Embodied Dialogues V: Memory Work and Body Landscaping — Ancestral Practices in African Brazilian Dance

Masterclass with Tamara Williams and Moving Spirits, Tuesday, 4/7/26 4:30-5:55 PM RAC Studio 224.

Embodied Dialogues V: Memory Work and Body Landscaping - Ancestral Practices in African Brazilian Dance residency is a collaboration between Duke University Professor of Dance, Ava LaVonne Vinesett, and UNC-Charlotte College of Arts + Architecture's Associate Professor of Dance, Tamara Williams. Now, in our fifth year, our intergenerational group of artists and scholar-practitioners centers Black memory as an embodied, ethical, and collective practice. This residency understands memory not as static history, but as labor carried in the body and shaped by land, ritual, and lived experience. Body landscaping names the ways movement practices reconfigure how memory is held, transmitted, and returned-across African Brazilian dance traditions and landscapes animated by ancestral power, defiant joy, and the pleasure of return.

Full schedule:

- Tuesday, 4/7/26 4:30-5:55 PM RAC Studio 224, Masterclass with Tamara Williams and Moving Spirits guests

- Tuesday, 4/7/26 6:00-8:00 PM RAC Studio 202, Music/Song/Memory Work Tamara Williams and Moving Spirits guests

- Wednesday, 4/8/26 6:15-7:45 PM RAC Studio 224, Masterclass with Tamara Willams and Moving Spirits guests

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