Mariama Diagne (Dr. Phil.), is a Berlin based dance scholar and trained dancer (Dance Theatre of Harlem, New York City). As postdoctoral researcher she works at the Collaborative Research Center 1512, Intervening Arts at Freie Universität Berlin. In her project Decolonizing Interventions in Choreographies of the Diaspora she negotiates the canon of art, theory and cultural history with afro/diasporan perspectives. Recent publications include: Schweres Schweben. Qualitäten der gravitas in Pina Bauschs Tanzoper Orpheus und Eurydike (2019); Queering Dance Modernism, Dance Research Journal (2022), and Tanzen Teilen/Sharing Dancing (2022) both as co-editor. She facilitates projects at art institutions (Ballhaus Naunynstr, State Ballet Berlin) and accompanies artists on queer and anticolonial perspectives. She is part of the UNESCO committee for the Intangible Cultural Heritage Germany, and steering board member at the Consortium for National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI4Culture). From 2019-2023 she was president of the German speaking society of dance research (gtf).
At Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Diagne was responsible for the dramaturgy of PATTERNS (2019) by Magda Korsinsky and was part of Ganz Vorn (2023), a meeting of Black people in leadership positions.