Dancing the Diaspora: Dances of the Afro-Caribbean and American Worlds

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Upper division seminar that traces a genealogy of dance and choreographic practice from West Africa throughout the Afro-Caribbean during the transatlantic slave trade and into the Southern, Midwestern and Northeastern states of the U.S. We will study the Africanist presence in the body from Brazil to Cuba to New Orleans to New York City.