
Ananya Jahanara Kabir considers the work of hiphop dancer and choreographer Shailesh Bahoran to articulate how movement and dance can suture together histories of migration.
Ananya Jahanara Kabir considers the work of hiphop dancer and choreographer Shailesh Bahoran to articulate how movement and dance can suture together histories of migration.
Can you recall your earliest gesture? Perhaps not consciously, but traces of these first attempts to orient our bodies in space linger in our everyday experiences.
The treatment of the military subject in Shakespeare’s Roman plays complicates early modern cultural understandings of the material aspects of militant nostalgia. Shakespeare inherits a partial and objectified Roman military figure linked to trophies and armor, and this figure negotiates the early modern English playgoer's relationship to his glorious, unattainable Roman past.