Thursday, November 17, 6:30-8:30pm
Dancing Around Race – Cultivating Racial Equity and Absolute Belonging
Utilizing a decolonial approach and using tools from Dancing Around Race, a community engagement social practice that challenges systemic racial inequity, Gerald Casel offers a workshop that reflects their ongoing research on race and racism in dance. Through candid conversations along with movement provocations, participants will be asked to explore their relationships to power, social position, and where and how they exist within systems and institutions of dance education, performance, and production. They will also be asked to share something about their dance training and experience (and teachers), reflecting on the ancestral legacies they hold. Those who attend will also be encouraged to develop an embodied manifesto that aligns ongoing, lasting actions with values of equity and absolute belonging.