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COLLEGIUM FOR AFRICAN DIASPORA DANCE
Virtual Event BLACK VOICESIN DANCE STUDIES
September 26 | October 17 | November 7 |
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The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance joins the Dance Studies Association to co-host a program series exploring the politics, aesthetics, and alchemy of African diasporic dance.
CADD+DSA collaborative programming includes lectures, cross-generational discussions, and creative explorations into Black dance (studies). Events consider the ways that Black dance affirms, confers, cleaves, or potentially binds Black lives. Rooted in our diverse histories, discussions are also invested in the possibility of mobilizing experience/technique/technology into a possible 'right now' and future of/for Black people themselves. |
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September 26 11 AM EST | Curated highlights from the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance February 2020 conference, Fluid Black::Dance Back. CADD Executive Board member Carl Paris moderates presentations that consider black dance/cultural futures where tradition, fluidity, and inter-relationality are mutually inclusive. These ideas are illustrated by Imani Ma'at AnkhmenRa Amen sharing and discussing her holistic and culturally responsive teaching methodologies for University of Michigan’s first West African dance class; excerpts from tap dance artist-scholar Michael J. Love’s "#SampledMixedAndRemixed" series of real-time experiments with genre, liveness, mediation, and temporality; and Woodshed Dance’s collective platforms for black bodies in motion.
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October 17 11 AM EST | “Connectivity”: Always provoking foundational Black Dance scholar Dr. Katrina Hazzard-Donald discusses her current research projects and their relationships to black agency and the surreality of 2020, with an extended audience Q&A. Woodshed Dance guides an embodied invocation. |
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November 7 11 AM EST | Marcea Daiter shows excerpts from her interviews with Talley Beatty about the political imagery in his choreography; Dr. John Perpener contextualizes the work of Beatty and other contemporary Black Dance artists as he charts throughlines of Black dance as political action across the Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights, Black Power, Women's, and, Black Lives Matter Movements. Woodshed Dance guides an embodied invocation. |
ABOUT CADD
The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance (CADD) is an egalitarian community of scholars and artists committed to exploring, promoting, and engaging African diaspora dance as a resource and method of aesthetic identity. Through conferences, roundtables, publications and public events, we aim to facilitate interdisciplinary inquiry that captures the variety of topics, approaches, and methods that might constitute Black Dance Studies. A diverse gathering of dance scholars and community members, The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance was conceptualized by its founding members and first convened in April 2012 as the African Diaspora Dance Research Group at Duke University.
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Founding Executive Board:
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