uses of performance\, especially dan ce\, to build and enact transnational alliances across differences. Through examples such as a 1964 Chinese dance drama about the US Civil Rights Move ment and the Asia-Africa-Latin America programs of China’s Oriental Song an d Dance Ensemble (est. 1962)\, Wilcox asks what it meant to choreograph all iances with transnational communities in Mao-era China.
Date & Time: Tuesday\, O
ctober 11\, 2022 | 5:00-6:30 PM (PDT)
Location: Room
604 (seminar room)\, UBC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver (map here
)
Registration: Registration is required. Please
RSVP using the link at the bottom of this page (or click here).
This fr ee event is co-sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies and the Departm ent of Theatre & Film of the University of British Columbia.
Emil
y Wilcox is Associate Professor and Director of Chinese Studies at Will
iam & Mary. Wilcox’s first book\, Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the
Socialist Legacy (University of California Press\, 2018)\, won th
e 2019 de la Torre Bueno Prize© from the Dance Studies Association. Wilcox
is co-editor of Corporeal Politics: Dancing East Asia (University
of Michigan Press\, 2020) and co-creator of the University of Michigan Chin
ese Dance Collection.
Wilcox is a 2021-2023 Public Intellectuals Prog ram Fellow at the National Committee on US-China Relations and a recipient of a 2022 Scholar Grant from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for Internatio nal Scholarly Exchange. Her new co-edited collection\, Teaching Film fr om the People's Republic of China\, is forthcoming from the Modern Lan guage Association Options for Teaching series.
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