Collegium for African Diaspora Dance (CADD) - HOME
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.
Dancing the African Diaspora - Dance Program
2014年3月4日 · Samba and tap dance. Line dance and hip hop. Capoeira and twerking. These are all dance styles that have their origins in the African diaspora and were topics for the scholars, teachers and artists that attended the Dancing the African Diaspora: Theories of Black Performance conference at Duke University.
Dance, Diasporic - Encyclopedia.com
African diaspora dance is part of an African cultural continuum that has, from the beginning, altered American dance from within. It developed out of the circumstances of slavery, the socioeconomic marginalization of African Americans, and the presence of European influences.
A Dance Through Black History Across the African Diaspora - KQED
2021年2月16日 · Katherine Dunham and the Dances of the African Diaspora Changing Lives. The international dance icon brought dances from the African diaspora to stages around the world, then made a home in East St. Louis.
Collegium for African Diaspora Dance (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.
Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora
2017年4月20日 · From the New Negro Movement to the Civil Rights Movement to the Black Power Movement and beyond, Dunham articulated a place for dance in the fight against racial inequality and emphasized a diasporic perspective.
Dance of the African Diaspora - Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive
Browse the full collection of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive videos by Artist, Genre, and Era. Test your dance knowledge with our Guess Game, then challenge your friends! Access a series of multimedia essays offering pathways to hundreds of rare videos, photos, programs, and more!
Dance in the African Diaspora - SpringerLink
“Dance” in the African diaspora is defined most often within its relationship to “music”; dance is music and music is dance for many African and African-derived populations. Dance/music, then, is that dimension of human performance that involves a relationship between rhythmic musical sound and purposeful, expressive movement.
Reading gesture: Katherine Dunham, the Dunham Technique, and …
2019年5月6日 · This paper examines how the African diasporic dance works of anthropologist, dancer, and choreographer Katherine Dunham has endured over time through both archival intervention and through Dunham’s dance pedagogy, the Dunham Technique.
Introduction: dance in Africa and beyond: creativity and identity …
2019年10月25日 · With this special issue, we argue that the study of dance and music provides an important window into the myriad creative ways in which people in Africa and in the African diaspora deal with problematic situations, generate new artistic forms, engage with questions of ethics, and carve out spaces in which they experiment with novelty and ...