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.