Mariama Diagne (Dr.), dancer and dance scholar, is a research associate in the Collaborative Research Center 1512 "Intervening Arts" (DFG) at Freie Universität Berlin. She is dedicated to re-readings of cultural and dance historiography in the context of the canon and present of diasporic as well as anti-colonial perspectives. As a dramaturge, she accompanies artists with postcolonial perspectives, including at Ballhaus Naunynstraße. She is chairwoman of the board of the Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung (gtf).