'Les Chers Enfants' sans Papa

Harney, Elizabeth

doi:10.1093/oxartj/19.1.42

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“…Though some performers from that generation stayed abroad, many more returned and tried their best to fit in within a soon-declining state apparatus. The transition to the difficult years of the Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) generated a strong nostalgia for the Senghorian years, when artists were the regime's ‘darlings’ (Harney 1996). Travels were meant to provide additional resources (in terms of skills, networks and money) to create a modern Senegalese society.…”

Section: The First Generation: the ‘Cosmopolitan Nationalists’mentioning

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Choreographic Performance, Generations and the Art of Life in Post-Colonial Dakar

Kringelbach¹

2014

Africa

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This article looks at three generations of choreographic performers in urban Senegal to examine the creative ways in which people develop their bodily skills, not only for the pleasure of innovation, but also to ‘make their way into the world’. In so doing, they produce new social spaces and engage with a multiplicity of existing ones. I suggest that this multiple engagement characterizes contemporary urban Africa, where social mobility is conceived of as multiplying the possibilities of building a decent life in spite of economic hardship. In West Africa, this is in continuity with a long history of social mobility achieved through travel and the acquisition of new skills. Through a multiple engagement with different genres, performers also experiment with new ways of producing choreographic work. At every juncture, the social spaces thus produced either intensify or reduce the connections with global spaces already laid out by previous generations.

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Section: The First Generation: the ‘Cosmopolitan Nationalists’mentioning

confidence: 99%

“… 7 In naming this generation I have drawn inspiration from Harney's (1996) metaphorical description of visual artists in 1990s Senegal as the ‘dear children without their father’, in reference to Senghor stepping down as President in 1980 and to the shrinking of state patronage.…”

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