The second of 10 differently themed performance series and journals, aiming to invigorate and make globally visible Los Angeles’s performance art community. Looks at the people and agencies that make space for performance artists and dancers to meet, experiment, and dance together in LA.
The second of 10 differently themed performance series and journals, aiming to invigorate and make globally visible Los Angeles’s performance art community. Looks at the people and agencies that make space for performance artists and dancers to meet, experiment, and dance together in LA.
Considering how blackness is imagined in and through performance, the contributors address topics including flight as a persistent theme in African American aesthetics, the circulation of minstrel tropes in Liverpool and in Afro-Mexican settlements in Oaxaca, and the reach of hip-hop politics as people around the world embrace the music and dance.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)