ANANYA DANCE THEATRE IN THE GENEALOGY OF WOMEN OF COLOR FEMINISM

IN HER ARTICLE “CREATING A NEW, CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN Dance,” Ananya Dance Theatre founder and artistic director Ananya Chatterjea grounds her vision of what a “new, contemporary American dance” could look like in the memories of the Kolkata streets that were—once upon a time—her home. She writes, “Like those streets where a multinational bank stands beside a small, broken-down shrine and women’s groups perform street theatre at the bus stop outside my guru’s classical dance studio, my urban aesthetic is imbued with spiritual possibilities, and my work is in dialogue with the secular and the political.”¹ In this memory