Afro-Feminist Performance Routes: A Dialogue in Movement

02/14/2024

Looking forward to seeing you soon!

Workshops free and open to the public.
Duke University, Rubenstein Arts Center - unless otherwise noted

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 14
6:15 - 7:30pm | RAC 224
Luciane Ramos Silva - The body in diaspora

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 15
10:20am - 12:50pm | **ARK STUDIO - 14 Epworth Dorm Lane**
LenaBlou and Linda Isabelle François Obas - contemporary Caribbean approaches to choreographic praxis

4:40-5:55pm | RAC 224
Rujeko Dumbutshena - Neo-traditional Zimbabwean Dance

6:15 - 7:45pm | RAC 224
Maya Berry - Afro-Cuban Improvisation Techniques

02/07/2024

Afro-Feminist Performance Routes 2024!
Featuring Maya Berry, Lafabri'K - Lénablou, Rujeko Sarah Dumbutshena, Linda Isabelle Francois, and Luciane Ramos Silva.

Wednesday Feb 14 and Thursday Feb 15 at Duke University , leading up to CADD (cadd-online.org)

Co-convened with Mario LaMothe alongside support and vision from Thomas DeFrantz, Andrea Woods Valdés, Ava LaVonne Vinesett, and Shireen Dickson.

**Afro-Feminist Performance Routes is a focused residency with a cohort of dancer-scholars who continue urgent embodied dialogues around African diaspora dance practices and gender, femininity, womanhood, femme, and feminisms.**

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 14
6:15 - 7:30pm | RAC 224
Luciane Ramos Silva - The body in diaspora

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 15
10:20am - 12:50pm | **ARK STUDIO - 14 Epworth Dorm Lane**
LenaBlou and Linda Isabelle François Obas - contemporary Caribbean approaches to choreographic praxis

4:40-5:55pm | RAC 224
Rujeko Dumbutshena - Neo-traditional Zimbabwean Dance

6:15 - 7:45pm | RAC 224
Maya Berry - Afro-Cuban Improvisation Techniques

02/12/2022

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2022 GATHERING DANCINGblackTOGETHER   Afro-Feminist Performance Routes is a focused residency with a cohort of dancer-scholars who continue urgent embodied dialogues around African diaspora dance practices and gender, femininity, womanhood, femme, and feminisms.   SCHEDULE 2022 **all workshops in ...

02/05/2020

Afro-Feminist Performance Routes, 2018 Gathering:

02/21/2018

The second gathering of "Afro-Feminist Performance Routes" is unforgettable. Dancers and scholars experienced the feminine divine, its in deep, beautiful and enriching nuances by Black women from Guadeloupe, Zimbabwe, Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Barbados and the United States. Thank you to Rujeko Sarah Dumbutshena, Yanique Hume, Léna Blou, Halifu Osumare, Sephora Germain, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Ava LaVonne Vinesset, Mario LaMothe, Dasha Chapman, Andrea E. Woods Valdés, Meccasia Zabriskie, Shireen Dickson and all participants and allies for believing in the power and possibilities of Africanist embodied pedagogies!!! Until next time, be well!

02/17/2018

Today! 9am workshop with Léna Blou, Rujeko Sarah Dumbutshena, and Yanique Hume. 11:15am Writing Black Dance workshop with Halifu Osumare. Then Sephora Germain performs at 7:30pm. All events at Rubenstein Arts Center.