Movements of Change: Dance, Liberation, and the Power of Aesthetics
Channel: Center for Global Ethnography
Date: 2020-10-26

Methods of Protest  | “Movements of Change: Dance, Liberation, and the Power of Aesthetics” 

The performing arts, such as hip hop and dance, are crucial aspects of Black freedom struggles.

In a pre-recorded conversation, Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin describes her own journey as a dancer and historian as she speaks with two dance luminaries and her own mentors in the Bay Area: Joanna Haigood, Artistic Director of Zaccho Dance Theater based in San Francisco, and Colette Eloi, Artistic Director of El Wah Movement Dance Company and Research Group based out of Oakland, California. They each share insights into their method as it relates to place, community connections, oral history, and archival research. They discuss the role of movement within the diaspora, framing dance as a liberatory act and practice.

*A note about the historical chronology referred to in this video. The correct sequence of events is:  American Revolution (1775-1783), Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), American-Civil War (1861-1865), Reconstruction (1863-1877)

For more information about this conversation, visit: https://iriss.stanford.edu/ethnography/black-lives-matter-bay-area

Speakers:
Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin
Doctoral Student, History, Stanford University
https://history.stanford.edu/people/aliyah-dunn-salahuddin

Colette Eloi
Artistic Director, El Wah Movement Dance Company and Research Group
http://www.elwahdancemovement.com
Doctoral Student, Critical Dance Studies, University of California Riverside
https://dance.ucr.edu/phd-students/

Joanna Haigood
Artistic Director, Zaccho Dance Theater
http://www.zaccho.org/?bios_staff-zdt

Event Co-sponsors:
African and African American Studies
The Center for Global Ethnography
The Department of History

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This event is part of Methods of Protest: Engaging Global Black Lives Matter Movements, a series of conversations organized by Center for Global Ethnography at Stanford University:
https://iriss.stanford.edu/ethnography/methods-protest