Mariama Diagne stands under an eggshell-colored staircase in front of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Cultures) in Berlin. She is wearing a black blazer and a buttoned-up blouse with pink, orange and yellow color gradients underneath. Her skin is pigmented medium brown, her black hair is shoulder-length and wavy. Seen from the body on the right, the hair exposes the right ear, the left is covered. She is wearing transparent creole earrings. Her gaze is directed towards the camera, her mouth closed in a smile.
Photo Carolin Seeliger

Mariama Diagne

Mariama Diagne (Dr. phil.) is a dance scholar in the collaborative research center 1512 Intervening Arts at the Free University of Berlin. With German-Senegalese heritage, she is a classically academically trained dancer and has a practice as a dramaturge and outside eye for contemporary stage artists at among others the Ballhaus Naunynstraße in Berlin. In her research, she uses (Afro-)diasporic and anti-colonial perspectives to re-read cultural histories and their social positioning in the canon and present discourse of the performing arts. Inscribed procedures of art and cultural analysis are re-read and re-evaluated in collaborative dialogues, also in her own texts, in an interweaving of cultural practices of fantasy, theory and non-linear historiography.