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Remembering Nyota Inyoka: Queering Narratives of Dance, Archive, and Biography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2022
Abstract
In this article, the three co-authors collaboratively address practices of queering in relation to the Parisian choreographer of color Nyota Inyoka (1896–1971), whose biography and identity remain mysterious even after extensive research. Writing from three different research perspectives and relating to three different aspects of her life and work, the co-authors analyze Nyota Inyoka and practices of Queering the Archive, her staging of Shiva as a performance of (culturally) “queer possibility,” and the act of remembering Nyota Inyoka in a contemporary context in terms of queering ethnicity and “cultural belonging.” Juxtaposing and interweaving notions and practices of queering and créolité/creolizing over the course of the article, the co-authors attempt to respect Nyota Inyoka's “right to opacity” (Glissant [1996] 2020, 45) and remember her on her own terms.
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- Dance Research Journal , Volume 54 , Special Issue 2: Speculations on the Queerness of Dance Modernism , August 2022 , pp. 11 - 32
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Advertisement for a showing of the film “Au delà des Lois humaines” by Marcel Dumont and Gaston Roudès. France: Gallo Films, 1920. In Marseille on April 22 to 28, 1921. Bibliothèque nationale de France, 8° RK-1895.Google Scholar
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Fonds Nyota Inyoka. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, COL-119.Google Scholar
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Amin, Kadji. 2016. “Haunted by the 1990s: Queer Theory's Affective Histories.” In WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly 44 (3–4): 173–189. doi:10.1353/wsq.2016.0041.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Appadurai, Arjun. 2003. “Archive and Aspiration.” In Information Is Alive, edited by Brouwer, Jake and Mulder, Arjen, 14–25. Rotterdam: VZ Publishing.Google Scholar
Balibar, Étienne. 1994. Masses, Classes, Ideas: Studies on Politics and Philosophy Before and After Marx. New York: Routledge.Google Scholar
Burt, Ramsay. 2003. “Memory, Repetition and Critical Intervention.” Performance Research 8 (2): 34–41. doi: 10.1080/13528165.2003.10871925.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chatterjee, Sandra. 2014. “Restaging Indian Dance: Zwischen Tradition, Moderne und Postkolonialität.” In Tanz & Archiv: Forschungsreisen, derra dance research 5: Mobile Notate, edited by Brandenburg, Irene, Haitzinger, Nicole, and Jeschke, Claudia, 164–181. München, Ger.: epodium.Google Scholar
Chatterjee, Sandra. 2018. “Kulturelle Gleichzeitigkeit – Zeitgenössischer Tanz aus Postmigrantischer Perspektive.” In Postmigrantische Visionen. Erfahrungen – Ideen – Reflexionen, edited by Marc Hill and Erol Yildiz, 199–206. Bielefeld, Ger.: transcript Verlag. Originally published 2017 on corpusweb.net. http://www.corpusweb.net/kulturelle-gleichzeitigkeit.html.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chatterjee, Sandra, and Lee, Cynthia Ling. 2017. “‘our love was not enough’: Queering Desire, Gender, and Cultural Belonging in Contemporary Abhinaya.” In Meanings and Makings of Queer Dance, edited by Croft, Clare, 45–65. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Cohen, Matthew Isaac. 2010. Performing Otherness: Java and Bali on International Stages, 1905–1952. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cramer, Franz Anton. 2021a. “Archival Turn? Zum zeitgenössischen Archivbegriff.” In Bewegen, Aufzeichnen, Aufheben, Ausstellen: Archivprozesse der Aufführungskünste. Ein Arbeitsbuch, edited by Büscher, Barbara and Cramer, Franz Anton, 13–23. Leipzig, Ger.: Qucosa.Google Scholar
Cramer, Franz Anton. 2021b. “Nyota Inyoka, Biographie, Archiv. Über das Forschungsprojekt ‘Border-Dancing Across Time.’” MAP #11, Bewegliche Zugänge: Werk-Geschichte(n) und temporäre Orte, February 2021. Accessed January 11, 2022. http://www.perfomap.de/map11/werk-geschichten/nyota-inyoka-biographie-archiv.Google Scholar
Croft, Clare, ed. 2017. Meanings and Makings of Queer Dance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Denishoff, Dennis, ed. 1993. Queeries: An Anthology of Gay Male Prose. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.Google Scholar
Derrida, Jacques. 1996. Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
