Welcome to Contemporary Black Canvas. I am your host, Dr. Pia Deas. On this episode of Contemporary Black Canvas, we are sharing an audio recording entitled “ It’s A Commitment,” an audio recording. This audio piece features esteemed dance scholars Dr. Halifu Osumare and Dr. Brenda Dixon Gottschild. This is part of a larger, artists’ interview series conceptualized and hosted by Margaret Kemp, an Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance at UC Davis, and produced by Alexander Adams. They were kind and generous enough to ask us to share this  recording with Contemporary Black Canvas to include as part of our Black Arts Movement series. For links to the guests and their work, please check our show notes. Please tune in and enjoy.

Scholars

Margaret Kemp

Halifu Osumare

Brenda Dixon Gottschild  

Books

Dancing in Blackness

The Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip Hop

The Black Dancing Body

Black choreographers moving: A national dialogue

Everybody Creative Arts Center

Black Choreography Moving Towards the 21st Century

Digging; The Africanist presence in American performance, dance and other contexts

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