Dancing the African Diaspora Justice Perspectives
Saturday, October 2 at 11am, the SLIPPAGE 2021 Fall Series presents "Dancing the African Diaspora: Justice Perspectives" with Dr. Nyama McCarthy-Brown and Dr. John Perpener III, two thought-leaders from The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance (CADD). They offer urgent and emergent information and analyses of African diaspora dance and its continuing possibilities during a live taping for a Black Dance digital resource in development. Reservations required; lunch provided!
Dr. Nyama McCarthy-Brown is an Assistant Professor of Dance Pedagogy and Community Engagement at The Ohio State University. McCarthy-Brown an active educator, scholar, and artist. She has written numerous articles in academic publications. In 2017, her book, Dance Pedagogy for a Diverse World, was released to great acclaim. New York City Department of Education purchased over two hundred copies of her book to ensure all dance teachers in the district have one. McCarthy-Brown teaches dance education and contemporary dance with Africanist underpinnings grounded the celebration of all movers. Her work has been sought out nationally to consult and lead workshops on diversifying curriculum for organizations such as: San Francisco Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Enrich Chicago, Dance Educators Coalition, and Rutgers Dance Department.
John O. Perpener III is a dance historian and independent scholar based in Charlotte, NC. Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University; MFA in Dance from Southern Methodist University. His book, African-American Concert Dance: The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond, was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2001. He also served as a primary consultant and commentator for the PBS documentary on African-American dance, Free to Dance. As a dancer and choreographer, he worked with the Hartford Ballet Company, the D.C. Black Repertory Dance Company, and the Maryland Dance Theater. More recently, he
performed in Visible, co-choreographed by Nora Chipaumire and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. He received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2012-2013) for his project on the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. And, in 2014-2015, he was a Fellow at New York's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
