Dance, Gender, and Activism in Pakistan: Interview with Performer-Activist Sheema Kermani
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Sheema Kermani (1951-) is a performer and activist based in Karachi, Pakistan. Through her organisation, <i>Tehrik-e-Niswan</i> she has worked towards raising awareness of violence against women women’s empowerment. cultural organisation invested social justice through the arts. As dancer theatre actor, uses training, choreography, pedagogy to foreground potential performing Scholarship on dance political activism within larger global context (for example South Africa New Zealand) have focussed dance’s ‘to further compassionate communities’ (Shapiro, 2013: 15) its power envision, move create change.’ 2016: 3) Within contexts UK USA, scholarship protest encompassed historical enquiries (Mills, 2021), politics representation, place, identity (Prickett, 2013) embodied choreographies (Foster, 2003). In Asian context, as counter-hegemonic communal informed works artist-activist, Mallika Sarabhai India (Grau, 2007). This interview with follows existing strands research by focussing specifically talks about own art history, formative years influences feminist Marxist movements, continuing work for Pakistan wake rising religious fundamentalism, gender atrocities, forced migrations climate crisis.
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عنوان ژورنال: Feminist encounters
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2468-4414']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20897/femenc/12889