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dancing BLACK together
The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance
5th Bi-Annual Conference
5th Bi-Annual Conference
February 18-20, 2022
Duke University | Durham, NC, USA
celebrating 10 years of CADD!
Duke University | Durham, NC, USA
celebrating 10 years of CADD!
As we can, in person and virtually, we gather to Dance Black Together. What does our coming together reveal? What is in our assembly for carnival, for the Black parades, for protest? How do we care for each other in our dancing together, in homes and streets, on stages and screens? What sorts of rhythms call us toward collective action? How do we contemplate, while being together in motion?
Anchored by critical dialogue and provocative research presentations, the 2022 CADD conference theme dancingBLACKtogether will feature breakout sessions, movement workshops, and film screenings. The convening seeks to center our participation as Africans in diaspora in dance as a resource and method of creative and aesthetic possibility.
Anchored by critical dialogue and provocative research presentations, the 2022 CADD conference theme dancingBLACKtogether will feature breakout sessions, movement workshops, and film screenings. The convening seeks to center our participation as Africans in diaspora in dance as a resource and method of creative and aesthetic possibility.
keynote presenters
Yvonne Daniel, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita of Dance and Afro-American Studies, Smith College |
Veta Goler, Ph.D.
Dance Educator and Historian |
Jasmine Johnson
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania |
Abdel Salaam
Artistic Director, DanceAfrica Artistic Director, Forces of Nature Dance Theatre |
Dianne "Lady Di" Walker
First Lady of Tap |
keynote performance
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URBAN BUSH WOMEN HAIR & OTHER STORIES Friday, February 18, 2021 8-10 PM |
special events
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Dancing Our Africa:
Kariamu Welsh in Memoriam The work of the late Kariamu Welsh centralized the African culture that emerges from the African American experience. Her development of Umfundalai, a contemporary African movement practice, used the gestures, myths, and styling of North American Blacks as a primary resource for its movement vocabularies. Welsh's work speaks to the synergy of possibilities when Black people come together to dance a common movement language. There are countless stories among Umfundalai teachers of how embodying Welsh's Umfundalai empowered them with a specific correspondence to an African continuum. The CADD community, guided by CADD Executive Board member C. Kemal Nance, celebrates Welsh's legacy in this memorial presentation.
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Eleo Pomare's Movement Legacy
Convened by John Perpener
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