The Dance Program and African & African American Studies (AAAS) will convene a series of events that underscore the reach of diasporic dance humanities in Spring 2017.
January 31, visual artist and choreogrpahic collaborator Lamont Hamilton will visit the Duke campus in an artist residency, sharing work he recently showed at the Studio Museum of Harlem.
February 14, noted historian and theorist of Asian American dance Yutian Wong, Chair of Dance at San Francisco State, will visit Duke, to offer a public lecture and a casual luncheon event aimed at Asian American students interested in the arts.
March 2, choreographer Jennifer Harge will offer a work-in-progress showing of a collaboration with artist Duane Lee Holland, Jr.; Harge and Holland will also visit courses and meet with students on campus to discuss the dimensions of “black art” that drive their explorations.
April 11, the leading researcher of Afro-Peruvian artistic exchanges, Luis Paredes, will be in residence at Duke to offer a research lecture and participate in a casual event with students.
April 20, professor Diyah Larasati, Chair of the Dance Program at the University of Minnesota, will offer a research lecture before she keynotes the Choreography and Corporeality working group conference, “The Future of Reenactment,” April 20-22 at Duke.