El-Tayeb, Fatima. 2011a. European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
El-Tayeb, Fatima. 2011b. “The Forces of Creolization, Colorblindness and Visible Minorities in the New Europe.” In The Creolization of Theory, edited by Lionnet, Francois and Shu-mei, Shih, 226–252. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.Google Scholar
Eng, David L., and Han, Shinhee. 2000. “A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia.” Psychoanalytic Dialogues 10 (4): 667–700.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fourmaux, Francine. 2009. Belles de Paris: Une ethnologie du music-hall. Paris: Éditions du CTHS.Google Scholar
Glissant, Édouard. 1989. Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays. Charlottesville, VA: CARAF Books.Google Scholar
Glissant, Édouard. (1996) 2020. Introduction to a Poetics of Diversity. Translated by Britton, Celia. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hall, Stuart. 2003. “Creolization, Diaspora, and Hybridity in the Context of Globalization.” In Créolité and Creolization, edited by Enwezor, Okwui, Basualdo, Carlos, Bauer, Ute Meta, Ghez, Susanne, Maharaj, Sarat, Nash, Mark, and Zaya, Octavio, 185–189. Ostfildern-Ruit, Ger.: Hatje Cantz.Google Scholar
Légeret, Katia, ed. 2014. Rodin et la danse de Çiva. Saint-Denis, Paris: Presses universitaires de Vincennes.Google Scholar
Légeret-Manochhaya, Katia. 2016. Rodin and the Dance of Shiva. New Delhi: Niyogi Books.Google Scholar
Lionnet, Francois, and Shu-mei, Shih, eds. 2011. The Creolization of Theory. Durham, NC: Duke University PressGoogle Scholar
López Arnáiz, Irene. Forthcoming. “La Danse de Śiva d'Auguste Rodin à Nyota Inyoka. La métaphore de la cosmogonie et de la création artistique.” In La Danse de Shiva: icône du rhythme et langage des gestes entre l'Inde, l'Europe et les États-Unis, edited by Leucci, Tiziana and Rousseleau, Raphaël. Paris: Les Indes Savantes.Google Scholar
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Mercer, Kobena. 1990. “Black Art and the Burden of Representation.” In Third Text: Third World Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture 4 (10): 61–78.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Muñoz, José Esteban. 1999. Disidentifications: Queers of Colors and the Performance of Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.Google Scholar
Muñoz, José Esteban. 2009. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. New York: New York University Press.Google Scholar
Palladini, Giulia, and Pustianaz, Marco, eds. 2017. Lexicon for an Affective Archive. Bristol, UK: Intellect.Google Scholar
Piña, Amanda. 2021. “Hosting the Re-appearance of Nyota Inyoka. An Anatomy of the White Gaze.” In Contemporary Reflections on Nyota Inyoka, edited by Chatterjee, Sandra, Cramer, Franz Anton, Vivar, Christina Gillinger-Correa, Haitzinger, Nicole, and Piña, Amanda, 8–14. Accessed April 19, 2022. https://www.cnd.fr/fr/file/file/2023/inline/Reflexions%20contemporaine%20sur%20Nyota%20Inyoka.pdf.Google Scholar
Plate, Liedeke, and Smelik, Anneke. 2013. Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture: An Introduction. New York: Routledge.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Quadrone, E. 1926. “Nyota Inyoka, la danzatrice italiana.” La Stampa di Torino, February 23.Google Scholar
Reid-Pharr, Robert. 2016. Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique. New York: New York University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Roudanez, Loulou. 1947. Nyota Inyoka. Paris: J. Susse (= Des danseurs qui sortent du cadre Vol. 1).Google Scholar
Sinha, Ajay. 2017. “Iconology of a Photograph.” Art and Vernacular Photographies in Asia 8 (1). http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.7977573.0008.106.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Verma, Archana. 2011. Performance and Culture: Narrative, Image and Enactment in India. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars.Google Scholar
Vincelette, Elizabeth J. 2018. “Subjectivity and Methodology in the Arch‘I've.” disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory 27 (July): 55–70. doi: 10.13023/disclosure.27.11.Google Scholar
Warner, Michael. 1992. “From Queer to Eternity: An Army of Theorists Cannot Fail.” Village Voice Literary Supplement 106 (June): 18–19.Google Scholar
Zepeda, Lizeth. 2018. “Queering the Archive: Transforming the Archival Process.” disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory 27 (July): 94–102. doi: 10.13023/disclosure.27.14.Google Scholar