This summer I was invited to join Dance/USA as part of the American delegation at the Internationale Tanzmesse NRW, a biennial international dance festival and conference in Düsseldorf, Germany. I […]
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In Practice: Book Review: Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora by Joanna Dee Das
The first time I met dance historian Joanna Dee Das was either at an event she curated when she was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Dance Studies at Stanford or […]
Dimensions Dance Theater: Four Decades Strong
The City of Oakland became a hot bed of cultural awareness and political and social activism for the African American community during the 1960’s and 1970’s. As a result, several […]
BRIDGING THE GAPS: Challenges and Opportunities for US-China Cross-Cultural Exchange
WHEN I FIRST VISITED CHINA to perform in the Beijing Dance Festival in 2012, I arrived assuming that modern dance in China was a relatively new, underdeveloped phenomenon. I had no […]
Beyond Aesthetics: Bachata, Politics, Praxis
Originating among the (predominantly Black) rural poor in the Dominican Republic in the latter half of the twentieth century, bachata music and the accompanying dance steps were stigmatized by the sociopolitical elite as vulgar, low-class forms of entertainment unsuitable for polite society.
Kularts & Alleluia Panis: Setting the Stage for Filipinx Diaspora Narratives
In a conversation about how she classifies her artistic practice, she told me that she does not consider her work to be “Philippine” dance, as that would be disrespectful to regional practitioners who undergo rigorous study, practice, and discipline that she as a choreographer and dancer who has livedmost of her life in the US has not undergone…
