Let’s Dance International Festival in partnership with Modern Moves (an ERC-funded project at King’s College, London), and the Cultural Institute at King’s, presents Creolizing Dance in a Global Age: a symposium where dance practitioners, academics, policy makers and funders will share their thoughts and practice on the complex relationship between ‘creolization’ and dance.

Going to the heart of the multi-cultural, multi-lingual Caribbean, Creolizing Dance brings together for the first time in Britain key speakers from North America and the Caribbean: L’Antoinette Stines, Artistic Director of L’Acadco: A United Caribbean Dance Force; Patrick Parson, Artistic Director of Ballet Creole; Gladys M. Francis from Georgia State University; Thomas F. DeFrantz, Duke University; Hilary Brown, programme manager for Culture and Community Development at CARICOM. Also speaking are Roshini Kempadoo, UEL, Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Director of Modern Moves, King’s College, and Pawlet Brookes, Artistic Director of Serendipity. The conference will examine the meaning, relevance, impact and potential of ‘Creolizing Dance’: dance that creolizes, and the creolizing of dance. Through a unique combination of practice and conversation between academics and dancers, it will reflect on and reveal the spectrum of inter-racial, inter-ethnic, and sometimes paradoxical collaborations and affiliations embodied within the dynamics of Caribbean dance.

This event is funded by the Cultural Institute at King’s.

Creolizing of Dance in a Global Age
Wed 21 May
9am
King's College, London
£55/£45 concs Early Bird £40*

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