BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.7//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news139@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20180313T154823 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20180411T161500 SUMMARY:Lesley Braun: "Dancing Visibility\, Virtue\, & Virtuosity: Women\, Work\, and Dance in Kinshasa\, DRC" DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Dr. Lesley Nicole Braun\, Institute for Asian a nd African Studies\, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin \\r\\nYoung women in Kinshasa\, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo\, despite their political and economic marginalization\ , have been making their presence felt as social actors in the realm of p opular dance music. Congolese artists like Werrason pack stadiums across Europe and Africa\, performing with bands composed of male singers\, musi cians\, and dancers. Women\, save for a few exceptions\, are limited to b eing dancers (danseuses) and occupy the lowest rung in band social hierarc hies. Despite their low status\, danseuses’ dance performance is vital t o live concerts\, as it helps attract a paying audience—one that demands a spectacle. \\r\\nNot only does popular dance express young people’s urban experience\, popular concert dancers have come to embody and repres ent social change. In particular\, danseuses visibly participate in the p roduction of popular culture\, and can be seen as performing some of the moral anxieties associated with women in the workplace. \\r\\nDanseuses are dynamic “movers” par excellence\, testing and challenging the mor al landscape\, thereby unwittingly shedding light on the modern Congolese condition in all its complexity. This ambivalent status is not simply th e product of tensions between “traditional” and Western values filter ing into Congo\, transmitted via previous colonial and current women “e mpowerment” initiatives. It is also the result of economic uncertainty and evolving Pentecostal discourses about women’s sexuality as a source of danger and retribution for men. This talk will consider how local not ions of visibility\, virtuosity\, and virtue dance together to reveal the “double binds” that have become an everyday part of life for young w omen in Kinshasa. \\r\\nLesley Braun specializes in African popular dance performance\, with a focus on Kinshasa\, Democratic Republic of Congo. She is interested in the ways in which dance\, in its embodied and symbo lic forms\, participates in the construction of an urban experience. She obtained her BA from McGill University\, Montreal\, and a combined MA i n performance studies\, anthropology\, and communications from Concordia University\, Montreal. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Université de Montréal. X-ALT-DESC:

Presentation by Dr. Lesley Nicole Braun\, Institute for Asia n and African Studies\, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

\nYoung women in Kinshasa\, capital of the Democra tic Republic of Congo\, despite their political and economic marginalizat ion\, have been making their presence felt as social actors in the realm of popular dance music. Congolese artists like Werrason pack stadiums acr oss Europe and Africa\, performing with bands composed of male singers\, musicians\, and dancers. Women\, save for a few exceptions\, are limited to being dancers (danseuses) and occupy the lowest rung in band soc ial hierarchies. Despite their low status\, danseuses’ dance perf ormance is vital to live concerts\, as it helps attract a paying audience —one that demands a spectacle. \nNot only does popular dance express yo ung people’s urban experience\, popular concert dancers have come to em body and represent social change. In particular\, danseuses visibl y participate in the production of popular culture\, and can be seen as p erforming some of the moral anxieties associated with women in the workpl ace. \nDanseuses are dynamic “movers” par excellence\, testing and challenging the moral landscape\, thereby unwittingly shedding light on the modern Congolese condition in all its complexity. This ambivalent status is not simply the product of tensions between “traditional” a nd Western values filtering into Congo\, transmitted via previous colonia l and current women “empowerment” initiatives. It is also the result of economic uncertainty and evolving Pentecostal discourses about women ’s sexuality as a source of danger and retribution for men. This talk w ill consider how local notions of visibility\, virtuosity\, and virtue da nce together to reveal the “double binds” that have become an everyda y part of life for young women in Kinshasa. \nLesley Braun specia lizes in African popular dance performance\, with a focus on Kinshasa\, Democratic Republic of Congo. She is interested in the ways in which dan ce\, in its embodied and symbolic forms\, participates in the constructi on of an urban experience. She obtained her BA from McGill University\, Montreal\, and a combined MA in performance studies\, anthropology\, and communications from Concordia University\, Montreal. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Université de Montréal. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20180411T174500 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR