Episode 6:

Season 1 Finale

with OreOluwa Badaki & Azsaneé Truss

OreOluwa (left) and Azsaneé (right). Photo taken by  Moira McCavana.

• Zine: About Groovin’ Griot

https://www.flipsnack.com/azsaneet/groovin-griot-zine/full-view.html 

• Playlist: “Groove With Us” https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YD9lDgl1QgcGTBGa9ALKj?si=cICHQsbsRLeVMNKQr5DP6A&pi=u-qqh9TcOMSpir 

• Profile: OreOluwa’s LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/oreoluwa-badaki-93596912 

• More on OreOluwa’s Brazil project: https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/news/rio/badaki-q-a 

• Profile: Azsaneé’s Website

https://www.azsaneetruss.com 

• Podcast: The CAMRA Archives https://open.spotify.com/show/6CHxxfgQ9NZJM8y5KKw5Cp?si=gHEBtMHGSq25Ot86ctOJUg 

Episode 5:

Improvisation as Tradition and Technology

with Dr. S Ama Wray

S. Ama Wray. Photo from UCI Website

• Profile: University of California, Irvine: https://dance.arts.uci.edu/dr-s-ama-wray 

• Major Initiatives

• Embodiology: https://www.embodiology.com/dr-wray 

• AI 4 Afrika: https://ai4afrika.com/

• The Africana Institute for Creation Recognition, and Elevation (AICRE): https://sites.uci.edu/aicre/#:~:text=The%20Africana%20Institute%20for%20Creation,so%20that%20people%20of%20African   

• Article by Dr. Sela Adjei about Kopeyia School Visit: https://www.gringhana.com/grin-blog/mep6t94c060d36ddnhx6x6xwz1i5wt 

Episode 4:

Dancing the Diasporas

with Dr. Lela Aisha Jones

Lela Aisha Jones (left) and Patricia “Peaches” Jones (right). Photo from Flyground Website

• Profile: Bryn Mawr University: https://www.brynmawr.edu/inside/people/lela-aisha-jones 

• More about Dr. Jones: Pew Center Q&A: https://www.pewcenterarts.org/post/fellows-friday-qa-choreographer-and-movement-artist-lela-aisha-jones 

• Native Portals:

• Native Portals Film Trailer: https://vimeo.com/user5822523 

• Native Portals Excerpt: https://vimeo.com/208010849 

• Intercultural Journeys Native Portals Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frU4lM-VZac 

• Native Portals In the Process: https://vimeo.com/user5822523 

• Other Performance Projects:

• Revivals of Blackness: https://revivalsofblackness.com/ 

• Modupúe | Ibaye: The Philadelphia Yoruba Performance Project, Media Archive Exhibition: https://www.interculturaljourneys.org/yoruba 

Episode 3:

Histories of African Dance Systems

with Dr. Ofosuwa Abiola

Ofosuwa Abiola-Tamba (left) and Monica James (right). Photo by Morgan Miller/Virginia Folklife Program.

• Profile: Howard University https://profiles.howard.edu/ofosuwa-abiola 

• Website: Dr. Abiola’s Professional Website: https://www.oabiola.org/ 

• Video: Howard University Department of Theatre Arts Dance Program Introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLvm4fqwtsI 

• Book: Fire Under My Feet History, Race, and Agency in African Diaspora Dance edited by Ofosuwa M. Abiola https://www.routledge.com/Fire-Under-My-Feet-History-Race-and-Agency-in-African-Diaspora-Dance/MAbiola/p/book/9780367713331 

• Book: History Dances: Chronicling the History of Traditional Mandinka Dance by Ofosuwa M. Abiola https://routledge.com/History-Dances-Chronicling-the-History-of-Traditional-Mandinka-Dance/Abiola/p/book/9780367664558 

• Journal: Evoke: A Historical, Theoretical, and Cultural Analysis of Africana Arts; Volume 1 Issue 1 (2019) https://shorturl.at/wg4YP 

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Episode 2:

Unbounding the body through dance

with Dr. Deborah Thomas

Tambufest 2019. St Thomas, Jamaica. Photo from the Center for Experimental Ethnography.

• Profile: University of Pennsylvania Department of Anthropology https://anthropology.sas.upenn.edu/people/deborah-a-thomas 

• Website: Center for Experimental Ethnography: https://www.ceepenn.org/

• Description of Tambufest: https://www.ceepenn.org/conversations/tambufest-2019 

• Article: “Afterpresence: The Unbounded Body by Deborah A. Thomas  https://americanethnologist.org/online-content/collections/back-to-the-present/afterpresence-the-unbounded-body/ 

• Book: Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair by Deborah A. Thomas: https://www.dukeupress.edu/political-life-in-the-wake-of-the-plantation 

• Book: Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica by Deborah A. Thomas https://www.dukeupress.edu/exceptional-violence 

Episode 1:

Dance as “Reparative Art”

with Dr. Jasmine Blanks-Jones 

Ritual of Remembrance procession at Johns Hopkins University, led by Urban Foli drummer Menes Yahudah and Kali-Ahset Amen. Photo taken by Will Kirk.

• Profile: JHU Center for Social Concern https://studentaffairs.jhu.edu/socialconcern/staff/executive-director/ 

• Website: B4Youth Theater https://www.b4youththeatre.org/ 

• Article: “It Takes a Person” Youth Activism, Public Health, and Citizenship Performance During Liberia’s Ebola Epidemic by Jasmine L. Blanks Jones and Silas N. Juaquellie https://shorturl.at/lzI47 

• Event Synopsis: 200 Years of Returns https://www.americantheatre.org/2023/02/24/200-years-that-brought-american-and-liberian-artists-together/ 

• Event Synopsis: Reparative Arts in Community Engagement Conference https://studentaffairs.jhu.edu/socialconcern/the-inaugural-race-conference-everything-you-need-to-know/ 

• Event Synopsis: Ritual of Remembrance https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/billie-holiday/2022/02/04/rituals-of-remembrance/