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Fantasies of Ito Michio

Fantasies of Ito Michio

Fantasies of Ito Michio

Center for East Asian Studies | College of Arts and Humanities | School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies Wednesday, April 16, 2025 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, PAC 1815

Fantasy is a strategy—of individual survival, but also of historiography, especially when the archive holds silences, mis-directions and fabrication. Fantasies of Ito Michio narrates the transnational career of Japanese modern dancer Ito Michio as a story of fantasy-making, a strategy by which Ito made himself into an international success and maintained a sense of self-continuity across experiences of war, racialization and imperialism. This talk provides an overview of the book, and offers a discussion of what performance research might look like when a scholar is faced not with archival paucity or erasure, but rather, an abundance—of fiction, if not fact.

Add to Calendar 04/16/25 14:30:00 04/16/25 15:45:00 America/New_York Fantasies of Ito Michio

Fantasy is a strategy—of individual survival, but also of historiography, especially when the archive holds silences, mis-directions and fabrication. Fantasies of Ito Michio narrates the transnational career of Japanese modern dancer Ito Michio as a story of fantasy-making, a strategy by which Ito made himself into an international success and maintained a sense of self-continuity across experiences of war, racialization and imperialism. This talk provides an overview of the book, and offers a discussion of what performance research might look like when a scholar is faced not with archival paucity or erasure, but rather, an abundance—of fiction, if not fact.

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Jyana S. Browne
jsbrowne@umd.edu