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This chapter examines the entanglements of art and migration pursuing different constellations as results of the Atlantic slave trade, the Holocaust, and the course of contemporary global flight and (forced) migration. We focus on long term diasporic, post-migrant conditions. Shedding light on the specific historical situation of the post-WWII US (post)migrant society with its close relationship between the African American Diaspora and the Jewish-American Diaspora, we investigate contemporary configurations of global migration and Pan African communities. To examine these historical and conceptual interrelations we will revisit Anna Halprin's workshops for her performance Ceremony of Us (1969) and crossread it with contemporary performative work, based on the concept of Decolonial Healing as it has been developed during the 2010s, amongst others by Tabita Rezaire. Both artists assume that traumatic experiences of racism, colonialism, and diaspora are inscribed within the body and can be transformed through somatic practices.

Keywords: Anna Halprin and Ceremony of Us (1969) ; Bioenergetics and polarity therapy ; body memory and critical trauma therapy ; Civil Rights Movement ; Decolonial Healing ; embodied lab ; Embodied performance documentation ; Esalen ; Feldenkrais (Moshe Feldenkrais) ; Fritz Perls ; Gestalt Therapy ; Historical and collective Trauma ; Human Potential Movement ; Kemetic Yoga ; Multidimensional Memory ; Rolfing (Ida Rolf) ; somatic art practice ; stress release ; structural slow Violence ; Studio Watts ; Tabita Rezaire and MerKaBa for the Hoeteps ; technoshamanism ; trauma therapy ; Workshops as artistic/somatic practice

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Reparative Workshop and Body Practices in the Field of Art, Diaspora, and Migration 1969 and 2020
Intellect , 339 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789389616_23
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