Narratives in Black British Dance (eBook)

Adesola Akinleye is Senior Dance Lecturer at Middlesex University, UK. She is a practice-based scholar and choreographer, living transnationally and writing and creating performance work internationally.

1. Narratives in Black British Dance – An Introduction.2. “I don’t do Black-dance, I am a Black dancer”; Namron.3. Dance Britannia: the impact of global shifts on dance in Britain; Christy Adair and Ramsay Burt.4. Negotiating African Diasporic identity in Dance: Brown Bodies Creating and Existing in the British Dance Industry; Tia-Monique Uzor.5. Tracing the evolution of black representation in ballet and the impact on black British dancers today; Sandie Bourne.6. In-the-betweeness: Decolonising and re-inhabiting our dancing; Adesola Akinleye and Helen Kindred.7. Trails of Ado: Kokuma’s Cultural Self-Defense; Thea Barnes.8. Moving tu Balance: An African Holistic Dance as a vehicle for personal development from a Black British perspective; Sandra Golding.9. ‘Why I am not a fan of the Lion King: Ethically-informed Approaches to the Teaching and Learning of South African Dance Forms in Higher Education in the United Kingdom; Sarahleigh Castelyn.10. Performativity of Body Painting: Symbolic Ritual as Diasporic Identity; Chikukwango Cuxima-Zwa.11. Dancehall: a Continuity of Spiritual, Corporeal Practice in Jamaican Dance; H Patten.12. Our Ethiopian Connection: Embodied Ethiopian Culture as a tool in Urban-Contemporary Choreography; RAS Mikey (Michael) Courtney.13. Reflections: Snapshots of dancing home, 1985, 2010 and 2012; Hopal Romans.14. Battling Under Britannia’s Shadow: UK Jazz Dancing in the 1970s and ‘80s; Jane Carr.15. Caribfunk Technique: A new feminist/ womanist futuristic technology in Black dance studies in Higher Education; A’Keitha Carey.16. More Similarities than Differences: Searching for New Pathways; Beverley Glean & Rosie Lehan.17. Epistemology of the weekend: Youth dance theatre; Hopal Romans, Adesola Akinleye, & Michael Joseph.18. Transatlantic Voyages: Then and Now; Anita Gonzalez.