Provoking Hope, Dancing Beyond Potential | Ananya Chatterjea | TEDxUMN

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. What is the potential of dance to demonstrate social injustice? To unleash latent energy? In this talk combined with powerful performances, Ananya Chatterjea shows us how dance can provoke hope and help us surpass our own potential.

Ananya Chatterjea is a choreographer and scholar who envisions her work in dance as a "call to action" with particular focus on women artists of color. She is the Artistic Director of Ananya Dance Theatre, and Professor in the Department of Theater Arts and Dance, University of Minnesota. She is the proud recipient of a 2012 McKnight Choreography Fellowship and a 2011 Guggenheim Choreography Fellowship. Her most recent work, Mohona, premiered to standing ovations as part of the O'Shaughnessey Theater's Women of Substance series, and was remarked on as "fluid as water...demands attention, action, and the abandonment of complacency" (Star Tribune, 9/22/13).

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