This thesis presents original ethnographic research on embodiment, creativity, and relationality in a Haitian folklorique dance troupe in Montreal, Canada. The research explores the ways that the dance troupe Racines carries forward their roots practice, with tenacity and love, in the face of racial discrimination and stigmatization. It looks at the how the joy, exhilaration, and challenge of roots folklorique dancing converses with memory, belonging, identification, and liberation. I discuss the social dimensions of dance practice and performance, the harmonious and dissonant relationships entangled with roots dance. Relations - moments of intersection, gathering, and sharing - generate spaces that are celebratory, creative, and cathartic....
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)Dance appears often in Anglophone Caribbean...
The performance documentation for this research project can be accessed via links to an external web...
This thesis involves the development of a methodology that when assessed hermeneutically, provides a...
The anthropological study of dance is particularly relevant to scholars who work on theories of embo...
Haitian music has been influenced by the people who lived on the island from the native before the C...
In this dissertation, I examine specifically how and why historical narratives of African American t...
This practice-led research enquires into how ideologies of community as commonality have informed th...
Dissertation (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2010The first purpose of this study is to descr...
This document is the graduate research developed from re/living: equity and inclusion, becoming. As ...
With music coming out of Paris at the turn of the twentieth century as its primary focus, specifical...
Kiskeya Reimagined brings together Dominican and Haitian communities to watch a film documentary on ...
Kiskeya Reimagined brings together Dominican and Haitian communities to watch a film documentary on ...
This paper describes the experiences of exploitation and liberation for neo burlesque performers us...
This dissertation explores and analyzes What is Black dance and the role that Black dance plays in t...
My thesis will use runaway slave ads collected from a daily newspaper printed in the French colony o...
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)Dance appears often in Anglophone Caribbean...
The performance documentation for this research project can be accessed via links to an external web...
This thesis involves the development of a methodology that when assessed hermeneutically, provides a...
The anthropological study of dance is particularly relevant to scholars who work on theories of embo...
Haitian music has been influenced by the people who lived on the island from the native before the C...
In this dissertation, I examine specifically how and why historical narratives of African American t...
This practice-led research enquires into how ideologies of community as commonality have informed th...
Dissertation (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2010The first purpose of this study is to descr...
This document is the graduate research developed from re/living: equity and inclusion, becoming. As ...
With music coming out of Paris at the turn of the twentieth century as its primary focus, specifical...
Kiskeya Reimagined brings together Dominican and Haitian communities to watch a film documentary on ...
Kiskeya Reimagined brings together Dominican and Haitian communities to watch a film documentary on ...
This paper describes the experiences of exploitation and liberation for neo burlesque performers us...
This dissertation explores and analyzes What is Black dance and the role that Black dance plays in t...
My thesis will use runaway slave ads collected from a daily newspaper printed in the French colony o...
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)Dance appears often in Anglophone Caribbean...
The performance documentation for this research project can be accessed via links to an external web...
This thesis involves the development of a methodology that when assessed hermeneutically, provides a...